BASIC: HOW TO PROCCESS A COOKED WHOLE CHICKEN

 I really like to proportion things out for meals and the Ziplok snack bags make it perfect for this.   A while back I posted rice packed in snack size zip lock bags, that go into the freezer.   So were going to do the same thing with the cooked chicken, but it's a tad different. 

Here is a whole chicken that I cooked for about 4 hours with all the fixings.  Removed all the bone that are nicely saved in the freezer and discarded all the fat.  

What you will need.
1. A Cooked whole chicken.
2. Ziploc bags snack size.
3. Soup Broth.
4. Small bowl
5. Scale.  (optional) but it come in really handy.

Here is some of the soup broth I left in the refrigerator, the
rest is frozen in the freezer.













Work in batches, take a few piece of meat and dice it up small, as shown in the pictuer below.

 Put the bowl on top of the scale. This is just incase some of the broth spills. Put the ziploc baggie in side the bowl.

 Fill the bag with chopped chicken until the scale reads 5 oz.  Being exacting is not important.  But make sure the baggie is upright and the chicken is evenly dispersed.  And now carefully pour one lade of soup in.  The soup should not cover up the chicken.












This is what it should look like.  The chicken is not submerged.

When you close the bag the liquid covers up the chicken.  If a little soup broth spills out that ok. 

 8 bags ready to go into the freezer.

Put then all up right in a container and stick in the freezer and your ready to go. 

After they are frozen all you have to do it is two things.

1. Put it in a pot with a 1/2 cup water or less and turn the burner to either low or medium low.

2. Put into a bowl, put in microwave. Sense each microwave is very different. You might want to pules it at 35 seconds until it is thawed.  

And very important do not discard the broth, try to incorporate it into the dish you are making or save it. 

Have fun coming up with yummy ideas.