what would you do with a whole chicken?

[crisgal]

i'm all out of ideas!

[mccfluff]

freeze it?

[Carakeel]

If you make a nice chicken soup, you can use some of the nice juicy meat to make a coronation shicken salad too ... two meals out of one chicken!

[Noraq]

clean it, remove the back bone, flatten it out Cook for required time (depending on size.. smother it in garlic oil, place it on top of sage and onion stuffing on the roasting tin surround it with any veg to hand (loads of small onions...but roast potatoes on their own....or make potato Au Gratin.

[crisgal]

at least they're happy ones from the cwop. I only buy them from there or marks, so we don't have it very often.
In fact, we have it so rarely that we just enjoy a roast dinner, but we've gone over the top with it this week!

[crisgal]

soup and something else sounds good too. I might pressure cook it and keep half the meat for something else.
I've been fancying chicken supreme (I mean the bland-ish one we used to have at school) I doubt there was any actual chicken in that though!

[bednobs]

freeze it?

[Mosaic]

In a big cast iron casserole with coarsely chopped onion, celery, carrot.leave on low heat all day.
Add seasonings and you have instant chicken soup, or stock for an even better soup, plus chicken for meals or sandwiches. What's not to like?

[Mosaic]

oops needs lots of water. stick it in the oven and go out for the day.

[DTCwordfan]

a chicken seraglio - in other words a chicken coronation well spiced up with some good fresh chili, ideally a nice warm one, and some apricots, raisins and chopped dates in......A Middle Eastern meal - a harem food, hot and spicy with lots of warm memories. I had better stop there.

[askyourgran]

I've got chicken for Sunday lunch, we'll probably have some left over for a curry on Monday.

[Barmaid]

Me? If it was anything like the smelly one I had yesterday - cook it in water and give it to the cats.

Seriously though, I would poach in water with spices (cinnamon, saffron, ginger, peppercorns, bayleaf) and have hot with veg or salad. Then use a load of it to make coronation chicken and use the rest to make a curry. The bones and skin I would boil up to make a stock and then a soup.