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Pictured Recipe:Chicken Caesar Pasta Salad
Roasting a whole chicken has always been one of my favorite meal-prep tips-cook once and you’ll have dinner tonight plus more for meals all week. I’ve even made it part of my regular Sunday routine. Trust me, it’s easy!
Don’t feel like roasting a whole bird? These easy ideas will work well with leftover grilled chicken, as well as rotisserie chicken (whether it’s store-bought or a homemadeair-fryer rotisserie chicken). Feel free to use light or dark meat interchangeably in any of these recipe ideas too.
Healthy Whole Chicken Recipes
57 Leftover Roast Chicken Recipes & Ideas
Stir it into aquick chicken chiliwith sweet potatoes(pictured above)
Top homemade cheesy black beannachos
Add it to a quesadilla with sautéed spinach, or make thesechicken quesadillaswith beans
Simmer with vegetables and broth for aquick chicken soup
Mix with Buffalo sauce, carrots, celery and blue cheese for a Buffalo chicken salad
Make achicken Cobb salad(pictured above)
Use it to makeBBQ chicken tacostopped with red cabbage slaw
Top a baked sweet potato with chicken, scallions and Cheddar cheese
Add it to a vegetable stir-fry with teriyaki sauce
Toss with barbecue sauce and make a BBQ chicken sandwich
Stuff intoenchiladaswith cheese and kale (pictured above)
Make chicken pasta salad with broccoli, tomatoes and Italian dressing, or pull together achicken Caesar pasta salad
Stuff in a burrito with rice, beans, guacamole and corn, or make aburrito bowl
Scatter over a mushroom-and-cheese pizza
Turn it into a tastychicken Parm-inspired dip
Slice into a pita with watercress and tzatziki
Make a quinoa bowl with hummus, cucumbers and tomatoes
Mix with soy sauce and chives for a dumpling filling
Tuck into a chickenpotpie
Stir into gumbo with frozen okra and corn
Add to macaroni & cheese with broccoli
Sauté with peppers and onions to makefajitas
Make a frittata with chicken and herbs
Makechicken fried ricewith vegetables(pictured above)
Use for chicken Divan
Fry up a hash with frozen potatoes, spinach and chorizo
Make classic chicken salad with grapes and tarragon
Shred intosesame noodles
BakeChicken & Mushroom Shepherd’s Pie(pictured above)
Top cooked lentils and sautéed kale and drizzle with fish sauce
Layer with artichokes and ricotta cheese into a lasagna
Fold into aChicken Club Wrapwith bacon, lettuce and mayo(pictured above)
Make a flatbread with pesto and fresh mozzarella
Mix with rice, peas and a light mushroom cream sauce
Make calzones with broccoli, cheese and marinara sauce
Toss with fish sauce, rice noodles and coleslaw mix for a Thai salad
Top a Southwest-style Caesar salad
Whip upchicken Tetrazzini
Mix with enchilada sauce and zucchini and stuff intospaghetti squash(pictured above)
Make a chowder with bacon and potatoes
Combine with breadcrumbs, scallion and egg for chicken patties
Add to roasted Brussels sprouts and cranberries
Top toast for an open-face melt with Gruyère
Add it to ahearty fall saladwith butternut squash and Brussels sprouts(pictured above)
Use as a layer in7-layer dip
Thread onto skewers and serve withpeanut sauce
Use as a topping for ramen with bok choy
Sauté with eggplant and peppers and serve over polenta
Add to a quiche with black beans, corn and salsa
Make hand pies with mashed sweet potatoes
Slide into a biscuit and top with gravy
Toss with hotgnocchi, chard and cheese
Add to lo mein with egg noodles or make a chicken udon bowl
Fold into an egg roll filling with napa cabbage and hoisin sauce
Stuff into crepes with goat cheese and roasted butternut squash
Combine with mayo and Cheddar to make chicken pimiento cheese
Still want more? Browse all of ourHealthy Leftover Chicken Recipesfor plenty of delicious ideas.
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