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10 Magic Tricks for Turning a Rotisserie Chicken into a Family Dinner

The Family Kitchen

1 Dec

You can laugh if you must, but I’ve been known to leave Costco with a cart filled with rotisserie chickens. I will buy 4-5 at a crack. To say I am obsessed with this fantastic cooking short-cut would be an understatement.

Using the chickens I buy during one shopping session, I will shred and bag the rotisserie chicken into enough 2-cup portions to stock our freezer. Then I know at any given moment, I’m already one big step towards having a family dinner on the table.

10 dinner recipes for using a rotisserie chicken

While a rotisserie chicken can make a yummy dinner just on its own with your favorite side dishes, I love using the seasoned and tender meat as a base for everything from casseroles to soups. When you can catch one on sale, it often offers you a larger portion of meat than you would have gotten for the same price raw and you save the time in having to cook it yourself.

Saving time AND money? SOLD.

Our family’s favorite rotisserie chicken recipes include everything from comfort food classics like Pot Pie to spicy “make your own takeout” dishes like Fried Rice. We turn to these ideas again and again. I hope you find one that your family loves, too!

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10 ways to use a rotisserie chicken:

  1. Short-cut Chicken Enchiladas
  2. Lighter Chicken pot pie
  3. Chicken Fried Rice
  4. Tuscan Chicken Soup
  5. Chicken Tetrazzini
  6. Delicious Chicken Chili (No beans!)
  7. Chicken Spaghetti
  8. Chicken Alfredo Rice Casserole
  9. Cheesy Bubble-up Chicken Pot Pie Bake (COMING SOON!)
  10. Chicken Ranch Roll-ups  
    BONUS: or try this awesome spin on the same flavors with the yummy Cheesy Ranch Bacon Biscuit Casserole (COMING SOON!)

 

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tiffanyMeet Tiffany Dahle

Tiffany believes strong families start with strong and happy mothers. Too often as women we put everyone’s needs before our own. At Peanut Blossom, she encourages you to develop everyday possibilities for stretching your creativity while doing what you do to keep that household running! She strives to help mothers and teach her own children that having kids does not mean the end of your own personal growth and learning.

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A key to surviving any time of year, but especially the holidays, is planning ahead! Here are a few more ideas for quick and easy dinner ideas that you’re sure to love:

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7 Make-Ahead Holiday Side Dishes That Will Save You Time

Insanely Delicious (and Quick!) Cheesy Ranch-Chicken Biscuit Casserole

Insanely Delicious (and Quick!) Cheesy Ranch-Chicken Biscuit Casserole

How to Save Time With Easy Make-Ahead Breakfast Sandwiches

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Comments

  1. Julie Kieras says

    December 6, 2016 at 5:31 pm

    GREAT idea! I thought I was nuts getting TWO chickens at a time. hahaha now I will feel better about getting more! 🙂
    I just made chicken pot pie tonight with our leftover Rotisserie. We also love “Chicken Caesar Salad” 🙂

  2. Easy Dessert says

    January 8, 2017 at 8:57 am

    Hi, I think your website might be having browser
    compatibility issues. When I look at your blog in Firefox,
    it looks fine but when opening in Internet Explorer, it has some overlapping.

    I just wanted to give you a quick heads up! Other then that, awesome blog!

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