A long-simmered stew made with dried fruit and nuts is typically Catalan. Ferran Adri's version starts with a store-bought rotisserie chicken—the ones in Spain are superdelicious—finished with a quick fruit-and-nut sauce that uses the flavorful poultry drippings. Quick Chicken Recipes
Chicken is healthy, inexpensive, and easy to make, but let's be real: Chicken leftovers can get pretty boring. After all, how many times can you eat chicken salad, chicken-filled nachos, or chicken fried rice before you're over it? It's too bad, really, because picking up rotisserie chicken is the best way to put dinner on the table for only $5. If you're shopping at Costco, that price gets you a 3-pound cooked chicken, which is not only almost twice as heavy as most grocery stores but it's also less than the price of buying raw chicken breasts.
Yes, rotisserie chicken can be a lunch- and dinner-time savior, but you need leftover ideas that push the envelope, taking the chicken recipes you love and turning them on their head. These deeply satisfying recipe ideas taste like you've been planning them for weeks and got up early in the morning to make it all happen. All with little to no effort on your part!So what are you waiting for? Pick up an extra chicken at the store to ensure you haveleftoversand take your leftover game to the next level with thesegenius ways to use up a leftover rotisserie chicken.
Some people are weirded out by the combination of chicken and eggs, but we think it tastes fantastic. You could make a breakfast hash with leftover rotisserie chicken, sure, or you could do something different for brunch this weekend. Chicken is a classic component of chilaquiles, a traditional Mexican breakfast dish made by simmering fried tortilla strips in red or green salsa. The dish is then topped with warm shredded chicken, cheese and sour cream, and fried or scrambled eggs.
If you can't stand the thought of chicken and eggs together at breakfast, try making congee, a savory rice porridge that's a popular breakfast in China. To make it, add 8 cups of water, 1 cup of white rice, and a pinch of salt to a slow cooker. That might seem like a lot of water, but trust us; it's necessary to get the rice to a polenta-like consistency. Cook the mixture on low for about 10 hours until the rice is thick and soft. Then, stir in three cups of reheated chicken along with minced fresh ginger, roasted peanuts, and chopped cilantro or whatever other toppings sound simple and delicious.
Classic chicken salad can be kind of dull: diced chicken breast mixed in a mayonnaise dressing alongside celery, walnuts, and apples. The flavors totally work, but it can get boring after a while. Take advantage of having leftover rotisserie chicken by making a few fun twists on chicken salad. Because your leftover chicken contains white and dark meat, this version will automatically be juicier and richer than recipes that use chicken breast because dark meat has more flavor than white meat.
One of our favorite quick-and-easy weeknight dinners is stuffed potatoes. The traditional sour-cream-and-chive baked potato is often relegated to its role as a side dish, but it's filling and satisfying enough to serve as a main if you include a filling protein like leftover shredded rotisserie chicken. If your preference leans towards sweet potatoes, go for it. Otherwise, look to starchy Idaho or russet potatoes. Bake either kind at 425 degrees Fahrenheit for 50 minutes to an hour, until the skins are dry and the potato is soft all the way through when pierced with a fork.
All that to say, the easiest way to make your leftover shredded rotisserie chicken taste wonderful is to add cheese to the mix. These types of meals can come in many forms: quesadillas, casseroles, pizza, flatbread, or nachos. If you really want to take things to the next level, make a batch of nacho cheese and smother your chicken and chips with the ooey, gooey mixture. Having trouble getting your nacho cheese to a stadium-worthy level of creaminess? We can help with that; you might be making a common mistake, like using the wrong cheese or too much heat.
We would apologize for the bad pun here, but it turns out the sentiment is true: There are endless ways to transform leftover rotisserie chicken into a meal when you introduce noodles into the mix. It doesn't even have to be traditional, Italian pasta shapes, either. There are a ton of Asian-style noodles like soba, ramen, udon, and somen, or you can think outside the grain and use spaghetti squash, spiralized zucchini zoodles, or thinly sliced eggplants as lasagna noodles.
From there, it's easy to use chicken in your favorite pasta dishes. Swap chicken in for ground beef in lasagna recipes, use it to make baked ziti and stuffed shells, or whip up a batch of super creamy mac and cheeseand add shredded rotisserie chicken at the end. f you're going Asian-style, the process is similarly straightforward; chicken is an excellent choice for stir-fry dishes with sesame or peanut sauces, and adding a soba or lo mein noodles is a great way to make chicken and vegetables more filling.
Who needs pulled pork for barbecue when you have leftover rotisserie chicken?
Pulled pork is delicious no doubt but it's not necessarily easy to make. It takes hours on a smoker or in a Dutch oven, and although a slow cooker is a hands-off cooking method, that doesn't mean it can create shredded pork in an instant. So, why not swap in leftover rotisserie chicken? We already know how easy it is to shred and store the stuff, and it's not like you had to wait to cook it, either.
Let's just make a quick point here: a supermarket rotisserie chicken is tasty enough for most folks and is often cheaper than buying a chicken of the same quality. So if you are going to invest the time in doing it yourself, you don't want to aim for the same results - you want better results, or at least equally good, while not being Texas BBQ or Lemon Pepper.
Rotisserie chickens are pretty amazing. Oh, sure they're delightfully convenientall you have to do to prepare one is pick it up from the store and carve itbut what we really love about these birds is how awesome they taste. There's nothing quite like a slow-cooked chicken, with its sticky-in-the-good-way skin and juicy meat. Whether you buy your chicken or fake it at home with a faux-tisserie, you're not going to want to waste a single ounce of that meat. Here's how to get the most out of your rotisserie chicken, all the way down to the bones.
You know what tacos were made for? Leftover shredded meat. Okay, so maybe that's not historically accurate, but warm tortillas are inarguably great vehicles for yesterday's rotisserie chicken. You don't even need a recipe—just follow these guidelines, and load that tortilla up with avocado, salsa, queso frescoor sour cream, and all the heat you can handle.
Is a made-from-scratch chicken soup awesome? Apustu egiten duzu. But so is a fast-and-easy chicken soup with leftover rotisserie meat. Start by sautéing some bite-sized veggies with whatever flavor combination you're into. Two great options to jump-start your creativity: Go classic with garlic and heady herbs like rosemary and sage, or choose crumbled dried chiles for a little spice. Then, add broth and simmer the vegetables until tender. Whether or not you include noodles, rice, or grains is your prerogative. Just be sure not to add the chicken until a few minutes before serving. You'll need to give it time to warm up, but simmering it with the vegetables will render it overcooked.
