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magnusfide
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Mar 01, 2019

50 Ways to Use Your Leftover Rotiss Chicken

Every now and then someone asks for easy OTR meals and someone always mentions the baked rotisserie chickens that can be found at most stores these days.

Here's a thread dedicated to ideas for the leftover rotiss chicken. I'll start it off with an easy one.
1. Fried Rice.
Leftover rice.
Leftover vegetables.
Leftover chicken shredded.
Scrambled eggs.

Feel free to add to the list. Let's see if we can come up with 50 ideas or more.
  • Chicken
    Pillsbury pie crust
    can of mixed veggies
    gravy mix

    Chicken pot pie
  • Shred the chicken
    Casserole dish ....layer if corn tortillas, enchilada sauce, chicken, cheese, jalapenos.
    Repeat layer
    Bake in oven at 350*F for 35 minutes/covered...then uncover/10 more minutes



    Shred chicken
    Canola oil in skillet
    Warm corn tortillas in microwave for 25 seconds....wrap them in damp paper towel
    Then roll them up with chicken and fry.....2 minutes each side
    Seer with fresh guacamole


    Chunk the chicken
    Mix with diced onions, celery, sweet pickles---salt/pepper & mayo
    Lightly toast bread of choice
    Chicken salad sandwiches
    Serve with chips
  • Canned biscuits and make chicken and dumplings the easy way. Get a cooked chicken hot at Sams club, strip all the meat while it is warm. boil the bones well to make broth, and have dumplings with a LOT of chicken.
  • 1.Yellow rice kit with the leftover chicken.

    2. Box of chicken broth, dice a potato, carrot, chop onion and celery.

    Sauté, add broth, boil a few minutes, add bag of wide noodles.

    When noodles are near done, add diced chicken.

    Add water or broth as needed.

    3. Chicken salad with mayo, green onion, relish, boiled egg.
  • Cook bones w/water in instant pot to get broth then make chicken soup, chicken tortilla soup or chicken & noodles with leftover meat.

    Use left over meat for chicken salad, chick croquettes or chicken tetrazzine.

    That's 6 more ways!