Ten Ways to Use your Rotisserie Chicken
- Salads Add rotisserie chicken to mixed salad greens, chopped tomatoes, shredded carrots, sliced red onions. Toss with your favorite low fat or fat free dressing.
- Sandwiches and Wraps Make a chicken-salad filling with crunchy celery and apple. Use plain low fat yogurt with a hint of curry powder or cumin for the dressing. Stuff into a whole wheat pita or spoon into the center of a whole wheat tortilla wrap and roll up.
- Soups Add 2 cups of chopped rotisserie chicken, a selection of chopped vegetables and 1 cup of uncooked rice or noodles to 3 cans fat-free chicken broth.
- Pizza toppings Top a Boboli crust with 1/2 cup of tomato or barbecue sauce, 1 cup of chopped rotisserie chicken and 1 cup reduced fat cheese. Bake for 10 minutes at 450 degrees.
- Quesadillas Combine shredded rotisserie chicken with a little cumin. Spoon on one half of a low fat flour tortilla; sprinkle with reduced fat cheese; fold tortilla in half and cook in a nonstick skillet (coated with cooking spray) for 5 minutes, turning once.
- Burritos, Enchiladas, Fajitas, and Tacos Add shredded rotisserie chicken to salsa, beans, low fat sour cream and reduced fat cheese; or combine with sautéed onions and sweet peppers; with shredded lettuce and chopped tomatoes; or mix with mild green chiles, seasonings, scallions and a can of enchilada sauce. Use low fat flour or corn wraps with these fillings.
- Pasta dishes Add to your favorite pasta dish. Use shredded rotisserie chicken instead of ground beef or turkey in your favorite lasagna recipe. Be sure to use reduced fat cheeses.
- Pot pies Add chopped rotisserie chicken, sliced mushrooms and frozen mixed vegetables to low fat, reduced sodium condensed chicken or mushroom soup. Top with a reduced-fat biscuit topping or phyllo pastry sheets.
- Casseroles Combine 2 cups chopped rotisserie chicken with 2 cups cooked rice, a can fat-free broth or chopped tomatoes, and a selection of chopped vegetables in a 2-quart casserole. Cover and bake at 325 degrees for 30-40 minutes, until vegetables are tender.
- Skillet Meals Add 1 1/2 cups of chopped rotisserie chicken to sautéed onion, mushrooms, broccoli and rice cooked in fat-free broth. Sprinkle some parmesan before serving.
- Chicken Pot Pie
- Chicken Caesar Salad
- Chicken and Black Bean Salad
- Chicken, Asparagus and Quinoa Salad
- Chicken Enchiladas
- Mexican Chicken Bake
- Curried Chicken Salad
- Southwestern Chicken Salad
- Asian Chicken Noodle Salad
- Chicken Tetrazzini
- Mediterranean Pizza
- Mexican Pizza
- Chicken with Penne and Asparagus
- Chicken and Asparagus Stir-Fry
These are just a few ideas for using your store-bought rotisserie chicken. Here are some recipes that would work well. In the ones that call for uncooked chicken in the ingredients, simply substitute the cooked rotisserie chicken. Obviously you won’t have to cook “until the chicken pieces turn pink,” so focus on the cooking time for the vegetables and other ingredients, and allow just enough time for the chicken to be heated through.
See how versatile rotisserie chicken can be? I hope the words “chicken again” take on a new meaning in your house.
