Kitchen Trick #2: Thawing Frozen Chicken
I talked about this in my Garlic Brown Sugar Chicken post, but thought it would be good to mention it in my Kitchen Tricks for a little easier access.
One of my biggest problems with cooking dinner is that I usually never actually know where I'm going to be that night or when I will get home. Even on nights I plan on being home to make something for dinner, I usually forget to take the ingredients (usually chicken) out of the freezer.
Luckily, I have found an excellent solution to this predicament. First of all, when I buy a pack of chicken, I pound out the breasts so they are a little bit thinner, then I wrap them individually in plastic wrap and then put them in a freezer bag to protect from the frigid air. This makes it so I can take one or two pieces at a time without having to defrost the whole lot.
The trick to defrosting them isn't really much of a trick, but if you fill a bowl with warm water and submerge the chicken breast for 20 minutes, switching the water out halfway through, the chicken will be defrosted.
One of my biggest problems with cooking dinner is that I usually never actually know where I'm going to be that night or when I will get home. Even on nights I plan on being home to make something for dinner, I usually forget to take the ingredients (usually chicken) out of the freezer.
Luckily, I have found an excellent solution to this predicament. First of all, when I buy a pack of chicken, I pound out the breasts so they are a little bit thinner, then I wrap them individually in plastic wrap and then put them in a freezer bag to protect from the frigid air. This makes it so I can take one or two pieces at a time without having to defrost the whole lot.
The trick to defrosting them isn't really much of a trick, but if you fill a bowl with warm water and submerge the chicken breast for 20 minutes, switching the water out halfway through, the chicken will be defrosted.
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