i always use cheap chicken, i guess a takeaway would do likewise. The thing is whenever frying or boiling once cut into chuncks i always seem to get this scum that comes off the chicken. Its just little bits of chicken that float around in the oil or water, perhaps this realy is just normal but for me i think it quite horrible. It also means i have to pick the chick bacxk out and chuck the oil/water away so that the final dish is no infected with this chicken scum. Maybe this is realy about the use of frozen chicken breasts more than the quality of the meat, i always use frozen due to cost retraints, ie a curry needs to be many times cheaper than a bought equivelent, and 2 fresh chicken breasts come in at about ?2/3 on average from a supermarket. With everything else needed for a curry this would breach the cost of a home cooked curry to about ?5, im sure it dont cost a takeaway anything like that to produce. i thus buy frozen breasts 6 in a pack, i buy 3 packs at a time wich i get for ?10 so 18 breasts, making just over ?1 for the meat of each curry, to me this seems about right.
Im sure many here use high quality meat as after all for your own consumption you want to use the best.Anyhow farmoods 3 packs for ?10 works for me, except for that very annoying chicken scum i need to tackle each time. I would be intrested to know what others do to obtain their meat, maybe im just shopping in the wrong place.
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