I like the wings and back of the chicken so that's my "first night" choice while Lee gets a leg. This leaves another leg and the entire breast for other meals.
Here are some of the other things we do with the rest of the chicken:
Chicken burrito
Chicken, ham & rice soup
Chicken and corn chowder
Chicken tacos
Chicken salad sandwich
BBQ Chicken sandwich
Chicken stir-fry
Chicken curry
Chinese chicken salad
Here's my recipe for Chinese Chicken Salad. This is a main dish salad
I use an Excel spreadsheet to calculate the nutrition content with data from the Self NutritionData website. http://nutritiondata.self.com/
AMT | Cal | Prot | carbs | fat | chol | fiber | Ca | |
Chinese chicken salad | ||||||||
chicken breast | half | 142 | 27 | 3 | 73 | 13 | ||
Spinach(raw) | 2c | 28 | 3.6 | 2.8 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 102 | |
Lettuce-Romaine | 2 c | 20 | 1.4 | 4 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 28 | |
Carrot | 1 med | 30 | 0.8 | 7 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 27 | |
Celery | 1 stalk | 7 | 0.4 | 2 | 0.2 | 16 | ||
Green onions | 2T | 4 | 0.2 | 2 | 0.2 | 6 | ||
Cashews | 1/2c | 392.5 | 12 | 20 | 32 | 12 | 26 | |
Muruku | 2 oz | 240 | 6 | 40 | 6 | |||
Amy's dressing | 4T | 220 | 36 | |||||
1083.5 | 51.4 | 77.8 | 77.9 | 73 | 14.5 | 218 | ||
serves 2 | 541.8 | 25.7 | 38.9 | 39.0 | 36.5 | 7.3 | 109.0 |
So, we use half the left over chicken breast for this recipe. Muruku is a vegetarian, extruded, gluten-free, fried, noodle-like product that is found at the check-out stands in Roth's markets. I like it better than the old, canned,"Chinese" noodle products I grew up with. There are several flavors but I use the onion variety for this recipe. Dressing is Amy's Shitake Sesame. The bulk of the calories and fat in this dish come from the generous serving of cashews. Almonds could be a substitute and will lower those values somewhat.
Now we're two meals in and still have half a breast and a leg left.