What can I make using the chicken meat left from making chicken broth?

[kokoro]

I just made chicken broth and saved the chicken meat but I have no idea what to do it. We are dairy, egg, peanut, nut and sesame-free and DH is the only one who will eat the chicken meat if I find a way to cook it. Thanks for any ideas!

[Jill]

I just made chicken broth and saved the chicken meat but I have no idea what to do it. We are dairy, egg, peanut, nut and sesame-free and DH is the only one who will eat the chicken meat if I find a way to cook it. Thanks for any ideas!

What about shredding it and putting it into fajitas? That way you could all eat the same thing only he'd add chicken to his. I'd season it with mexican type seasonings (cumin, coriander, salt, garlic...)

You could chunk it and put it over a salad

Shred it and add bbq sauce and serve it on a bun

he could just pick at the carcass like we do in our house, too...but that would not likely be respectful in a veggie home so I think that's not a good idea. :) could you pull it off the bones and put into a ziploc and let him add as he wants to whatever other dishes you are having?

[Christi]

I usually put it in a casserole or soup. Do you have a lot of big chunks or mostly scraps?

I have to say, Lisa, that I admire your ability to pick over a chicken carcass. I'm a former vegetarian, and it's *still* one of my least-favorite cooking tasks to do. I still don't like to eat chicken off the bone, as in fried chicken or whatever. :ick:

[kokoro]

What about shredding it and putting it into fajitas? That way you could all eat the same thing only he'd add chicken to his. I'd season it with mexican type seasonings (cumin, coriander, salt, garlic...)

You could chunk it and put it over a salad

Shred it and add bbq sauce and serve it on a bun

he could just pick at the carcass like we do in our house, too...but that would not likely be respectful in a veggie home so I think that's not a good idea. :) could you pull it off the bones and put into a ziploc and let him add as he wants to whatever other dishes you are having?

Thanks, Jill! I am realizing how difficult my DH is WRT food! lol He won't eat Mexican. He for sure won't eat a salad with chicken meat on top. lol The shredded w/ BBQ sauce on a bun idea would work, actually. :) But it wouldn't be his favorite. He is super picky! lol Well, to be fair, among Asian food he will eat near anything and that's what he grew up eating.

And LMAO at the idea of him taking some and putting it on top of whatever I make for myself. I am a good cook, honestly! But DH does *not* have my taste in food *at all*. lol I'm really into leafy greens and bean dishes and Indian spices, etc. I think he thinks my food should be fed to cows or something. I still know I'm a good cook. Anyway, thanks for the ideas. I'm probably going to do the BBQ bun one. :)

[kokoro]

I usually put it in a casserole or soup. Do you have a lot of big chunks or mostly scraps?

I have to say, Lisa, that I admire your ability to pick over a chicken carcass. I'm a former vegetarian, and it's *still* one of my least-favorite cooking tasks to do. I still don't like to eat chicken off the bone, as in fried chicken or whatever. :ick:

I'm pretty impressed myself. Somehow giving birth to DS really changed me. I'm kind of like, 'eh, I gave birth. This is no big deal' to a *lot* of things that used to totally gross me out. lol

[kokoro]

Oh, and Jill, I would be *so* fine with DH eating a whole chicken it isn't funny! He is sick of rotisserie (sp?) chicken unfortunately. I would *love* to be able to just get one some nights and have him eat primarily from it for a few days. No such luck! As I said, super picky!

[Brenda]

Thanks, Jill! I am realizing how difficult my DH is WRT food! lol He won't eat Mexican. He for sure won't eat a salad with chicken meat on top. lol The shredded w/ BBQ sauce on a bun idea would work, actually. :) But it wouldn't be his favorite. He is super picky! lol Well, to be fair, among Asian food he will eat near anything and that's what he grew up eating.

And LMAO at the idea of him taking some and putting it on top of whatever I make for myself. I am a good cook, honestly! But DH does *not* have my taste in food *at all*. lol I'm really into leafy greens and bean dishes and Indian spices, etc. I think he thinks my food should be fed to cows or something. I still know I'm a good cook. Anyway, thanks for the ideas. I'm probably going to do the BBQ bun one. :)

Some more ideas

stir fry
chicken salad (made with Miracle whip or veganaise)
on top of pasta, like with a white wine and garlic sauce
mixed with pan fried potatoes for hash
chicken fried rice
throw it into a veggie shepards pie like Niri recently posted
Cuban arroz amarillo con pollo
grind it up for croquetas

[~PQ]

Well since he likes Asian food then you can do fried rice with it. All leftover meat works with fried rice, lol!

[~PQ]

darnit, Brenda beat me to the rice. :D

[Ali]

I usually put it in a casserole or soup. Do you have a lot of big chunks or mostly scraps?

I have to say, Lisa, that I admire your ability to pick over a chicken carcass. I'm a former vegetarian, and it's *still* one of my least-favorite cooking tasks to do. I still don't like to eat chicken off the bone, as in fried chicken or whatever. :ick:

I'm pretty impressed myself. Somehow giving birth to DS really changed me. I'm kind of like, 'eh, I gave birth. This is no big deal' to a *lot* of things that used to totally gross me out. lol

Chicken is the grossest meat, IMO, and I'm not a veggie. It's just yucky -- unless you are eating it, lol. I'm fixing that slow roasted spicy chicken for tonight, and the prep work gags me :ick: But then end result is sooo worth it! ;)

[Ali]

I would make a chicken noodle soup with it (w/homemade noodles, of course ;) ) or put it in gravy to serve over biscuits with mashed potatoes. Down home comfort food :)

[bannanabette]

Given your husband's preferences, I'd probably throw it into fried rice, just eat it with soy sauce and scallions over rice, put it in at the last minute into a stir fry, or eat it with congee. Or for something that doesn't involve rice, how about a chicken alfredo using cashew cream and soy cheese?

