poor man's breast filets

bulletandpima
Fri, 29 May 2009 07:44:05 +0000

I watch the supermarket circulars. We have Harris Teeters, Giant, Safeway, Bloom and Food Lion. Harris Teeters’ about every 6 weeks runs a weekend special. Buy 1 get 2 free on fresh chicken breasts, they limit you to 6. I go everyday and buy 6 packs each day. The cost for about 12 pounds of fresh chcken breasts boned, is @10, you can’t beat it. Sometimes I will even have Bullet stop if he is running errands. I then place in the freezer and am set until the next sale.


I find fresh is more tender than frozen. Typically at HT, 3 weeks later they will run the same buy 1/get 2 free on the frozen bag of chicken breasts and I do buy that, but only do it 1 day.

The best marinade I have is my kids favorite. Teriyaki. I place the ingredients in a large ziplock bag and throw the chicken in the morning of or the night before. The marinade takes 2 seconds and it is so easy to remember.

1 1/2 cups water
1/2 cup soy sauce (I use low sodium and store brand is fine)
1/4 brown sugar
1 tsp of crushed garlic.

You can add 1/4 tsp of fresh ginger if you have it, but it really doesn’t make that big of a difference.

I love lamb, so if you like lamb, here’s the easiest marinade, Greek salad dressing and then call it a day.

Here are my 2 cheap, easy meals that no matter the quality of chicken it tastes great, plus freezes really well.


Chicken Cacciatore.


1 sm. onion diced
4 oz of mushrooms
4 slices of bacon (chopped, before frying)
1 tblsp of garlic ( YES TBLSP)
1 large can of diced tomatoes, best if you buy the one with spices so you don’t have to add it (oregano, basil)
1 package of chicken thighs or legs.
1 can of chicken broth

Brown the onion, mushrroom, garlic and bacon together, remove. Brown chicken in left over grease. Add the rest of the ingredients, cover and cook in low oven 275 for @ 2 hrs. When you take the chicken out, the bones will fall off, so just remove them.
Day 1 it will be just large pieces of marinated chicken, like stew.
Day 2, it will break down more and be like chilli.
That recipe easily feeds 6. EASILY. In my house it feeds all 5 of us, and then I still have enough for 2 individual plastic containers, that Bullet can take to work for lunch.


White Chicken Chilli


1 can of white beans (DO NOT DRAIN)
2 chicken breasts diced
1 sm onion diced
1 can of chicken broth
1 tsp of crushed garlic
1 sm can of diced green chillies
1/4 tsp of oregano

Saute chicken, garlic and onion together. Add the remaining ingredients cook for about 30 minutes, just so sauce will thicken.

Finally the best marinating ingredient for anything if you want to be natural are tomatoes, their acidity breaks the meat down and tenderizes it.