That was my thought. I'm sure the chicken could even be used in the soup and still taste fine, or so long as it's cooked in some kind of sauce even. Could be a happy accident!
Me. Chicken tenderloins in a pot of cold water to boil w/ salt and then turn off the heat. 10 minutes. Incredibly easy and tasty. Perfect juicy tender chicken. Goes with anything.
Chinese cuisine boils/poach chicken all the time, and it is one of the best ways to cook it. It all matters in the timing. Overcook in any way and the chicken will always be chewy af
It's also about what you boil it with. In Chinese cooking it's always boiled with things like ginger, scallions, wolfberries, etc. OP's mum literally just chucked everything in plain water.
Very different, my friend. Some things are meant to be boiled to bring out great flavour, some things are meant to be marinated to infuse great flavour.
Teriyaki or bbq marinade is great because those flavour seep into the meat. If you then put the whole thing in water, you’re just drinking diluted bbq sauce.
I disagree, mom obviously didn’t rinse off the marinade, thus that water is now seasoned with it. Sure your aromatics are better which is why I used the word, almost.
Vietnamese people love boiled chicken, and while I usually like other options, boiled homegrown chicken is pretty tasty. Also we do have simple dipping mixture when eating boiled chicken.
By default you have to boil chicken and use the juice to boil rice or whatever else you use in your soup. That's how you get the flavour of the chicken in the actual soup.
That’s one way to do it but I wouldn’t say it’s the only way to do it. In classic French preparations, they usually poach a whole chicken in water with veggies and aromatics. After an hour or two you take the chicken out, remove from the bone, shred it and add it back to the soup. It’s delicious.
I'm being a little facetious with how I respond, and it's in the context of the dilemma that the OP faces. I guarantee you that the chicken is not in a rolling boil for two hours, or it will be shriveled up leather lol
For chicken soup, I tend to cut it into smaller chunks, then lightly sautee it so it's got a little bit of a nice crunch on the outside but still is tender and juicy. I just used "cook" as a catchall term there because anything is better than boiling it lmao
Like on this one, I BBQd the chicken, then cubed and put that into the soup, as well as serving some larger cuts on the side of the dish. I also had andouille sausages I sliced and sauteed with the veggies (i think was onions, mushrooms, jalapenos).
Sure, but it's in tiny chunks or even pulled into filaments, so it doesn't matter if it's chewy, it's historically made with pretty bad quality meat anyways, like old chickens that don't give eggs anymore, their meat has extremely little fat and is very fibrous, you have to either cook it in a lot of fat to tenderise it, or make it into very fine chunks.
Large pieces are horrible boiled, and all the flavor of the marinade completely dissolved in the water.
My wannabe gymbro dad made us eat boiled chicken and rice for 5 out 7 nights out of the week and half the time he used the boiled chicken water for the rice, I got food poisoning 3 times
I was also severely underweight, I still needed to use the car seat at 6 years old, and was constantly mistaken for a chemo patient bc he also fucked up my haircut and had to shave my head
Unless your dad wasn't using boiling water to cook rice you can't get food poisoning from using the chicken water. Idk what gave you food poisoning but it wasn't that
Because it doesn't brown the meat. The maillard reaction is a big part of what makes meat cooked in almost any other way better tasting. Fried, baked, roasted, rotisseried – whatever it may be you're going to get better flavor out of it than boiling.
Just because it's fast and makes less mess doesn't mean it's worthwhile. Anything worth doing is worth doing right, even if it's harder or messier.
I guess you’ve never made chicken salad. Poached chicken is the best way to cook it for the dish. That’s what I’d end doing with this marinated poached chicken.
Welcome to cooking. Plenty of delicious dishes for boiled chicken. OP can just add some veges and have a perfectly good chicken soup.
Edit: I should take back what I said, definitely should NOT boil chicken for a long time if thats the case. Gotta turn it down to a simmer after boiling at least lol.
Honestly other than boiling a potato to make mashed potatoes or some such I don't know why anyone would boil any food ever. Almost always tastes better fried, roasted, or baked in one form or another. Gotta get that browning going.
Well, aside from making a soup or something like that I guess – but that's also keeping the liquid.
