Christmas meal for my mum

We're vegan. I buy chicken breasts if I must buy poultry for family - though I source very carefully because of bird illnesses.

I use a 2 serving baking tin, brushed with olive oil. Two chicken breasts cleaned, dry, and salted. Place in baking dish. Make fast easy mushroom white sauce with appropriate herbs (we have to avoid gluten, dairy etc, thus we have to make sauces), pour over chicken. I chop stale bread and make large crumb layer for over the top, more sauce, bake, covered half of the time, until chicken is done.

If she tolerates cheese, some fontina is nice on top.

Tesco have a mini chicken breast roast which contains chicken breast wrapped in bacon, a few chipolata sausages and stuffing balls. Straight into the oven in its own little foil tray. You might like the convenience of something like that if you are vegetarian and perhaps not so keen on handling/preparing the chicken. I’m sure most supermarkets do similar but I’ve attached a photo of the Tesco one

I don’t eat meat, but I always cook a whole chicken when DD2 comes over and wrap up what’s left for her to take home.
That could be an option if your Mum is able to use the rest for sandwiches, risotto and soup.

Some more great ideas, thanks for those!

I’m going to go out on a limb (no pun intended) here and say that in my opinion breast can be dry and tasteless.
Thighs (you can buy them boneless but make sure you get them with skin on) are if anything tenderer and moist
Waitrose (other supermarkets are available) do stuffed boneless thighs (4 so it would do 2 meals) which are very easy to cook .
My grandsons love them and call them “Granny’s Special Chicken” when I roast them basted with a little honey or apricot conserve., (the chicken thighs I mean, not the grandsons. )

I wouldn’t breadcrumb it, personally.

I would maybe cut it across to open it up, and stuff it with Stilton or Boursin cheese, then wrap bacon or Parma ham round it. Depends if your mum would like that though.

I usually cook chicken breast in the slow cooker, to keep it moist, so don’t really do it other ways very often.

That's a great idea, thank you Germandshepherdsmum.

Thank you all.

A chicken breast topped with bacon and baked with a couple of pigs in blankets on the side.

Thing is now, if I cook it too well she will start buying me joints of meat!

She could never understand me being "One of them vegetarians!"

Could you buy her a chicken...or turkey... rolled breast joint which comes with some stuffing ready to cook in a foil tray. Which will give her some left over for sandwiches or cold the next day or 2.
I find chicken breast cooked on its own can be quite tough unless poached.

What does your mum prefer?
Breast is great so long as its not over cooked. Just a thought though in sainsbury they cut meat off the bone you could ask them to slice you some and she could have some for tea in a sandwich. And you can warm the chicken/Turkey in the gravy

You could wrap the breast in some streaky bacon and cover with foil to roast.

Yes, one breast will be fine. Might she like some pigs in blankets too? If you have a local butcher he might be happy to sell you just a couple of chipolatas and rashers of streaky bacon if you explain your predicament.

Thank you both. It sounds like the sensible thing, should I just cook the breast with a bit of oil then cook, or coat it with something like breadcrumbs....?

I’d go for breast also.

I m vegi too but I go for breast if it was me especially for someone elderly