How To Do Chicken - For A Salad

[pumpjack]

either boil it...roast in oven ?
im using it for salads.
what ingredients would i put in if boiling.

im on a hi protein diet
thx

[murraymints]

roast

[Mamyalynne]

If I poach a chicken, I add an onion (root off skin on) herbs of my choice and maybe some flavourings like a cinnamon stick and a few bruised cardamoms.

[-Talbot-]

pan fry

[rowanwitch]

Remove the skin rub the chicken with garlic and any herbs and spices you fancy and roast it in a tinfoil tent

[rowanwitch]

Another option joint it, and cook in a roasting bag with tomato puree, garlic, paprika and a little chilli powder

[pumpjack]

ever wonder why ur chicken salad doesnt taste anthing like the ones you get in a restaurant or even tesco ?

lol

[rowanwitch]

They are probably cooked in a pressure cooker or steamed

[237SJ]

I would cover it in cajun spices or jerk spices, roast and then slice to put in a salad (either warm or cold)

[pastafreak]

You could cook it in a slow cooker...lovely and moist.

[DTCwordfan]

that's what the tent does - I do it Italian style, eight heads of garlic in a Le Creuset pot, maybe 4 with 4 shallots, dobs of rosemary in the base and on the chicken, the chicken seasoned with lemon pepper, lemon and salt.

Cook for 1,5 hours @200F 180 fan and a medium-sized bird...half way through the roast add 1/4 bottle of white wine....

Let the chicken rest and reduce the sauce, add whatever be it creme fraiche and other herbs or a touch of balsamic and maple syrup..... ...one meal is the result.

The cold chicken remains are delish in having been half-poached and really good for adding to salads or risotto.

[-Talbot-]

Why would you put an oven on for a bit of chicken?

[gingejbee]

If I wanted cooked chicken for a salad, I'd buy it already cooked... I get Waitrose mini-fillets (three or four different varieties).
I certainly wouldn't cook chicken just to have it cold in a salad!

[Mamyalynne]

I don't know why but I presumed we were talking a whole bird.

[-Talbot-]

Could be a whole bird


big salad though.

[gingejbee]

^^^or small salads for several days....

[sherrardk]

Sod putting the oven on if it can be avoided - I've cheated and bought ready cooked, frozen chicken for tomorrow's tea.

[Mamyalynne]

It works out economical, someone on a high protein diet to cook a bird and use t for lots of meals - you can freeze the prepared meat too for use later.

[Old_Geezer]

Surely the whole point of salad is that it's all uncooked ?

[gingejbee]

^^^maybe, back in the 60s

[Jackdaw33]

If I never ate chicken again for the rest of my life it wouldn't bother me one bit. Chicken today tastes nothing like that of my childhood, when it was a rare treat. In fact it's fowl! Mind you, this is based on the old broiler hens you get ready-cooked from the supermarket.