Yes, The Rotisserie Chicken. No it's not some website or new techno gadget, but the lowly Rotisserie Chicken has been known to make my life so much easier, just like my iphone, so I figured I'd brag a little about all the things you can do with a Rotisserie Chicken.
No, I don't mean a doorstop or bait for the annoying neighbors dog, I'm talking all the wonderful meals you can prepare with a Rotisserie Chicken at a moments notice, which is what I'm all about!! Quick and easy. Rachael Ray has nothing on a Rotisserie Chicken!
Most people I know eat a Rotisserie Chicken in it's true form, as a leg or breast with sides for dinner. That's great, and that's one option, but one I don't actually, let me rephrase, my husband, doesn't actually like it like that unless forced upon him. Why, who knows, it's yummy, but I have to disguise Rotisserie Chicken in various other meals that he eats happily with no complaints....most of the time.
In other words, I have learned to camouflage this lovely chicken into a ton of easy to cook meals and I thought I'd share some of my favorites.
What got me thinking about doing a post about Chicken was this post from another blog/site that I follow: http://www.lilsugar.com/Meals-Make-Rotisserie-Chicken-11010211 They've got some good ideas on there as well.
So, I realized that I'm not the only one doing a Houdini on this lovely and cheap grocery store staple.
I normally buy a Rotisserie Chicken a couple times a month, typically the Savory Herb variety, and as soon as I get home (since the hubby doesn't like to eat it as is) I pull off every shred of meat I can find on the bird, minus the skin, and put into a container that then goes into the fridge to wait to be turned into various dinners that my husband will eat. And as a note, the chicken is much easier to shred when it's still warm. Cold chicken is tough, literally.
Because of this process, the shredded chicken actually gave us several meals during the really bad ice storm of 2008 when we had no electricity for 5 days. Protein at your service! We made a couple of my below meals on our gas camp stove that were extra tasty when you are so limited as to what you can fix or eat.
Here's a list of some of my favorite meals, or ways to eat the shredded chicken. I can normally get a good 3 meals out of a $5 Rotisserie chicken.
- Chicken Quesadillas
- Chicken Nachos
- Chicken Enchiladas (yes we like Mexican)
- Chicken/Tomato/Basil/Fresh Mozzarella Tortilla Pizzas with Pesto or on top of any type pizza
- Chicken Pot Pie
- Chicken Panini's
- Chicken Salad
- I put the shredded chicken on a tossed salad
- Pasta salad with Chicken or any pasta dish, just add chicken
- Chicken Jambalaya or Gumbo (I'm talking easy Zataran's out of the box!)
- My Noodle Chicken Soup (recipe below)
- Chicken Enchilada Soup (recipe below)
- White Chili
- And I'm sure you could think of more!
As you can see, there's a ton of quick and easy meals that you can whip up with that lowly Rotisserie Chicken, most of which I like better than eating it plain anyway.
I'd love to hear your ideas or recipes that you use Rotisserie Chicken in, and here's two recipes that are my favorites. Noodle Chicken Soup I invented, I love Chicken Noodle Soup, but I don't like real soupy soups, if that makes sense, I want noodles! So I came up with this recipe that we love. The Chicken Enchilada Soup recipe comes from our cousin Amy. Unfortunately it isn't one Ben favors but I love it and it freezes well.
Noodle Chicken Soup ~ Rhonda Werner
1/2 of a shredded Rotisserie Chicken
1 small onion diced
1 cup of celery diced
1 can of sliced carrots, chopped smaller
2 cans of condensed cream of chicken WITH HERBS Soup
1 box of Chicken stock
2 Soup Cans of Water
1/2 a bag of Egg Noodles
Saute onions and celery in 2 Tbs Olive Oil until tender. Add Soups, Water, Broth and carrots and bring to a boil.
Then add your chicken and 1/2 a bag of egg noodles and salt and pepper to taste.
Cook for the recommended time on the bag of egg noodles.
You can eat at that time, or if you set it off the burner for 20 minutes or so it thickens even more, which is the way I prefer it.
Enchilada Chicken Soup ~ Amy Adamson
1 can condensed fiesta nacho cheese soup, undiluted
1 can condensed cream of chicken soup, undiluted
2 2/3 cups of milk
The recipe calls for 1 10 oz can of chicken, but canned chicken grosses me out, so here's where in add as much shredded rotisserie chicken as you want in the soup, two good handfuls normally does it for me.
1 can enchilada sauce
1 4 oz can chopped green chilies.
Sour Cream & Frito Corn Chips
Dump everything but sour cream and fritos in large saucepan and heat until heated through. (sometimes I do this in the crock-pot since it's a dump and go soup and just let it sit on low for 3 or 4 hours)
Garnish with Sour Cream and Frito Corn Chips (and for me, these 2 items make the whole soup!)
I'd love to hear your Rotisserie Chicken Recipes if you have them!
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