It’s not pretty, but it tasted good. The last pic represents the original meal (note, old pic not the actual original meal). Three of us ate a dinner made from a whole chicken that was cut up into parts (2 each breasts, thighs, drumsticks and wings). Had one breast, 1 wing and 2 thighs left over. The remaining carcass plus bones from the original meal were used to make chicken broth. For today’s lunch (could have fed 2 people) I took 2 of the thighs and made pieces. Took some fat from the original meal and warmed up the pieces. Added some leftover rice into the skillet, ladled in some homemade broth and a cornstarch slurry to thicken. Look at pics 3,2,1 for the sequence.
I have one breast and a wing leftover. I’ll use that to make chicken tortilla wraps with lettuce, grape tomatoes, some shredded cheese and probably a little ranch dressing. Of course the tortillas will be toasted in a skillet before assembling the wraps.
For one whole chicken (roughly 5 lbs) and some extra ingredients I can get 7 meals doing what I laid out above.
by Wasting_Time1234
3 Comments
Great job on making it stretch! I usually ravenously nibble off bits and eat the skin with my fingers while I put away groceries. It’s hard to have self control in the presence of a fresh chicken tbh. The smell of it makes me too weak.
My Filipino grandma would make a chicken rice porridge with the bones and leftover meat by slow cooking rice in like a 1-6 rice to broth ratio and adding red pepper flakes, chicken bouillon and a ton of garlic and ginger. Perfect “sick” food it’s easy to digest and clears out the sinuses
Ummmm… that looks delicious? I love a whole chicken stretching for a long time. Also, that really does look scrumptious. Nice job!