Chicken casserole
Chicken recipesBBC Food has hundreds of delicious chicken recipes chicken casserole classic roast chicken to the ultimate chicken soup. A roast chicken seems to me to be the ultimate comfort meal for all the family.
And it’s so versatile: serve as a classic Sunday dinner with roast potatoes, or with a selection of salads or side dishes. The plight of the cheap chicken has been much publicised and as such the consumer now has more choice than ever. Value chickens for well under a fiver, free-range, organic, corn fed – there’s a cornucopia of options. A whole chicken can be frozen for up to 9 months if well-wrapped to stop any air getting in. A stock can be made from the carcass and turned into a risotto or broth on the third night. It’s often considerably cheaper to buy a whole chicken and joint it yourself, than to buy ready-prepared breasts and leg joints. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.
Read about our approach to external linking. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. For the culinary use of chickens, see Chicken as food. Male and female chicken sitting together. Chickens are one of the most common and widespread domestic animals, with a total population of 23. 7 billion as of 2018, up from more than 19 billion in 2011. In 2011 a study in genetic and archaeological evidence conclude that the origin of the modern-day chicken is from Southeast Asia.
Dunghill fowl: a chicken with mixed parentage from different domestic varieties. Pullet: a young female chicken less than a year old. In the poultry industry, a pullet is a sexually immature chicken less than 22 weeks of age. In fact, chicken was originally a term only for an immature, or at least young, bird. In older sources, chicken as a species were typically referred to as common fowl or domestic fowl. Chick is then rarely used to mean chicken, but is mainly used in Merriam-Webster’s “Sense 1b” viz.
This section needs expansion with: the origin of the term ‘chicken’ in general. You can help by adding to it. In most breeds the adult rooster can be distinguished from the hen by his larger comb. In the wild, they often scratch at the soil to search for seeds, insects, and even animals as large as lizards, small snakes, or sometimes young mice. 10 years, depending on the breed. The world’s oldest known chicken lived 16 years according to Guinness World Records.
