I buy a roasting chicken about once a month. Like most posters here, the first meal is simply roast chicken with potatoes and a veg or salad. I can usually get 2 more dinners - usually a pasta with chicken, mushrooms, peppers and lots of garlic, maybe a risotto, in a salad in warm weather, or shredded and mixed with lots of onions, tomato, cumin and chili and put over rice. Plus there is at least one lunch for each of us (my husband and myself). Then the bones and wing tips make stock - often frozen to use for risotto with the leftovers of the next chicken.
When she was about 12 one of my nieces wrote an essay for school about how her mother (my sister - then a divorced mother of 4 children) could make one chicken feed the family for a full week starting with small portions of roast chicken and ending with "soup" - stock made from the bones with some noodles cooked in it. I think she only stretched the truth a very small bit.
When I was cooking for my family of five on a very tight budget, I could usually make one roast chicken feed us forfour nights pretty easily. First, I'd make the kids look through the entire meat section to find the biggest, fattest chicken, with a prize to the winner. I'd roast it with the usual vegetables - potatoes, carrots, celery, onions - and first night, roast chicken. Second night, some sort of chicken "stretch" dinner - chicken a la king on toast or biscuits, chicken curry on rice, chicken spaghetti, etc. Then carcass into stewing pot. I'd make a lot (at least two night's worth) of chicken soup, adding some sort of starch - noodles, rice, potatoes, etc. So, third night, "regular" chicken soup.And fourth night, change up the chicken soup to something different, so it wasn't boring. Most often, I suppose, I'd add some salsa (if I'd added rice as the starch) and make chicken tortilla soup, but sometimes I'd add cream and mushrooms (if I'd added noodles), or maybeGreek spices and lemon juice (best with the potatoes, but also perfect with rice of course).
I tried to make a really big pot of that chicken soup and, often, after four goodmeals, there'd be just enough left over for lunch or light supper, if I included a salad or sandwich on the side.
Our family of fivein those "stretch a chicken until it squeals" days did includethree smallish children. When those two boys hit their teen years, not so easy.
I am sharing how I take one Costco Rotisserie Chicken and turn it into 5 meals for my husband and me. That's FIVE MEALS, not five servings! Plus, I use my InstantPot to make a delicious chicken soup from the bones, so technically that's SIX meals! And no, they aren't chintzy, starvation diet-sized meals.
I am sharing how I take one Costco Rotisserie Chicken and turn it into 5 meals for my husband and me. That's FIVE MEALS, not five servings! Plus, I use my InstantPot to make a delicious chicken soup from the bones, so technically that's SIX meals! And no, they aren't chintzy, starvation diet-sized meals.
An average-size chicken weighs about 1.5kg and will feed 4 people. If you're cooking for 5 or 6, go for a 1.8kg-2kg bird. Do buy the best you can – preferably free-range and organic. Slow-grown birds have more flavour, and produce a much better cooked result, without taking welfare issues into account.
A whole 3 to 4-pound chicken will feed 4 to 6 people, depending on ages and appetite. For Cornish game hens, which are very small chickens, count on one small (1.25 pounds) game hen per person or half of a larger (2-pound) game hen.
From a 1.5 kg organic bird, I'd usually get at least 23 meals. We both like the leg and thigh when freshly roasted, part of the breast might end up in chicken pies, or noodle soup, or a nachos sauce, or Caesar salad, or fried rice, or curry sauce, or ensalada Mixta, or sandwiches. Bones etc go into the next stock.
I wanted to share a meal planning idea with you of how to take a whole chicken, cut it up at the beginning of the week, and have all the pieces you need to make FIVE wonderfully wholesome and delicious meals for the week.
If you're purchasing a cooked chicken from the market, remember that chickens lose about 25 percent of their weight when cooked, so plan on a 2 1/2-pound cooked chicken for 3 cups picked meat.
A single rotisserie chicken should feed three or four people, on average. Outside of a traditional chicken dinner, there are ways of stretching that meat even further. Try some of these clever ways of taking your rotisserie chicken to the next level.
I've noticed that even smaller birds (think around four-and-a-half pounds) make for an even better roast chicken — but they can be particularly tricky to find at grocery stores. They're always the first to go at my Whole Foods and Hannaford.
The general rule is that 3 ounces of chicken is roughly the size of a deck of playing cards or the palm of your average hand. If you decide to use a cup measurement (which isn't exact), the cup will be about half to 60 percent full.
The recommended single portion of chicken is 3 to 4 ounces, about the size of a deck of playing cards. Some people use the palm of their hand as a guide.
Step 4: Roast the first chicken and get 5 meals out of it.
Meal 5: Eat the roasted chicken with several side dishes as your meal for the night, but be sure that there is plenty of meat left to use for other meals. Meals 6-8: After you eat, shred and/or cube the rest of the chicken that you can take off the carcass.
How Much Chicken Do You Get from a Rotisserie Chicken? The average rotisserie chicken weighs about 2 pounds and yields about 3 cups of chicken (2 cups of white meat and 1 cup of dark meat).
Another reason why you might have to do a lap around the store before more chicken appears is that there is no limit on how many rotisserie chickens shoppers can buy.
“You're not going to get fiber, but the protein is going to be filling and that's a good thing. Because the whole chicken is around 1,000 calories, that's still considered a low-calorie diet. It's doable [to lose weight], but it doesn't have my seal of approval as a healthy diet,” she added.
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