Topic: Cost of chicken for your curries

[Peripatetic Phil]

Keep your eyes open for farmers markets and food festivals in your area and get to know your local smallholders selling at them. You can get very good quality meats often for less than you would pay at the butchers or supermarket. They tend to specialise in proper breeds aswell. Even my local prison rears/grows top notch produce that it sells through its farm shop. Food for thought maybe...

Much as I like farmers' markets for the atmosphere and the "step back in time" experience, I have yet to encountered one where the meat is not over-priced w.r.t. the local butchers.  Perhaps there are places in the country where it is more economical to sell from a stall than a shop, but here in deepest Kent that would appear not to be the case.

** Phil.

[marco73]

I live in an area where there is a big Asian community. I go to the halal butchers. I pay anything from ?1.80 to ?2.80 per chicken breast. They are big juicy breasts! When I make chicken tikka, I get 20-25 cubes of meat from one breast. Excellent quality.

[Kylie1969]

Meg, it would be much cheaper buying whole chicken breasts and dicing it yourself as they charge extra for doing it for you

Just wondering how much people pay for their chicken? I've been using tesco value diced chicken breast, bit expensive I think at around 6 pound for around 800g. At the local Asian store they said they charge only 4pd per kilo.

What price do you pay, and is the chicken from Asian stores usually good quality?

[Kylie1969]

We pay about $10.99 a kilo for chicken breasts and $11.99 a kilo for chicken thigh

There was a time when chicken breast was more expensive than thigh, now it is reversed

The Indian restaurants over here used to cook with the thighs, now with the breasts, they are trying to go with the cheaper option I guess

What do you guys prefer to use in your curries?

[Peripatetic Phil]

What do you guys prefer to use in your curries?

For me, breast every time (currently

[Kylie1969]

Hey Phil 

Yes we like to use chicken breast, but for certain curries we use the thigh as we find that the thigh does not seem as dry...although at the restaurant we frequent, their chicken breast curries are never dry

Free range would taste fabulous 

[gazman1976]

i have just used the below website for ordering chicken breasts - ?5 per Kilo, delivery on Wednesday, will let you know what they are like

http://www.musclefood.com/chicken-breast-fillets-bulk.html/

[Peripatetic Phil]

i have just used the below website for ordering chicken breasts - ?5 per Kilo, delivery on Wednesday, will let you know what they are like  -- http://www.musclefood.com/chicken-breast-fillets-bulk.html/

When they go free-range, I'll consider them :

No bullsh1t muscle food review!

    Our chicken is not free range at the moment, but we have plans to introduce a free range option soon - although this will obviously cost a little more.

    Above all, we care about the quality and taste of the meat! Look out for our free range options coming soon!

    Any questions feel free to PM me, thanks guys!

    http://www.musclefood.com/leeds

** Phil.

[RubyDoo]

Smithfield market. Prices just gone up. 

[littlebadger]

I use chicken thighs from lidl at ?2.69 for 1KG.
I just peel the skin off and the bone in each thigh adds to the taste of the curry.