6 Ways with BBQ/Roasted Chicken
Delicious
Affordable
Simple!
Here are 6 delicious, affordable and simple meals used from just 2 BBQ/Roasted Chickens!
Included is a recipe for roasting your own chickens, which is even cheaper.
When you have your 2 cooked chickens, cut as much meat of as possible and divide into six portions and then freeze to use in the following recipes.
If you have some other ideas, we would love you to share them with us!
Thank you and enjoy!
Roasted Chicken
Ingredients for marinade
½ Dijon mustard
¼ cup soy sauce
1/2 cup lemon juice (fresh is best)
Method
Place all ingredients in a bowl and whisk with a wire whisk until ingredients have mixed in well. The marinade should have a smooth and creamy consistency
Ingredients for Chicken
1 uncooked chicken
3 lemons
Fresh mixed herbs eg parsley, oregano, thyme or sage
Method
Preheat oven to 2200C
Clean chicken well inside and outside with a moist paper towel, then pat dry.
Stuff cavities with lemon rinds and fresh herbs and tie chicken legs together
Cover the chicken with the marinade adding some cracked pepper and remaining herbs to the top. Place breast side down in a greased baking dish and bake for 35 mins. Regularly baste the chicken.
After 35 minutes take the chicken out and turn it over, place back in the oven for a further 35 minutes and continue with the regular basting.
When the chicken is cooked, cover it with foil and set aside for 5-10 minutes to rest.
Some further notes...
Overcooking your chicken will cause it to dry out. As a guide, a 1.5kg whole stuffed chicken takes about 30 minutes per 500g of weight to cook in an oven preheated to 180°C.
To test if the chicken is ready, insert a skewer into the thickest part of the thigh. If the juices run clear with no sign of pink, this indicates that the chicken is cooked.
Risotto
Cost $9 | Time 20mins | Serves 6
Ingredients
½ brown onion, diced
1 clove garlic
2 cups uncooked Arborio rice
4 cups chicken stock
1 serve of chicken
1 tin of champignons or 2 cups of fresh mushrooms
1 cup of frozen peas
Method
Heat chicken stock in a pot, leave on simmer
Sautee onion in hot pan with oil
Add 2 cups of Arborio rice and coat with oil
Add 1 ladle at a time of stock to the rice, once absorbed add another, stirring constantly (you may need to add more boiling water to fully cook the rice)
Add mushrooms, peas and chicken
Fold through and serve.
Chicken Pot Pie
Cost $9.50 | Time 15min | Serves 4
Ingredients
1 tin cream of chicken soup
1 packet of frozen or fresh mixed veges (600g)
1 cup of cooked rice
1 serve of chicken
Method
Add soup and one tin of water to pan and bring to a simmer
Add veges and chicken
Spray an ovenproof dish with canola spray and line with one sheet of pastry
Add chicken mix to dish
Cover with another sheet of pastry and slit a small hole in the top
Bake in the oven at 210 degrees for around 15 minutes or until golden brown
Fried Rice
Cost $9 | Time 15min | Serves 8
Ingredients
Rice
2 eggs
½ brown onion
Capsicum
Peas
Carrot
Ham – 6 slices shoulder ham
Chicken
Method
Heat oil in pan
Beat 2 eggs and add to pan to cook a very thin omelette. When cooked, remove from pan and dice
Add onion and cook til transparent
Add rest of veges
Add chicken, ham, prawns
Add the egg back in
Add the rice
Combine all and flavour with soy or chilli sauce. You can add any herbs that you may have eg chinese five spice
Chicken & SDT Cous Cous
Cost $10 | Time 10min | Serves 6
Ingredients
1 serve of chicken
2 cups cous cous
1 jar SDT pesto
1 packet baby spinach leaves
Lemon juice
Method
Cook cous cous to directions on pack
Place spinach leaves in a pan on low heat with lid on to wilt the leaves
Add cooked cous cous, SDT pesto, chicken and combine
Add 1 Tbsp of lemon juice at the end!
Hokkein Noodles
Cost $8 | Time 10min | Serves 4
Ingredients
1 packet hokkein noodles
1 serve of chicken
2 cups mixed veges
½ cup chicken stock
½ bottle of oriental sauce mix eg. Honey, soy, garlic marinade
Method
Place noodles into hot pan/wok
Add chicken stock and mix with noodles until soft
Add chicken and veges, mix evenly
Add sauce!
Chicken Tortilla
Cost $9 | Time 15min | Serves 8
Ingredients
1 can red kidney beans (you can puree this to hide from kids!)
1 can diced tomatoes
1 serve chicken
1 packet of burrito/taco flavouring
1 packet of tortillas
Grated cheese
Salsa
Method
Add beans, tomato and chicken to a hot pan and mix until chicken pieces start to separate
Add flavour sachet
Line a baking tray with baking paper and place tortilla – spoon about 2 tbs of mixture into the tortilla and fold according to directions on the pack
Spoon salsa on top and then top that with some grated cheese
Bake in moderate oven until cheese has melted, approx 10 minutes.
Chicken Stock
Chicken remains – just bones, no stuffing
Water
Salt & Pepper
Any veges left in the fridge eg carrot, zucchini, onion, celery
Method
Place all bones into a large pot
Place any veges in the pot
Cover with water & add salt and pepper
Bring to the boil and then simmer for about 2 hours
Strain the stock into a container
Freeze in ziplock bags or ice cube trays to use later
Discard the remaining veges and chicken bones
Note
Leave vegetables in and add some pasta for chicken noodle soup!