Get the most from your roast chicken with these three deliciously easy recipes

Make your meals go further with these three easy peasy chicken recipes.

Katie Pix shows us how to make the perfect roast chicken, before finding a clever way to use the scraps to make two other delicious dishes.

Including a super tasty pasta and a warming chicken soup.

INGREDIENTS:

1 x Whole chicken

50g of Butter

3 x Sprigs of thyme

2 x Lemon

1 x Carrot

1 x Celery

1 x Red onion

6 x Black peppercorns

1 x Bay leaf

1 x Handful of spaghetti

Salt and pepper to taste

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DIRECTIONS:

1. Combine two sprigs of thyme, salt and pepper with the butter and mix well.

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2. Rub the butter on the chicken and place the chopped lemon inside.

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3. Cook for an hour and 20 minutes at 180 degrees.

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4. Serve the chicken and keep the carcass and any scraps of chicken.

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5. Add the chicken carcass, chopped carrot, celery, red onion, peppercorns, bay leaf and sprig of thyme into a large pot and cover with boiling water and let simmer for 20 minutes.

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6. This will give you some soup, and now to boil the pasta and chicken scraps.

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7. Drain the chicken and pasta and combine with the soup.

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