I like to roast a chicken on the weekend. It makes for an easy, delicious, and somewhat fancy family dinner. It also provides me with bones to make chicken broth and leftover meat to use in recipes through out the week. I rarely just reheat leftovers, instead I use them as a base to speed up dinner prep. Then I add layers of flavor to create a whole new meal.
I dice leftover chicken and freeze it in 2 cup Pyrex containers
. Why 2 cups of chicken? I don’t know, but for some reason that amount works well in a lot of my recipes. Then I pull out the containers of chicken in the morning put them in the refrigerator and they are thawed and ready to use in recipes by dinner time.
Prepping the leftover chicken ahead of time allows me to make healthy leftover chicken recipes in a fraction of the normal time on busy school nights.
15 Healthy Leftover Chicken Recipes
You won’t recognize Sunday’s chicken dinner when you use leftover chicken in one of the below recipes. These recipes also work well with leftover grilled chicken or broiled chicken. In fact sometimes we batch grill chicken or batch broil chicken with the intention of using the leftovers in recipes through out the week.
Chicken Noodle Casserole
Curried Chicken Pasta Salad
Chicken and Mango Salad with Creamy Cilantro Dressing
Chicken and Broccoli Casserole
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How do you repurpose leftover chicken?
What is your favorite recipe for using up leftover chicken? Feel free to leave a link or recipe in the comments.
More Recipes Using Leftovers:
- Recipes to Use Up Leftover Chicken
- Recipes to Use Up Leftover Ham
- Recipes to Use Up Leftover Steak
- Recipes to Use Up Leftover Turkey
- Recipes to Use Up Leftover Chili
- Recipes to Use Up Leftover Spaghetti Sauce
- Recipes to Use Up Leftover Barbecue Chicken
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JANA KIMBERLING says
Chicken salad! Shred the chicken and add just a little mayonnaise….just enough to hold the chicken together. Then add whatever you like in your chicken salad (dried cranberries and slivered almonds, diced pickled jalapeños, bacon & cheddar, anything else that sounds good to you.
Alea Milham says
Great tip! I have never met a chicken salad that I didn’t love!
mjskit says
Great leftover chicken ideas! I love it when the leftover dish is better than the original! Looks like you’ve got some winners here!
Rebecca @ Peanut Butter, Passports, and Epinephrine says
Mmmm . . . going to have to try that Chicken and Mango salad. I make a similar salad with rice that my husband loves. The cilantro dressing sounds so good!
Lyndsay Wells says
YUMMERS! I’m putting that pizza on my dinner rotation!