See, we can talk about all of life’s important subjects here at Holy Spirit-led Homeschooling.
How to Boil Chicken is exciting; it’s another little help for saving money on groceries. Which is a topic that I’m fairly passionate about as I tend to a growing family of seven.
It’s helpful to open my freezer and have several bags of shredded chicken waiting for a variety of meals.
- If your chicken is frozen, thaw it first.
- Rinse off your chicken in the sink.
- Fill a stock pot 1/2 full of water. You want the meat of your chicken covered, and you also need room for broth.
- Let chicken boil for approx 1 hr.
- Drain off the broth. Save your broth for additional recipes. I freeze broth too.
- I peel the chicken off the bone. This can be time-consuming. I usually work on something like my Ephesians Prayer while I peel.
- Fill freezer baggies full of chicken.
- At this time I usually make a big pot of homemade chicken noodle soup.
Here are several chicken/easy cookbooks as well.
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Wonderful encouragement! Can I add a step? If you butcher your own chickens, please add the feet. They have sooo much nutrition in them. You can read on my blog how to clean them. BUT, if you do not have your own chickens, I recently saw “chicken paws” in the freezer section of Save-A-Lot.
Carol, I love your chicken feet post; read it this fall. Can you come back & link it up?
I did 🙂 Also, want to share…we are making good use of our healthy chicken broth today. Dear daughter made a good pot of onion soup for those of us down with major head colds. Nice to have such healthy broth to start with.
I’d love to see your homemade chicken noodle soup recipe. Time for more broth in our family as well. 🙂 Thank you for your ministry! I’ve never commented before, but have followed/subscribed to your blog for a while. I’m sure there are other “lurkers” out there like me too!
Hey Tracy, I plan to share that soon too! 🙂 Thanks, friend!
This is great! I do have two questions: One, how big are the chickens you used? And two, what do you mean by “drain off the broth”? Thanks! 😀
Crafty Momma, those two chickens were approximately six lbs each. Usually I don’t find whole chicken on sale like that. I buy ten. Lb bags of leg/thigh quarters (usually sixty/seventy cents per. lb.) and boil ten .lbs @ a time. As far as draining off the broth: I pour the entire boiled pot of chicken w/ newly made broth through a drainer into a separate pot. What I will then have is a large pot of broth and a drainer full of cooked chicken meat. I then pick the meat off the bones. I leave the drainer over my stock pot of broth while I pick. This way any extra broth will drip down into the pot. W/ one ten lb bag I end up w/ enough chicken to add in to four meals, broth for other cooking, and a large pot of chicken noodle soup that is great for the weekend. 🙂
This falls along with My Easy Chicken recipe. What do they say…:Great minds think alike!” ;o) Check it out when you get a chance.
Thanks Naomi, I’ll check out your recipe! 🙂
I do that, too! Kiddos love my home made chicken noodle soup!
Fantastic post! Sometimes cooked chcken can taste “reheated” when you use it depending on the recipe. If you add a small amount of broth to the meat before you freeze, it helps with that. Also depending on how healthy you want the broth to be, refrigerate the broth first and skim (or scoop, there are some chunky chickens!) the fat off the top then freeze. That does remove flavor, but you can help add some back with herbs and spices.
Thank you for these wonderful tips, Edith! 🙂
This is an extra tip I just discovered and it has saved me so much time… If you throw your chicken (boneless of course), hot out of the oven into your kitchen aid mixer (or a bowl with a handheld mixer) and mix it for about 30 seconds, you have perfectly shredded chicken. I tried this the other day for the first time and I was amazed. I thought i would pass on the tip on this post! Enjoy 🙂