These leftover rotisserie chicken recipes make easy and delicious meals your family will love! And besides recipes where you can use leftover rotisserie chicken, we also include a yummy and super simple roast sticky chicken you can cook on a rotisserie or in the oven!
Leftover Rotisserie Chicken Recipes – How I Get 4-5 Meals Out Of A Rotisserie Chicken
You can easily make 4 meals out of one rotisserie chicken from the store! I can get a rotisserie chicken for $5 and get 4-5 meals out of it for my family.
The first chicken recipe I am sharing is my own homemade rotisserie chicken recipe. This has been a staple in our dinners for more than 20 years and it is the BEST roasted chicken you will ever eat!
The leftover rotisserie chicken recipes that follow after it are designed to help you use up your rotisserie chicken so you can simply pick and choose which will be the easiest and tastiest for your family.
If it will just be 4 of us eating, I buy a smaller chicken. (We have 2 teens that are working and are not home a lot.) If all 6 of us are eating, I will get the biggest rotisserie chicken they have at the store which is even a better deal per person.
As a general guideline, we use the one rotisserie chicken in this way:
Dinner 1 – Eat the roasted rotisserie chicken. Mom and Dad split a chicken breast and I peel the meat off of 2 drumsticks to give to each of the boys. If the older kids are eating with us they get a thigh each. Then I fill out the rest of the meal with sides like rice, potatoes and vegetables.
Dinner 2 – Serve a dinner such as chicken tacos or a casserole using the leftover rotisserie chicken meat.
Dinner 3 – Boil the chicken bones overnight in the crockpot with an onion and carrot to make chicken broth for 2 chicken soups. (I pick the meat off before serving in the previous meals to reduce the possibility of spreading germs when reusing the bones.) Pick the remaining chicken meat off the bones and add to the broth. Divide the broth and use for chicken and noodles.
Dinner 4 – Use leftover broth and meat to make Chicken Barley Soup.
If I have leftovers, I’ll use them for lunch or another dinner.
That’s how we get 4-5 meals out of 1 rotisserie chicken. We usually have leftovers from one or more of the nights so I will serve those with sides like dinner rolls and sliced veggies.
This easy roast sticky chicken recipe is a great way to roast a large chicken! It is very easy to make and makes a great deli style chicken like your favorite rotisserie chicken. The meat comes out very moist and flavorful. This is the only way I will roast chicken now! It also makes wonderful leftovers!
Some of these leftover rotisserie chicken recipes are from our Dining On A Dime Cookbook, Volume 1:
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Leftover Rotisserie Chicken Recipes:
This easy chicken barley soup recipe is a classic comfort food recipe that makes a tasty and hearty soup that your family will love! It’s a great way to use leftover chicken and is perfect for winter days.
This easy chicken and dumplings recipe is an easy way to make chicken and dumplings like mom and grandma used to make! It’s a perfect comfort food!
This easy chicken pot pie recipe is delicious and easy to make, and is a great way to use leftover rotisserie chicken. You can use turkey instead of chicken and save even more money on this classic favorite!
This easy chicken spinach pasta recipe is a super yummy and easy to make dinner recipe! It’ll give you a restaurant taste without the restaurant cost and you’ll save a bunch of money! You can grill your own chicken, but it’s also a super tasty leftover rotisserie chicken recipe as the rotisserie chicken gives it a nice flavor! You can find this recipe in our Dining On a Dime Cookbook, Volume 1.
This summer chicken fruit salad recipe makes a light, cool and refreshing salad you’re sure to enjoy. It is colorful and appealing and a perfect light meal for warm days! It’s especially great as a leftover rotisserie chicken recipe or grilled chicken recipe because the rotisserie or grill makes a nice flavor which complements this tasty salad!
Here’s another easy leftover rotisserie chicken recipe that is super delicious! This white chili recipe makes the BEST chili EVER!! I won first place a chili cookoff at church with this recipe! It was totally gone after everyone got to sample 18 different kinds of chili and, days later at church, everyone was still raving about this white chili. This is that good!!! You’ve got to try it!
Chicken Confetti Pizza
Wow! so many brilliant ways to use one chicken! I just ordered a cookbook and am excited to use it! Thank you for being a business worth supporting, and a family worth watching! You are all such wonderful people and a blessing from the Lord.
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Thank you Tawra and Jill I have had a few busy days. First I cooked the whole chicken , then the next day I took the meat off the bones and started the double amount of broth. A friend dug up her potatoes and scared a couple in the process, so she gave a few to me. I made Scalloped potatoes with some and had a couple of pieces of chicken with it. After the chicken broth was made I divided it in half and froze half. The other half I made your Barley Chicken . Today I had some more Chicken soup but this time I tried making Mike*s Baking Powder biscuits. They are very good, went well with the soup. The trouble with being single you cook one thing and it multiplies into having 6 meals of soup , then how many meals come out of the Taco or Casserole. Thought of Chicken Salad (small amount) then freeze the chicken till i have eaten up the Chicken Barley soup. Love the recipes , food , just have to figure out how to use it up wisely. I appreciate all you do and am glad you went into doing cookbooks Thanks !!
I use a Weight Watch trick, I put 3-4 foil balls in the crockpot (to hold the chicken up from the fat) then the whole chicken and sprinkle Lawry’s season salt on it (or what ever season salt you like). Cook it on High 4 hr.’s
Weight Watch Rotisserie Chicken!
Yummy!
Or buy Costco rotisserie Chicken that is real good also and cheap