CHICKEN - Chinese Style portions
From iamskippy 13 years ago
- 3 hours to make
- Serves 22
Adelaide, South Australia. We go to the Central Market for quite a bit of food. Bought 2 big whole chooks @ AUD $6.50 each. or US$7.00 approx. Cut up chooks, the breasts weighed 850g, so now I have 4 breasts, 4 legs, 4 drum sticks, 4 wings and 2 carcases. Read more Cooked carcase in water, strained and allowed water to cool and put in fridge, covered. Removed meat from carcase for later use in soup. Next day, skimmed fat (Disgusting) from water (the water, which is now in jelly form). I use the jelly, (goes to liquid on heating) and make "Chicken and Corn Soup" See less
Ingredients
- 2 Large Chickens shopping list
- Click on Photo to look at Enlarged Photo, easy to read. This will give you "How To" for Chopping up a Chook . Instructions are pretty easy. shopping list
- I used this to help me out on how to chop up a chook. shopping list
- I now do the breast and other portions very well. shopping list
How to make it
- With the bird on it's back, place cleaver to one side of breast bone and cut thru for two halves.
- Cut out the leg from carcase and breast. Find the joint of drumstick on leg and cut thru.
- Remove breast from carcase.
- Cook carcase in water, strain (keep carcase) and allow water to cool.
- Place in fridge (covered) overnight.
- Remove fat from the top of Chicken Stock next day and discard fat. Keep stock
- Remove meat from carcase and save for Chicken & Corn Soup
- I use the Chicken Stock for making Chicken & Corn Soup - 6 to 8 serves
- Then, I use one Chicken breast cut into pieces to use as stir fry - 2 serves
- Then the same again for the other three breasts - 6 serves
- I then use the legs for Cacciatore - 4 serves
- I then use the drum stick and wing with a thick Chinese sauce, basted in the oven - 4 serves
- All these (22 meals) out of two big chooks, but you must accompany these with vegetables or rice or both, to fill you up.
- I would be looking at AUD$13.00 for the 2 chooks and about $15.00 max. for vegetables.
- So now we have 22 meals for AUD$28.00 and roughly the same in US $dollars, equating to about $1.30 per serve. Plus the Electricity or Gas.
- If you think I am wrong - Let me know
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