Hi everyone! Today I’m excited to be participating in Kitchen Tip Tuesdays, hosted by Tammy’s Recipes!
I have a simple tip to share: something I’ve just started doing recently that relates to meal-planning, saving time and saving money/energy!
I eat a lot of chicken — for most meat recipes I use chicken, whether it’s baked with veggies, diced up in soups and chili, shredded in the crock pot, or tossed with a bit of mayo to make chicken salad sandwiches.
I used to just bake the chicken when I needed it. But one night I had an idea: why not bake some extra chicken to use later in the week? It seems simple, but it had never crossed my mind. Now, whenever I am baking a chicken dish, I put a couple extra chicken breasts in the oven. I usually cook them in a glass pan with a little bit of water or chicken broth in the bottom of the pan to keep them moist.
That way, I have cooked chicken to use the rest of the week! Now it’s so easy to add cooked chicken to salads, rice, sandwiches, or pasta. Making dinner is so much quicker!
This tip can also work with roasting veggies, baking cookies, or making bread. Now pretty much whenever I need to turn on my oven for one dish, I think, “Is there another dish I can also cook right now? This maximizes my use of the oven and saves energy, time, and meal preparation later!
What are your kitchen tips? I’d love to hear in the comments section below!
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i do this too! except not on a weekly basis… but basically, we have roast chicken about once every 2-3 weeks, so we eat the chicken for a meal & then ben takes it off the bone and i shred and freeze it. works so well! 🙂
I haven’t done that with chicken, but what a good idea, since so many recipes call for “X amount of cooked chicken”. I do try to bake multiple things at the same time if I can, or at least in succession, so that the oven only has to do the big heat-up once.
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Great! I also take advantage of their ovens for example when I cook something I can take advantage of the remaining heat in the oven to reheat food. Or when cooking rice in my rice cooker I can also boiled potatoes by steaming above rice.