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These easy rotisserie chicken recipes are perfect for turning ready-cooked chicken into a quick and delicious meal.
From creamy Chicken a la King and comforting soups to chicken fried rice, burritos, gyros and cheesy pasties, these are some of my favourite ways to use up cooked chicken.
They’re also great for using up leftover roast chicken, so whether you’ve picked up a rotisserie chicken from the supermarket or have leftovers from Sunday dinner, there are plenty of ideas here for putting it to good use.
Nicky’s Notes
I love having a few recipes up my sleeve that start with cooked chicken. It takes out a whole stage of making dinner and means you can get something really tasty on the table that little bit quicker.
You can use a shop-bought rotisserie chicken (or cooked chicken pieces from the shop), or use leftover roast chicken for any of these recipes.
A few tips for using cooked chicken:
- Use a mixture of breast and thigh meat if you can. The darker meat is particularly juicy and the breast meat is usually a little more firm, so it’s nice to have a mix of the two.
- Add cooked chicken later in the recipe where appropriate. As it’s already cooked, it generally only needs enough time to heat through. This helps to stop it drying out.
- Don’t forget the carcass! If you’ve got the whole chicken, save the bones for making chicken stock.
- Leftover roast chicken works too. You don’t need to buy a rotisserie chicken specifically for these recipes – they’re perfect for using up leftovers from a roast chicken dinner.
I often deliberately cook a larger chicken than we need for a roast dinner, just so I’ve got enough leftover chicken for another meal. It makes dinner the following day so much easier!
Chicken a la King Recipe
Tuscan Style Chicken Soup
Chicken Fried Rice Recipe
Quick Chicken Ramen Recipe
Quick Chicken Laksa Recipe
Coronation Chicken Recipe
Salsa Chicken
White Chilli Chicken Recipe
Rotisserie Chicken Burritos
Chicken and Ham Pie Recipe
Cheesy Chicken and Bacon Pasty Recipe
Creamy Chicken Noodle Soup (US style)
Chicken and Rice Soup
Roast Chicken & Creamy Garlic Mushroom Burger
Singapore Noodles Recipe
Why These Leftover Chicken Recipes Work
- They’re quick and convenient – starting with cooked chicken cuts out a whole stage of prep and cooking.
- Perfect for leftovers – a great way to turn leftover roast chicken into a completely different meal the next day.
- Rotisserie chicken works brilliantly – it’s ideal when you want the convenience of ready-cooked chicken but you don’t have any cooked chicken leftovers on hand.
- Plenty of variety – from fried rice and noodles to soups, pies and wraps, so it never feels like you’re eating the same meal twice.
- Less food waste – even a relatively small amount of leftover chicken can be stretched into another family meal.
More Recipe Roundups
If you love this leftover chicken roundup then here are some of our other roundups to get you inspired.
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“Brilliant – extremely tasty for such a quick meal! We loved it…..”
– Denise (about the Chicken a la King)