Food thrift - what to do with leftover roast chicken and carcass?

[Time Waster]

We're cooking a roast chicken every other Sunday. We do curries with the meat but what about the carcass? Does anyone use it for something and how?

 

[Pat "5mph"]

You could boil the carcass in water for a few hours with some vegetables not in their prime, strain, then you have chicken stock.
You can use chicken stock in cooking instead of water, for soups, sauces, even to boil pasta or rice.
You can portion the stock, freeze it, use it when you need it.
Much nicer than store bought stock cubes.

 

[richardfm]

If you have a pressure cooker then making stock is quick and easy.
Bu then, if you have a pressure cooker you wouldn't be asking the question.

 

[Grant Fondo]

certainly do, boil it up with some ginger and garlic, blob of miso paste and fresh chillies, with or without noodles, yum!

 

[Time Waster]

If you have a pressure cooker then making stock is quick and easy.
Bu then, if you have a pressure cooker you wouldn't be asking the question.

We had a pressure cooker. Scrapped it as we didn't use it.

 

[Once a Wheeler]

Put it through the garden shredder:

and use it as a bonemeal dressing for the garden. Simple.

 

[slowmotion]

If you are making stock, don't forget to crunch up the bones so you get all the wonderful bone marrow.

 

[Profpointy]

Hint: don't strain the stock through a tea-towel. If you do, it'll taste of soap powder and be ruined after hours of boiling and anticipation of wholesome goodness

 

[FishFright]

Hint: don't strain the stock through a tea-towel. If you do, it'll taste of soap powder and be ruined after hours of boiling and anticipation of wholesome goodness

I've done that before

 

[Profpointy]

I've done that before

Quite - my advice was from bitter experience and disapointment

 

[gbb]

I always strip ours , refrigerate it and feed the dog it.

 

[Reynard]

Stock, for sure. You can freeze the bones and wait till you got a job lot. You can freeze the stock, too.

Excess chicken (cooked) and meat stripped from the carcass can also be frozen. Good for chucking into soups, pasta bakes, enchiladas, fried rice and the like.

Here, some of the chicken also ends up in the cat.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

A handy container for your bike tools?

 

[Alex321]

Soup.

Boil with some crunchy vegetables (e.g. Carrots, celery, mini corn) chopped up small and herbs & seasoning to taste. After it has simmered for 20 minutes or so, remove the bones, pulling off what scraps of meat you can, to leave in the soup, and add some small dried pasta, giving it another 5 minutes simmering. Either serve straight away, or cool and freeze for later in lunch sized portions.

 

[FrankCrank]

When back there, mum likes to cook a chicken of a weekend.
The carcass goes out on the bird table, and what a joy to see red kites swooping down and deftly grabbing bits.
Gotta be careful though, if gulls are first to spot the opportunity, they gulp the lot down in next to no time.