Wednesday 3 October 2018

Using up leftovers chicken

I roasted a chicken for Sunday lunch and served up 4 portions of roast dinner, two for us on Sunday and two for us the following day.

The carcass was picked clean then used to make chicken, butterbean and vegetable soup for lunch. It lasted us for two days.

Leftover chicken was processed with half a packet of nice smoked ham, a teaspoon of wholegrain mustard, half a can of condensed chicken soup (we didn't have enough gravy for serving plus adding to this), lots of salt, pepper and dried thyme:

A packet of puff pastry was rolled out and cut into four before the above was divided onto it and a little more dry thyme sprinkled over it:
Water was added to the edges and the pasties formed:
We had one each for tea last night with the little leftover gravy and vegetables:

The other two are wrapped ready for the freezer. The cooking instructions have been included:
That chicken gave each of us 4 evening meals and 2 lunches so not too bad for a £3.50 bird.

13 comments:

  1. man they look amazing! We had a beautiful curry from the leftovers from our Sunday roast leg of lamb. It was huge and fed seven on Sunday and good greedy portions last night - so tender!

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    1. Yummy! Lucky you, so long since we had a leg of lamb.

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  2. Brilliant. It's amazing what you can do with a chicken. The pasties look lovely.

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    1. Thanks. An ex friend of mine would only serve the breast then throw the rest away.

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  3. That was a great way to stretch that chicken,

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    1. Pies this time but others it could be curry or chilli.

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  4. Chicken is fantastic value. Those pasties look very good indeed.
    xx

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  5. I am always amazed how many meals we can get from a chicken. The pasties look delicious.

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  6. The pasties look wonderful. I do something similar with small bags of leftover ham. I must try it with chicken!!

    God bless.

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    1. I think the soup inside helped with what could end up being a dry pasty. The chicken certainly helps with the flavour.

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  7. Those look lovely and you certainly got a lot from one bird! Best to you and Ruby.

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