This Recipe for Roast Chicken is perfect for freezer meals. I love this recipe because you can make a bulk amount and prepare four chicken recipes with it for freezer cooking. We also love to cook my whole chickens in my crockpot too! I like to prep it in advance and then freeze it for when I am ready to use it. It is great recipe for when you find chicken on sale.
Weight Watchers Points Plus: 3 Points Per Serving (12 servings chicken)
Recipe for Roast Chicken used in Freezer Meals
Ingredients
- 2 Whole Chickens about 6 lbs each
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 teaspoon salt
- 8 large cloves garlic
Instructions
- Rinse chickens. Season both the inside and outside of the chicken with salt and pepper. Place breast side down on racks in two roasting pans. Toss garlic heads in oil and place in the roasting pans. Roast the chicken and garlic in a 400 degree oven for 1 hour and 10 minutes. Cool. Separate garlic into cloves and squeeze pulp out of each clove into small bowl. Mash with a fork. Remove meat from chicken and dice. Discard skin and bones. Cover and refrigerate for up to three days.
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Marie
Thank you for sharing your recipes. Easy question- do I cover the chickens while roasting?
I do, I think it keeps it more moist.
Aaron
What do I do with the garlic after it's mashed? I'm assuming I mix SOME with chicken but surely not 8 heads.
I personally combine with all 8 cloves of garlic. Roasting the garlic brings a milder flavor but you can discard what you want.
Betty
I want to know, too. What do you do with the garlic after it's mashed? It doesn't say!
Updated with answer for you 🙂
Lorraine
Do you mean 8 cloves of garlic?
Yes, 8 cloves.
Katie
I'm confused. Is it 8 heads or 8 cloves of garlic? That is a huge difference.
Updated - 8 Cloves
JR
I searched the recipes for whole cooked chicken, and I don't see any recipes that actually use this! All the recipes I've seen so far are for raw chicken.
Here is my favorite and I updated the post with 5 more options too! Search cooked chicken and you will get tons more!
https://www.stockpilingmoms.com/2012/06/chicken-divan-freezer-meal/