Neil Saavedra

It is the go-to Hail Mary of anybody with kids or having to make a meal if you work.

And it's always great.

Now, is it high in sodium?

Yeah, they're high in sodium.

But are they delicious?

Yeah.

The good thing is that you can break them down

quite easily and use them for different things, whether you do chicken enchiladas or you want to make tacos with the meat or sandwiches or you want to put it in a rice pilaf, whatever it is, it's pretty versatile.

And when you break it down and get the meat from the bones, you actually have quite a lot to deal with that you could put into a salad, whatever it is, and it freezes well.

So

It's a wonderful tool for everyday cooking when you just can't, you know, throw chicken on the rotisserie in your own house.

I will suggest you could do the same by boiling a chicken.

That's what my mom did.

I remember this on Sundays, she would boil a chicken and just pull it apart.

And it wasn't necessarily for Sunday, but it would be used throughout the week in different, you know, meals.

So you can boil a chicken and do this.

You can also do this with your own roasted chicken or if you want to grill it or make a rotisserie on the grill if you've got one.

I've done chickens on my big green egg, whole chickens, and I love them.

So ultimately what it is, is when you cook it,

like that, it really wants to separate the bones on its own.