All right libs, let’s go!
Meal one: chicken breast with rice
Cut the chicken breasts off, serve with rice 🍚 or potatoes 🥔 and baked or steamed broccoli 🥦 or carrots 🥕 season with Montreal steak spice or whatever else you feel like. Easy peazy
Meal two: Gumbo or sautéed chicken
Remove the rest of the easy to access meat into a bowl. Sauté some onion 🧅 and garlic 🧄 in a frying pan or pot (you can also fry with hot peppers 🌶 if you’re feeling spicy) and add a hefty amount of Cajun spice, salt and pepper and fry until it browns and sticks to the bottom of the pan/pot. Deglaze with a bunch of broth (beef or chicken, whatever) mix. This is your flavour base. Add the chicken and mix. If it starts to dry out, add more broth.
You can either serve this with rice and veg on the side, or add that into the pot with extra broth to make some gumbo.
Meal three: Ramen
Take the remaining bones and scrap meat and make a bunch of broth by boiling it in a large pot over the course of an afternoon or so. Boil with diced onions, garlic, plenty of salt and pepper to taste, whatever other spices you feel like, and some chopped veg like carrots 🥕 celery etc.
Strain the solid bits out using a strainer. From this you can make single servings of ramen 🍜! Boil some noodles and add to a serving of broth on the stove top. Poach an egg 🥚 directly in the broth with the noodles, garnish with green onions and sesame seeds if you have them. Add whatever else you want!
There you have it!
Hell yeah. Or throw it in a frying pan with some rice, soy & fish sauce, plus veg and herbs and make some Thai fried rice
When I was a homeless drug addict, the loss leader rotisserie chickens from super markets were basically my one meal a day if I could scrape the extra money. It came ready cooked and could feed three or four people if you shared it right.
Other people when they cook: your post
Me when I cook: :smoking-fish:
Fine, we shall rename it “chicken based gumbo inspired foodstuff”
Roast a chicken yourself. $5 can get you an entire chicken and it's not "just about to expire and be thrown in the trash so we cooked it instead" garbage they sell to you at grocery stores.
Excellent post! Meal blocks like this are great starting points for grocery lists and can help keep you on budget without really making sacrifices
good post. youre gonna need some filé for that gumbo flavour tho (also bay leaves, thyme, andouille sausage, some bell peppers...)
:banana-duck: but what if vegortibese?
filé
Good call. I’ve never actually made gumbo before, I didn’t know that. I just made all this this weekend and it sorta turned out like gumbo so that’s what I called it hehe
yeah, i kinda figured it was a "this is my not-actually-this but its a similar profile" food thats easy to throw together.
which i do all the time.