Cooking With Cybermyk - Things To Do With a Whole Chicken - For Students and Recession Sufferers

Cybermyk · 28 Mar 2011 at 00:30

So I was in a supermarket last week looking for something to last me a few days and I noticed a whole chicken for £4.77. Then I got to thinking, that'll last a few days if I work it into a few meals...

So I got one and cut it into portions.

First I made stock with the Carcass.

It's just 2l water, carrots, onions, peppercorns, garlic and salt simmered for an hour and a half. I'll come to what I did with it in due course.

I used one of the breasts for my first meal.

First I fried the seasoned chicken and onions in butter and olive oil

Then I put the onions to one side and fried the mushrooms

I made the couscous with a little stock from the Chicken carcass and mixed in the onions and a knob of butter. Add a little salad and the mushrooms and fifteen minutes later, meal one is ready

Cybermyk · 28 Mar 2011 at 00:35

Next meal was a Balti Curry made from the two thighs.

Follow the link for the recipe

Cybermyk · 28 Mar 2011 at 00:46

The next meal my youngest turned up, I was going to make a Parmo but I needed two meals out of one breast.

I fried the chicken with some mushrooms and a chopped bell pepper and boiled some rice. I then got a couple of eggs and mixed them up with a fork.

When the rice was done (10 minutes), I rinsed it in cold water and drained as best I could in a sieve.
Then I fried the egg for a few seconds until it starts to cook and threw in the rice and some spring onion and garlic.
After a few minutes I sprinkled on some soy sauce and added the other ingredients. Chicken fried rice for two

Cybermyk · 28 Mar 2011 at 00:53

Greenlizard0 was nearest

Chopped veg and the legs and wings roasted with rosemary and thyme.

The ingredients are kind of easy to pic out from the pictures.

The result after roasting 190c for an hour.

This meal uses just one cooking tray and a plate

Cybermyk · 28 Mar 2011 at 00:59

I expect you're wondering what I did with the carcass and stock

I pulled all the meat off the bones and made a thick soup with potato, carrots, leeks, celery, onion, garlic and a teaspoon of mixed herbs. It was simmered for an hour.

I made it on the first day and froze it. Me and my youngest ate it for supper today

Cybermyk · 28 Mar 2011 at 01:26

DB_SamX said:
1 breast is never enough for me either for a main meal. 1.5 or 2 usually hits the spot, depending on what I have with it.

One breast should be enough for one person. Maybe you should just eat a bit more veg with it

Cybermyk · 28 Mar 2011 at 01:28

OldCoals said:
When it is brown it is cook, when it is black it is..............

Only the skin was blackened, It was really crunchy and sweet from the butter and garlic

Cybermyk · 28 Mar 2011 at 01:43

Ahleckz said:
I disagree, whilst your first dish does look good it is dominated by the rice. The chicken should be the main attraction. Plus, you didn't say how you seasoned it. Was it just S&P? I recommend a herb crust.

Damn this thread, I keep coming back into it and scrolling through the pictures and getting hungry!

Don't be fooled by that picture, the plate is huge, there's 125g of couscous there (not rice) and the chicken breast is off a medium sized chicken. I just used S&P for seasoning and it was fried in butter, olive oil and garlic.