I love chicken, but I also love quick meal preparation as well. I do not love precooked, frozen chicken’s taste or price.
I used to love buying rotisserie chickens for the same price as raw. I also loved that they tasted better than what I made at home for cold chicken recipes. I used them for several other dishes, as well. However, buying them is now very inconvenient for me.
Now, I cook my own chicken usually from raw, frozen, skinless chicken breasts. However, I have found a trick to making it easier and tastier than what I used to cook.
My discovery? Chicken breasts cooked in the pressure cooker with chicken stock. It takes less than 15 minutes total time from putting the cooker on the stove until the burner is turned off.
I can place 3 or 4 chicken breasts in the pressure cooker, add 1 1/2 cups of chicken stock, and cook on high pressure for 10 minutes. That is all there is to it.
I use one of the breasts right away. I place the others in a resealable plastic freezer bag and place it in my refrigerator.
The 1st Dish: Chicken and noodles. I use the stock and one of the chicken breasts to make homemade noodles and chicken. Click hered to see how I do it.
The 2nd Dish: Chicken Salad. I cut up 1 or 2 of the remaining breasts into cubes. Place them in a bowl. Add celery, salad dressing, grapes and chopped pecans. Lunch or Dinner is served.
The 3rd Dish: Shredded BBQ Chicken. I take two forks and pull apart the remaining chickens breast(s). Then, I place the shredded chicken in a pan on my stove. Add a proportionally correct amount of bottled or jarred bbq sauce. Cook until thoroughly heated. Serve on buns with coleslaw on top or on the side.
Three different meals with three different tastes made from cooking chicken once. You can’t get much easier unless you eat out.