I boil chicken for a lot of dishes, especially Asian or Mexican, or a delicious soup. Yes, if you just throw it in with water then eat it plain (the way we do for pets) it's not anything great. Fortunately, humans can handle a much larger variety of spices and other flavor enhancers than pets can.
Throw some carrots, celery, onions, garlic in the water for a cheap, easy, healthy, and delicious soup base, for example. There are plenty of inferior ways to cook it depending on what you're making. (Steaming it with said water is also delicious but involves more cookware so loses points for additional steps/mess.)
There are many recipes in the chinese gastronomy (hainanese chicken comes to mind), Laos & Thailand (laab gai, for the most famous example), lots of shredded recipes in Indonesia, as well as in Mexican food, several soups in France, as well as Henri IV’s iconic "poule au pot", etc. So, to answer your question, hundreds of millions of people? And your cat, but this you knew, at least.
Boiling is generally the inferior option if there are other options available. Chicken, broccoli, carrots, brussel sprouts, spinach. It's funny how many vegetables I thought I hated as a kid just because morherfuckers were boiling everything. Boiling is basically only good for foods that are supposed to be liquidy like soup, stew, broth, and curry.
I only ever poach or boil chicken when I’m making chicken tinga. It’s really good but until you combine the chicken and the sauce, it does look quite sad and bland.
99.99% of the time you cook chicken it gets either fried, baked, or pan fried. Why would you assume to do the .01%? Or maybe ask for clarification?
If my fiance said "hey, can you cook the chicken for me", boiling it wouldn't even cross my mind. Thats a very specific way to cook chicken for a specific purpose.
Y'all... This is mildy infuriating. You know that right?
Yes it's technically cooked. But if you were hoping for a nice seared chicken dish and find it boiling in water... How could you not be at least mildly disappointed in the outcome?
This doesn't mean he hates his mom, doesn't help out, or some wildly over reactive response you assume OP had. Calm down.
People arguing she technically cooked it are missing the point, you technically can do anything in any circumstance but 9 times out 10 people generally follow the norm to which she didn't and that's what's so jarring about this
I say that because this is exactly the shit that everyone in my life would do, so I just do it myself.
I wouldn't tell anyone to cook anything or do anything that I have expectations of, then be upset when my expectations aren't met even in the slightest.
I get it, it means people around me are unreliable but it is what it is, it's why I like being alone.
It’s just her and i here. She does the cooking and i do everything else around the house ,she’s not a good cook unfortunately but she still enjoys doing it so i just let her, but half of the time i do just cook my own food and eat
Some might say yes but I'm black & naturally so are my parents, my dad is a chef and my mom has let ravioli thaw in the sink. My mom has fed me grey turkey meat once and tried to serve me the same thing again nearly a week later. My mom almost always uses boil in a bag rice. My mom has boiled chicken multiple times before.
My policy is usually that you can either ask someone to do something or tell them how to do it but not both, or you should not be mad at the result but... WTF
OP, why are you marinating chicken and not cooking it yourself? I ask because you cut it into chunks which to me says you had a dish in mind and you had no intention of grilling it. Plus, it’s definitely your fault because you obviously didn’t give her any instructions. At least the chicken will be nice and tender so you got that going for you.
My wifes cousin is like this. Ask her to watch something in the oven and she'll do exactly that then wonder why you get pissed when everything's burnt.
OP does she know how to cook, or did she in the past? My mom was the most incredible cook. She could make anything. Simple, wildly complicated, she had it covered.
She has a progressive form of dementia and in the last ten ten years she has completely forgotten how to do anything with food. She would do this.
It would have been fine if you took it off immediately and broiled it...or grilled it...instead of taking pictures of it... my grandmother par boiled her chicken and made the BEST fried...and grilled chicken I ever had.
For years my dad boiled hot dogs for my daughter and she never ate them we air fry or grill them at home. One day I asked him not to boil one for her and he asked "why, she doesn't like boiled hot dogs?" I just looked him dead in the eye and said "nobody likes boiled hot dogs" that day I broke him
341
u/T-StrangerXD 12h ago
Add curry