We had absolutely loads of chicken left after Sunday evening's dinner. There was also lots of homemade stuffing, the steamed vegetables and gravy. I pondered this on Monday evening while considering what to do for dinner.
I took all the chicken off the bones and made a chicken stock with the bones and grungy bits.
I shredded some of the chicken and put it in my pie dish. Then I crumbled the stuffing over it, added the vegetables and the gravy, mixed it all around and covered it with puff pastry and shoved it in the oven until the pastry was puffy and golden. We had it with new potatoes and some sprouts and additional gravy. It really was very delicious.
There was yet more left over chicken for last night. We had hat with mushrooms in a cream sauce. Likewise delicious.
And that was the end of the Sunday chicken. I am not usually quite so profligate with it. It does lunchtime sandwiches and dinner up to at least Wednesday normally, eked out with more vegetables and other things. However we are out to dinner tonight and then away for ten days and it wanted using up!
I made cheese straws with the left over puff pastry. They vanished within minutes of coming out of the oven!!
(Puff pastry rolled out quite thinly, covered with grated cheese, wholegrain mustard smeared over, pastry folded over thrice then rolled out again quite thinly. Slice into thick straws, twist around a time or two, you should probably brush them with an egg wash but I don't bother, then bake until puffed and crispy)
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