{"id":2258,"date":"2014-10-25T16:40:12","date_gmt":"2014-10-25T11:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/?p=2258"},"modified":"2014-12-03T17:44:09","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T12:14:09","slug":"preparing-shredded-chicken-recipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/preparing-shredded-chicken-recipe\/","title":{"rendered":"Recipe: Shredded Chicken"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 135px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prasadgupte.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/11\/shredded_chiken_.jpg\" alt=\"Getting ready\" width=\"135\" height=\"184\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getting ready<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In an earlier <a title=\"Recipe: Oven-toasted Chicken Bruschettas\" href=\"http:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/oven-toasted-chicken-bruschettas-recipe\/\" target=\"_blank\">recipe<\/a>, I mentioned my plans to\u00a0write a cookbook, exclusive to recipes using shredded chicken as the key ingredient. This post is\u00a0chapter 1: &#8220;<em>Preparing your key ingredient<\/em>&#8220;. As simple as it sounds, boiling chicken is an art. The trick\u00a0is to cook the chicken without leaving\u00a0it too dry. And here is how:<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Procedure:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Take enough water in a large vessel to fit the chicken pieces and bring it to boil &#8211; WITHOUT the chicken<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cut the chicken breasts (or other pieces) into sizable chunks<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Once the water is boiling, reduce the flame &amp; drop\u00a0the chicken pieces into the vessel<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">While the chicken boils, keep skimming the foamy protein that floats on the top (as shown below)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 408px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/prasadgupte.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/11\/shredded_chiken_-1.jpg\" alt=\"Skimming off the Albumin\" width=\"408\" height=\"286\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skimming off the Albumin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Only 2 minutes later, turn off the flame &amp; cover with a lid<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">15 minutes later, the chicken is ready to shred<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure style=\"width: 338px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/prasadgupte.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/11\/shredded_chiken_-2.jpg\" alt=\"Ready for use!\" width=\"338\" height=\"371\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ready for use!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The pieces are no longer hard enough to be cut, so you can either shred with your fingers, or pull with a fork. Depending on what you&#8217;re cooking, you can decide how fine to shred. I leave slightly larger chunks for pizzas, sandwiches, etc and prefer a finer version for soups, nachos, etc. Excess chicken can be stored in the deep freezer for a couple of weeks, but except some degradation each time you thaw it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you&#8217;re a real chicken fan, you wouldn&#8217;t waste the\u00a0stock that&#8217;s left behind. When you follow the above method, the stock is not concentrated enough for consumption. So I add half of a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.maggi.in\/magic_cubes.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Maggi Magic cube<\/a>\u00a0and use the stock for further cooking or just add pepper and have it as clear soup. I&#8217;m clearly a chicken fan \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an earlier recipe, I mentioned my plans to\u00a0write a cookbook, exclusive to recipes using shredded chicken as the key ingredient. This post is\u00a0chapter 1: &#8220;Preparing your key ingredient&#8220;. As simple as it sounds, boiling chicken is an art. The trick\u00a0is to cook the chicken without leaving\u00a0it too dry. And here is how: Procedure: Take &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/preparing-shredded-chicken-recipe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Recipe: Shredded Chicken<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[205],"tags":[91,845,955],"class_list":["post-2258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","tag-chicken","tag-recipe","tag-shredded-chicken"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}