Slow Cooked Legless Chicken for One Recipe


Portions: 1-4


Ingredients

  • 1 Small Chicken
  • Onions
  • Mixed Herbs
  • Mashed Potato
  • Cabbage
  • Stuffing
  • Gravy Granules
  • Asparagus

Instructions

  1. Cut (not chop) up some onions and place in the bottom of the slow cooker - I cut my onions in to quarters
  2. Put the chicken in the slow cooker - if like me and you only have a small slow cooker and even a small chicken wont quite fit then cut off its legs - Legless Chicken!!
  3. Set the slow cooker to cook the chicken for 8 hours on LOW heat
  4. When the chicken is either nearly ready (or it has finished the 8 hour timer and is now on the keep warm setting) start to prepare the rest of the meal
  5. Make some mashed potatoes, leave in the saucepan and set aside for use later
  6. Take the chicken of of the slow cooker and carefully remove the breasts and try to keep the skin on them.
  7. 1/2 a chicken breast per person should be enough so put the skin on chicken breast(s) on a baking tray and cook in the oven alongside the stuffing (stuffing normally takes around 20 minutes to cook which is enough time to crisp up the skin)
  8. Remove the chicken wings and any other chicken meat from the carcass and set aside for either a late night snack or (depending on how much is leftover) use to make a curry the next day!
  9. Fry some thinly sliced cabbage in some butter until it's nice and soft



  10. Put the saucepan with the mashed potato in it back on the heat and give it a stir until it's piping hot and then add the soft cabbage and stir it in



  11. Remove the colcannon (mash with cabbage) from the heat
  12. Add some butter and garlic to a frying pan and cook the Asparagus
  13. To make the gravy sieve the onion infused chicken juices from the slow cooker in to a small saucepan
  14. Although you can use some cornflour to thicken the gravy I much prefer to use gravy granules as it not only thickens the gravy but adds an extra level of flavour
  15. When you're ready to serve it up, put a couple of ready made frozen Yorkshire Puddings in the oven
  16. Begin to serve it up and don't forget the Yorkies!!


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