Uses for leftover rotisserie chicken?

[Gumbo4x4]

Heat it with dry ranch dressing mix and butter. Cook bowtie pasta and peas. Mix it all together, enjoy

 

[HannaBelle]

Chicken Broccoli Casserole

Layer the following ingredients in a 9x13 casserole dish:

4 to 6 cups of frozen broccoli florets
4 cups of shredded/deboned rotisserie chicken
2 cans of cream of chicken soup (do not add water or milk)
Sprinkle with pepper to your liking
Cover with a chees of your choice. We go old school 70’s and use American slices

Bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 24 to 28 minutes.

This is a family favorite and what we are having for dinner tonight. It takes about 5 minutes to assemble and it super easy to make.

Otherwise, I make chicken salad with apples, grapes, celery, purple onion and various spices with mayo and Dijon mustard. Yummy!

 

[kt_mom]

I like to shred it up and warm it on the stovetop with taco seasoning and heavy cream until the cream starts to soak in. I

Meanwhile boil some pasta, I like to use linguine for this and then add to chicken and serve.

 

[Minnesota!]

We get the Costco rotisserie chickens each time we go. I bring it home, throw it in the fridge to cool. Then I pull all the meat off and put it in a bowl. Entire carcass goes in a pot of water and boiled with all my leftover veggie scraps that I keep in the freezer (onion peels, celery leaves, carrot ends and scraps, etc). Boil that, drain, cool, scrape off fat. Then I freeze it for whenever I am going to make soup, etc. I then take the shredded meat and make chicken salad with half - ring pasta, grapes, chicken, mayo, salt/pepper, celery, red onion.

The other half I use for various things - chicken in gravy over potatoes, quesadillas, small batches of soup, straight up sandwiches.

I made a big batch of chicken noodle soup yesterday...used the 2 big containers of broth I had from our last rotisserie. Mixed in some chopped, cooked chicken breasts, 2 bags of frozen mixed veg, a bunch of spices, 1/2 a chopped onion, a few ribs of celery. Cooked for a few hours on simmer. Added in 1/2 bag egg noodles at the end. It's very tasty

 

[Minnesota!]

Heat it with dry ranch dressing mix and butter. Cook bowtie pasta and peas. Mix it all together, enjoy

This sounds really good!!

 

[Gumbo4x4]

This sounds really good!!

We usually make it with leftover turkey. I'd just as soon have THIS for Thanksgiving

 

[njmom47]

Chicken Divan
Throw the chicken in the bottom of the pan, cover with broccoli, a can or two of cream of chicken soup, shredded cheddar, a few breadcumbs on top.
Chicken Pot Pie
I buy the refrigerated pie crust, throw the chicken in the pan, cover with a couple of cans of cream of chicken soup or gravy, 2 bags of frozen mixed veggies, cover with pie crust, bake. There's never a drop left.

Either one...yummy!!

 

[goofyintoronto]

I usually just make a chicken soup! Im a cheater, i just buy the chicken broth, add the chicken pieces, pasta shells or elbows, carrots, peas, whatever veggies you want. So yummy!

I'd also make a chicken/veggie wrap, quesadilla, add the chicken in a pasta dish, or add it on a salad.

 

[elgerber]

It makes tasty quesadillas. Super easy and fast too.

 

[lynxstch]

Where were you 78 carcasses ago!!! I always throw it out. I use chicken broth from the box at least 4 times a week. Can you PM with more specifics? Put it in the crock pot or a pot? I'd just use it as chicken broth. Thank you

I always roast a whole chicken in the crockpot, after we are done with dinner,, I take most of the meat off the bone, put the carcass back in the crockpot with about 4 cups of water, put it on low and let it cook overnite, Next day I cool it, strain it and freeze the broth in Ziploc bags or containers for when I feel like soup, or I need it to add to stuffing, gravy, or whatever!

 

[lovemygoofy]

I'm making buffalo chicken pasta this week with leftover chicken.

I use dry ranch dressing mix on the chicken warmed up in a skillet with some onion and mushrooms. I make up a light cream sauce and mix with buffalo sauce throw in the warmed up ranch chicken and add to cooked pasta in a casserole dish. I mix in a can drained diced tomatoes and throw in some feta or blue cheese and bake for about 20 minutes or so at 350.

It's also fun to make stuffed crescent rolls or biscuits with shredded chicken and buffalo sauce with cheese. I serve with cut up veggies and dip for a quick meal.

ETA: I also make my own broth with leftover chicken bones. I throw in a crock pot full of water with bag of cheap mixed frozen soup veggies but I do cheat and add a bouillon cube
just for little extra flavor.

 

[wallawallakids]

Chicken and black bean burritos (Actually made these today for the kids' lunches using leftover roasted chicken from last night!)

Chicken pot pie

Fried rice with Chicken

Tossed in pasta

Quesadillas

Asian slaw

Chicken tacos

Cesar Salad.

Chicken noodle soup

YUM!

 

[pigletgirl]

Hey, thanks for the ideas! I think I might do creamy cheese enchiladas and add chicken and spinach to them. I will definitely keep these for reference for later!

 

[SueInBoston]

Heat it with dry ranch dressing mix and butter. Cook bowtie pasta and peas. Mix it all together, enjoy

Made it for tonight's dinner, didn't have peas so substituted it with broccoli. Delicious

 

[pigletgirl]

Made it for tonight's dinner, didn't have peas so substituted it with broccoli. Delicious

I will need to remember this! Sounds great!

 

[pixiewings71]

Where were you 78 carcasses ago!!! I always throw it out. I use chicken broth from the box at least 4 times a week. Can you PM with more specifics? Put it in the crock pot or a pot? I'd just use it as chicken broth. Thank you

I put the bones, skin, some of the meat and any fat from cooking the chicken in a pot. When I make my chicken I usually add onions and celery or peppers to the dish and I either cook it in the crock pot or in the oven, I add these items and all the juice to the stock pot with my chicken carcass. I also buy boneless, skinless breasts and cut them into cubes and while I do this I save any pieces of fat/meat that I end up trimming off and throw those in the freezer to use when I make broth as well. I don't add seasonings, no salt, no pepper, nothing, sometimes I add in some garlic but that's also rare. I prefer my broth to be plain because I prefer to add the seasonings when I'm making my soup or whatever I'm using it for. I cook it on the stove top on medium for 4-8 hours then put it in the fridge to cool, the next day I skim the fat off the top and then freeze it. Super easy and it's so much better than the store bought broth, so much less sodium. I do this with rotisserie chickens from the store or with chicken I have cooked myself. I also do it with turkey (I cook the turkey broth for a minimum of 8 hours so I usually put it on at bedtime and just let it cook overnight at a lower heat, or I do it the next day keeping the carcass in the fridge), I also do it with vegetables to make veggie broth. I keep a bag in the freezer and put odds and ends of veggies in it until it's full, then I boil them all down to make a veggie broth. I've also done it with beef, sometimes our local grocery store will have tri tip on sale for 99 cents a lb but it's a big bulk cut, I ask the butcher to cut it down for me (and they always do and it's free) and they will cut off the fat and wrap that so I can make beef broth as well.

 

[Grumpy's Gal]

we had it tonight with Instant mashed potatoes, a can of campbells gravy, green beans, biscuits