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| I roast a chicken about once a week, and always have left over meat picked from the carcass. What are your inspired uses for leftover cooked chicken meat? I have several, but we are sick of my old stand-byes.
Thanks in advance! Alexa |
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- Posted by booberry85 (becky@leadtesting.net) on Sun, Mar 4, 12 at 20:52
| A couple of things I like are Greek salad with chicken; chicken pesto with broccoli over pasta;or chicken alfredo with peas and mushrooms over pasta. I don't really have recipes for any of them. I just wing it. Some old stand-bys are chicken sandwiches and chicken noodle soup. |
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| Chicken enchiladas Tortilla chicken soup Chicken Avgolemono (stock made from the carcass in the pressure cooker) |
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| Buffalo chicken dip! |
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| I just made Ann T's enchiladas over the weekend.... the rest of the ideas are great! Keep them coming! Alexa |
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| Chicken, in a white sauce made with half milk and half broth from the chicken carcass, with sliced sauteed mushrooms, some onion and red peppers sauteed with the mushrooms...with a bit of curry....over rice....AKA "chicken glop"!! comfort food! |
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- Posted by carol_in_california (My Page) on Sun, Mar 4, 12 at 21:34
| Chicken tacos or chicken noodle soup. Or chicken enchiladas made with red sauce and flour tortillas. |
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| I love old-school baked chicken cannelloni topped with a bechamel sauce and cheese. |
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| Chicken Enchiladas Chicken and White Bean Chili (Elery's recipe...see Annie!!) Hot Chicken Sandwiches Chicken Salad Chicken Pate with crackers |
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| Taco salad - bake flour tortillas over a wad of foil for bowls Chicken salad Chicken and noodles, chowder or chicken noodle soup - broth made from carcass In Alfredo sauce w/vegies over pasta Pot pie |
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| I like to roast a whole chicken and my dog loves the leftovers. She is so spoiled. |
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| chinese chicken salad! om nom nom! |
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- Posted by coconut-nj (My Page) on Mon, Mar 5, 12 at 2:31
| We often make chicken taco's with the leftovers. I use a white worchestershire on the meat to season it before putting it in the taco shells with usual suspects. I do also love a good heavily garlic laden chicken salad, on grain bread or stuffed into a tomato. Sometimes I'll make a quick broth with the bones and use that for a veloute', put the chicken in and serve in crepes. Even though there is nothing ispired about it, we mostly use the leftover chicken for a supper of salad. I love having salad for dinner and with the chicken in it I can get away with that with my carnivore. Cubes of baby swiss, make some chunky croutons, avocado. Yum. |
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- Posted by deborah_ps (My Page) on Mon, Mar 5, 12 at 2:34
| When I make crepes I'll double the recipe and freeze enough for a couple of meals. One of our favorites is a chicken and mushroom crepe using a cheesy cream sauce. Sometimes I'll add spinach or other veggies I have in the crisper. |
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- Posted by teresa_nc7 (My Page) on Mon, Mar 5, 12 at 8:22
| Chicken Stuffing Casserole is one of my favorites when I have leftover cooked chicken: ~ mix us some stuffing, it can be Pepperidge Farm, Stove Top or your own homemade - moisten it with chicken broth, you can add sauteed onion, celery, mushrooms, etc. to the stuffing if desired ~ make a cream or supreme sauce using chicken broth or use chicken gravy - add in the leftover chicken which has been cubed or chopped ~ layer in a greased casserole stuffing, chicken mixture (with some grated Swiss cheese on top if desired) and more stuffing ~ bake at 350 for at least 30 minutes until casserole is heated through and top layer of stuffing is a little crunchy I serve this with cranberry sauce on the side and a green vegetable like green beans or broccoli. There are lots of different versions of this on the internet including one that begins with uncooked chicken, but I prefer the use of cooked chicken. One version I made years ago had creamed cheese in the chicken mixture - now that was good! Teresa |
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- Posted by nancylouise (My Page) on Mon, Mar 5, 12 at 8:27
| I like Curried chicken salad, chicken enchiladas, hot, opened face chicken sandwiches. We have a kitchen sink pasta night where we put the leftover veggies and meats in the fridge all together with a tomato sauce. I think chicken is one of the most versatile meats around. You can do so much with it. NancyLouise |
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- Posted by islay_corbel (My Page) on Mon, Mar 5, 12 at 10:34
| Make a choux pastry ring, bake it in the oven, cut off the top and fill with Lindac's "gloup", put back on the lid, sprinkle with cheese and bake for mins or so. |
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| Timely thread. I found a bargain on roasters and cooked two yesterday. The meat has been removed and today I will make stock. I was in need of ideas for the meat other than soup! Great ideas here. Eileen |
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| Wonderful ideas all! Thank you everyone :-) And Eileen - there was a sale on roasters here too - $0.99 per lb, I bought 3! 2 are inthe freezer for future meals, and 1 I made last night, leftover chicken meat tonight. BTW - I used LindaC's idea and made a mild curry veloute, served over tri-color couscous with steamed green beans on the side. DELISH! Lots of great leftover chicken meals in our future Alexa |
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| My favourites are Chicken ala King ...my very first all time favourite |
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| I have always used the carcass to make soup or stock, and leftover meat went into chicken salad or chicken pot pie. Now, like Nancy, I have another mouth to feed so all leftover chicken goes onto Cooper's supper dish, along with vegetables. Dogs gotta eat their vegetables, you know. It must be a trend, whole roasting chickens were on sale here for 99 cents a pound too, and pork roast was $1.29 a pound. Annie |
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| The birds I found were packed two to a bag and were .89/pound. Single packs were 1.29/pound. I have ziplocks of cooked chicken meat and containers of chicken in the freezer. And now I have recipe ideas. :) Crepes are calling my name. And curried chicken salad. Eileen |
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| Teresa, we like chicken stuffing casserole also. Makes its way onto our menu several times every fall/winter. I use the make ahead chicken gravy that's most always in our freezer for a fast mid-week meal. I add a handful of fresh whole cranberries into the casserole. /tricia |
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- Posted by katefisher (My Page) on Tue, Mar 6, 12 at 16:55
| Chicken Pot Pie or chicken bbq pizza. Kate |
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| Make soup out of the carcass, add the meat in to heat through before serving. I'm big into bone and meat broths lately (Weston Price Foundation newbie here!), so I don't waste the carcass - it always gets boiled into a nutritious broth, with greens, aromatics and meat thrown in. |
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- Posted by teresa_nc7 (My Page) on Tue, Mar 6, 12 at 20:01
| I feel the need for.....dumplings! Chicken and dumplings, quick before we get the early spring temps again! Yes! Chicken and dumplings this week/weekend! Teresa |
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| this is one of my favs that I use with leftover or grilled chicken from the store - more of a warm weather meal. From The Splendid Table Almond Chutney Chicken in Lettuce Roll-Ups Chicken Salad: One 3-pound roasted chicken(take-out works here) Lettuce Cups and Herbs: 1 large head Bibb lettuce, leaves separated, washed and dried Method: Pull the meat from the chicken carcass, discarding the skin and bones. Cut it into bite-sized pieces. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Almond Chutney Chicken in Lettuce Roll-Ups
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