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[dewinged]

I'm working on stuff, I think. I've been getting the same-old, same-old for food just out of habit. I complained back in December that the local BBQ place, which had my comfort food, had closed down. I'm still bummed about that, because they had these Chicken Cheese Fries which were to die for.

Now, I will not be able to duplicate the recipe. I won't even try. But, I am going to ask and see if I haven't gone nuts.

So, let's take some frozen steak fries and throw them into the oven to cook. That's not too hard; I can use the stove without blowing myself up. It's the rest...

Now, the old BBQ place used pulled chicken. I could conceivably cook some chicken legs, but I run the danger of doing it wrong, from experience. Now, I know they used to have chicken in cans, much in the way they have tuna fish in cans. But, in this case, I might want to seek out canned chicken in spring water. It's...the easy way out, but I need something easy these days.

As for the cheese, nothing a diced 8-ounce block of Velveeta won't fix. Now, I'm considering doing the same thing with my Chili Cheese Dip: Mix the chicken in with the diced Velveeta, and put it in the microwave for about 4 minutes. Will 4 minutes on processed chicken packaged like tuna be enough so I don't give myself Salmonella by accident?

Add hefty amounts of BBQ sauce, put the fries on a place, and pour the melted cheese mix over it.

I...think that might work. Any input from people who actually know how to cook?

Comments

[bentarc.livejournal.com]

Usually chicken that comes processed in a can (like tuna fish) will be cooked as it is - you can eat it straight out of the can (in theory).

It will also tell you if it's cooked or not (I think legally they have to do that).

[tnp.livejournal.com]

I've never seen uncooked canned chicken. Keep an eye on it while you cook it. You don't want to burn the cheese. And yes, you can burn things in a microwave. How long you cook it for will depend in part on how much you make so just watch it.

Sounds good too but what could be bad?

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

www.allrecipes.com -- search for pulled chicken.

[tnp.livejournal.com]

Oh, and to cook your own chicken, just buy some chicken legs and/or thighs. Put in a pot with water and boil them. You can even add some chicken bullion for flavor. Cover and simmer. In an hour, it should fall from the bones with little help needed. You don't really need to worry about overcooking it that way and since canned chicken is pretty much just boiled chicken...

[foxfyre.livejournal.com]

Do you have a crockpot/slow cooker hanging around your kitchen anywhere? If so, the other way you can do the chicken is to get a couple of chicken breasts (boneless, skinless, no messy bits) and throw them in the crockpot. Cover them with barbecue sauce (and I mean cover, they should be pretty well submerged) and cook on LOW for about 8 hours.

They'll be full of barbecue flavor, and easily shredded by pulling the chicken apart with a pair of forks.

Not as easy as canned chicken, but potentially more tasty. :D

[onlyonechoice.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, that sounds delicious.

*might try that this weekend*

[onlyonechoice.livejournal.com]

Hee, trying it today! I'll let you know how it turns out :)

[foxfyre.livejournal.com]

Awesome. Hope it turns out well. :)

[onlyonechoice.livejournal.com]

*continues the Kaylee theme* IT WAS DELICIOUS!

[lightbearer.livejournal.com]

Dirt Easy, No Time and I REALLY Want This Version: Your method will work fine. 4 minutes might be a long time in the microwave even for 8 oz. of Velveeta, though. The only real change I might consider is nuke it for 2 minutes and check it. If it's sufficiently melted, maybe toss the BBQ sauce into the chicken/cheese mixture then and nuke for a bit longer to heat up the BBQ sauce as well.

I Have More Time Versions: Really, I don't have much to add here. Both tnp and foxfyre have the right of it. You can use fox's recipe, shred the chicken with forks in the BBQ sauce, melt Velveeta in the microwave, and add. Or shred the chicken in the BBQ sauce, pour over steak fries, add shredded cheese, let the shredded cheese melt. Or toss in the microwave for like 25 seconds to melt the cheese.

I'll admit that one of my favorite quick-and-dirty chili cheese fries "recipes" is heating up chili from Trader Joe's or (better yet) Ted's Montana Chili and dumping some of that over the aforementioned steak fries, then adding more Kraft 4-Cheese Mexican shredded blend than really should be healthy. :)

[pomr.livejournal.com]

If you're feeling particularly lazy I know I've seen barbecue and or pulled chicken pre-made at the grocery stores around here, so in theory they'd have them there too. :)

[blytheteach.livejournal.com]

Check by the dairy section or cold cut section for premade package food like mached potatoes and stuff, because they make pulled pork in a plastic tub that lloks like a margarine container. it's by Lloyds and it's GOOD> They might have BBQ chicken. Also check by the chicken for something BBQ premade. Why try to reinvent the wheel. If not buy Perdue ready made chicken, nuke it, shred it with a fork, add bbq sauce and viola, pulled bbq chicken ala Kyle.