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Kitchen Tip Tuesdays: Using whole chickens

I love using whole chickens! My oven-roasted chicken is a favorite of Joshua's and it's so easy (5 minutes to season, and a cozy 2-3 hours to bake and make the house smell wonderful!).

We almost always have some leftover chicken meat from the roasted chicken, which I chop and freeze for casseroles later. (Farmhouse Chicken is a comforting winter favorite!)

The leftover chicken broth makes yummy gravy, soup stock, or homemade condensed cream of chicken soup.

Just Jane has a great photo tutorial about how she uses her whole chickens

For less than $5, Jane got:

7.5 quarts of chicken stock
1 nice-sized bowl of chicken salad
1 large chicken sandwich
3-4 cups leftover chicken

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thanks

Thanks for the link to your homemade cream of chicken soup! I use that soup a lot for different things! :)

Thanks for hosting kitchen tips every week! I love finding new recipes and tips to use in my kitchen!

Sonshine
http://glimpseofsonshine.blogspot.com/

Wow! Thanks for mentioning

Wow! Thanks for mentioning me, Tammy.
I do love to cook a whole chicken. You just get so much more meat for the price. I'll have to try your farmhouse chicken & the condenced cream of chicken soup! I have a few recipes that I use cream of chicken or mushroom soup.
Thanks again for the link! I bet I'll get a lot of hits today. LOL :)

Whole Chickens

I am able to get lots of different meals out of a whole chicken, it is so economical for big families.
Ton
http://thehappyhousewife.com

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I do the same with turkeys!!

I do the same with turkeys!! Where we live you occasionally get a free turkey if you spend a certain amount on food (which we always do due to our family size) So i cut it up and use the breast meat to make breaded/fried turkey slices or cube it up and use it in casseroles. The back and wings of the turkey get made into soup and the meat removed from the bone and thrown back into the soup or made into a casserole. The legs of the turkey gat roasted and made into a nice turkey dinner with mashed potatoes etc.
Even with our family size of 11 we get several meals out of one turkey!
Tereza

mmm

I like to season my chicken (google "sticky chicken") and put it in the crock pot.

When it's done, I take all the bones, the cooking juices, throw in some raw carrots and celery and any leftover veggies as well as some garlic, onion and seasonings then I top the crockpot off with water and leave it to cook overnight.

leftover chicken gets chopped up and either used for chicken salad or measured into 2c portions, placed in freezerbags and frozen for another time.

I've never seen a condensed soup recipe before and since I *just* made a batch of stock last night and happen to have 2c left over, I'm going to have to try this out later today. Thanks!!

Thank you!

Thank you so much for posting this today. I am new to your site and haven't had a chance to search around yet. My daughter was recently diagnosed with a milk allergy, so no cream of anything for our house now, but with a recipe to make it on my own, I can substitute another milk, ie. soy or rice for it. Yay!! I wasn't sure how I would live without my favorite comfort food of chicken and rice...

Thanks so much!!
Cris

Coffee Cubes

Sorry about my link above; I did not edit it very well! Coffee cubes have nothing to do with JCPenny. :)

WEIRD!

That is SO WEIRD! I was just logging on to your site to look up your recipe for roasting a whole chicken....and it just happened to be your Kitchen Tip for the day! I have roasted it this way before and it turns out so tender and wonderful. I forgot the oven temperature, so I was going to look it up and there it was on the home page.

Great tip!

We do the same thing! It's amazing how much cheaper a whole chicken is and it can be used in so many ways.

Kind da has to do with turkey or chicken

Durning the holidays I always make and have stuffing left over..... Now my family of 6 eats it no matter what they love it. But this year I thought I would try something different and I don't have a blog (but enjoy reading everyone else's! I will share here what I did with stuffing that was a huge hit.

I rolled my stuffing into balls,
then rolled them in seasoned bread crumbs (made from leftover bread seasoned and toasted in the oven)
Fried them until they had a crunchy outside. and let them drain on paper sacks.

Then I took the left over cranberry sauce and blended with nuts ( I used peacan b/c I have a tree and they are free) It was my dip! If you don't make your own cranberry sauce thats fine the canned stuff works just as well as the home made.

Hubby said that it was a little thick so next time I will add a splash of orange Juice to thin it out.

My family loved it and are begging to have it again at christmas. I hope you find it as enjoying as my family did... Amy P.

family favorite

We tried your farmhouse chicken a while ago and loved it!! I made it with leftover turkey for some company a few weeks ago, and they couldn't get enough. I'll be making a large whole chicken tomorrow when my dad comes over, and my husband knows that roasted chicken one day means farmhouse chicken is comming soon(and chicken 'n dumplings will follow soon after!)!

Blessings,
Amanda

I haven't done fried chicken

I haven't done fried chicken for a long time because a good qualitie one is soooooooooooooooo expensive... we can't afford it...
there size isn't enough to feed a family of seven anyway!
(we live in france)
And the bad qualitie meat falls a part, melts in your mouth... but not the right way... We are disgusted... But reading your comments makes me want to eat some!

How are you liking WA?

Did you get snow?

I hope your first winter out west is good!

Are y'all staying warm?

Hi Tammy!
I had seen down here on our local weather that up around Seattle there has been lots of snow and some ice. I do hope your warm and that your heater works well in your new home. Take care and know prayers have been said for you and your family.
Blessing, DeDe

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