[cinnamon]

Given your husband's preferences, I'd probably throw it into fried rice, just eat it with soy sauce and scallions over rice, put it in at the last minute into a stir fry, or eat it with congee. Or for something that doesn't involve rice, how about a chicken alfredo using cashew cream and soy cheese?

Anna, was it you that was raving about cashew cream, based on a recipe from Rach? :spinning: If so, can you share it?

:)

[bannanabette]

Anna, was it you that was raving about cashew cream, based on a recipe from Rach? :spinning: If so, can you share it?

:)

Hee hee, yes it was me! I will post it in the recipes forum (oh, and my rant about veggie wannabe kids? I realized that the *only* thing they genuinely like better is my vegan masala sauce... but they like it over chicken!)

Oh, hey, kokoro - that's another idea for chicken. Have it with rice and vegan masala sauce! I'm sure the sauce can be modified to use some other dairy substituted besides cashew cream

[anastasia]

I just made chicken broth and saved the chicken meat but I have no idea what to do it. We are dairy, egg, peanut, nut and sesame-free and DH is the only one who will eat the chicken meat if I find a way to cook it. Thanks for any ideas!

You know, honestly, meat from broth is not all that good. All the flavor has been sucked out of it into the broth, and if you're lucky, most of the protein has too (if your broth/stock is gelatinous when cold, that means it's full of protein—a good thing).

Way back before kids I took a cooking class where we learned a recipe for some kind of chicken thing that you could spread on bread or toast, which the instructor believed was the only thing worth making out of "used" chicken meat. I can dig it up for you if you like.

There's certainly nothing wrong with adding it to soup or making something else with it but it won't have much flavor, so you'll want to keep that in mind when adding seasonings or veggies.

[kokoro]

You know, honestly, meat from broth is not all that good. All the flavor has been sucked out of it into the broth, and if you're lucky, most of the protein has too (if your broth/stock is gelatinous when cold, that means it's full of protein—a good thing).

Way back before kids I took a cooking class where we learned a recipe for some kind of chicken thing that you could spread on bread or toast, which the instructor believed was the only thing worth making out of "used" chicken meat. I can dig it up for you if you like.

There's certainly nothing wrong with adding it to soup or making something else with it but it won't have much flavor, so you'll want to keep that in mind when adding seasonings or veggies.

Thank you all!

This was very interesting. I have no idea since I'm a veggie. DH thinks chicken doesn't have much flavor so he will *really* feel that way about this chicken, I guess! lol I'm still going to make *something* with it. It kills me to just throw away organic, cooked chicken used to make broth. Seems like a huge waste. I don't know about the spread recipe. Thanks for the offer but I don't think DH will like it.

thank you everyone for *great* ideas. :)

[Nicke]

You know, honestly, meat from broth is not all that good. All the flavor has been sucked out of it into the broth, and if you're lucky, most of the protein has too (if your broth/stock is gelatinous when cold, that means it's full of protein—a good thing).

I read somewhere that you're supposed to let the chicken cool in the broth so it absorbs the flavor...

[Jill]

I read somewhere that you're supposed to let the chicken cool in the broth so it absorbs the flavor...
I've read that, too.
I generally don't like meat cooked in liquids period (hence my hatred of my crockpot in spite of my best intentions lol) but as long as you are sure to season it and serve it "in" something and not as "the dish" it's usually fine - like when I make burritoes or whaterver there is so much ELSE going on that the flavor and texture of the chicken doesn't really matter. (well it does but we're talking using up extra bits here, and leftovers don't have to be perfect do they?) :)

[anastasia]

I read somewhere that you're supposed to let the chicken cool in the broth so it absorbs the flavor...

But then aren't you taking flavor out of the broth? The same broth you deliberately sucked the flavor out of the chicken to make?

Eh, whatever. :wackybounce:

[~PQ]

But then aren't you taking flavor out of the broth? The same broth you deliberately sucked the flavor out of the chicken to make?

Eh, whatever. :wackybounce:

But what came first? The chicken or the broth... bwaahahahahaha

[bannanabette]

Thank you all!

This was very interesting. I have no idea since I'm a veggie. DH thinks chicken doesn't have much flavor so he will *really* feel that way about this chicken, I guess!

What I usually do is about 30 minutes into the process, I take the chicken out and remove the breast meat and the thigh meat and then return everything else back into the pot and finish making the stock. That way the good meat doesn't get overcooked, and I still get a very flavorful stock.

[Peggyann]

((I would just use this recipe, but shred the chicken, add indgredients, low for about 2 hrs, add then follow the rest of the recipe))


1.5 lbs BSCB
3 TBLS lime juice
1 TBLS chili powder
1 cup frozen corn
1 cup chunky salsa

Place chicken in crockpot. Combine lime juice and chili powder, pour over chicken. Cover and cook on low for 5-6 hours or until chicken is tender. Remove chicken, cool slightly, shred and return to crockpot. Stir in corn and salsa. Cover and cook on low for 30 minutes or until heated through. Serve in tortillas with favorite toppings.

~PA~