We made the decision to fry in the fry pan rather than the deep fryer. A bit better ability to turn and control the cooking of the chicken. This was definitely a good idea.
What you see in the pic is a quarter of the amount of chicken we made. So plenty for us for the next couple of days. Perfect for a family of 4 or even 8 with sides.
We got our chicken from Sainsbury’s freezer section and was a 2.5Kg bag for £4.99 which appears to be their normal price.
Will I buy them again??? Hells yeah!!!
We just made the equivalent of a 14 piece bucket with 12 hot wings for less than £6.
Why on earth would I want to spend nearly £40 for the same amount of kfc or more from local takeaways that we keep being disappointed by.
Better to take the time and plan for it and make it ourselves I reckon.
If we really want to go all out then we can make our own chips at the same time and gravy or coleslaw or even the corn on the cob.
We are NOT going to talk about how the UK kfc seem to think that baked beans are a side … not barbecue ones … just normal ones 😳
However you want to do it this is way cheaper than takeaways and much better quality. Frankly it’s a bluddy cheap family meal as well frankly. Even if you bought frozen corn at around £1.50 a pack, chicken gravy granules £1 a pack, oven chips from £1 a pack that’s still a fakeaway dinner for less than a quarter of the cost of getting it delivered.
Tomorrow I might strip the chicken off the bones and turn it into a tomato based chicken and mushroom pasta dish. That will feed us until Wednesday when I will go do the shopping.
Scratch cooking might take some time and organisation and preparation it doesn’t take hours of our life really. It also saves you money and you can have the good things even if you are struggling and that should never be something to feel guilty about.
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Part 3 of the Really Good SlowFried Chicken….
Cooking
We made the decision to fry in the fry pan rather than the deep fryer. A bit better ability to turn and control the cooking of the chicken.
This was definitely a good idea.
What you see in the pic is a quarter of the amount of chicken we made. So plenty for us for the next couple of days. Perfect for a family of 4 or even 8 with sides.
We got our chicken from Sainsbury’s freezer section and was a 2.5Kg bag for £4.99 which appears to be their normal price.
Will I buy them again??? Hells yeah!!!
We just made the equivalent of a 14 piece bucket with 12 hot wings for less than £6.
Why on earth would I want to spend nearly £40 for the same amount of kfc or more from local takeaways that we keep being disappointed by.
Better to take the time and plan for it and make it ourselves I reckon.
If we really want to go all out then we can make our own chips at the same time and gravy or coleslaw or even the corn on the cob.
We are NOT going to talk about how the UK kfc seem to think that baked beans are a side … not barbecue ones … just normal ones 😳
However you want to do it this is way cheaper than takeaways and much better quality. Frankly it’s a bluddy cheap family meal as well frankly. Even if you bought frozen corn at around £1.50 a pack, chicken gravy granules £1 a pack, oven chips from £1 a pack that’s still a fakeaway dinner for less than a quarter of the cost of getting it delivered.
Tomorrow I might strip the chicken off the bones and turn it into a tomato based chicken and mushroom pasta dish. That will feed us until Wednesday when I will go do the shopping.
Scratch cooking might take some time and organisation and preparation it doesn’t take hours of our life really. It also saves you money and you can have the good things even if you are struggling and that should never be something to feel guilty about.
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