5 Easy Meal Ideas with Rotisserie Chicken
by Debbie Madson
Description: Family dinner ideas using rotisserie chicken as the main ingredient.
Rotisserie chicken can be a great easy meal idea when planning what is
for dinner as well as an item that can be picked up at your local
grocery store quickly. Besides having a roast chicken with a side dish here
are a few ideas of what you can do with shredded chicken.
1. Add to a salad. If you are short on time buy bagged lettuce and
vegetables already cut up. For a cheaper alternative buy lettuce,
vegetables of choice, sliced ham, sliced cheese and your rotisserie chicken.
Assemble your salad at home and serve with garlic bread if desired.
Another option is a Caesar salad topped with shredded chicken.
2. Add shredded chicken to tortillas. Top with shredded cheese and
salsa or sour cream. Roll up and either broil in the oven for a crunchy
tortilla or place in the microwave until the cheese is melted.
3. Create a quick quiche chicken pie. You can always make a chicken pot
pie with vegetables with your chicken. But if you want something
different add shredded chicken to 1 1/2 cups milk, 3 eggs, and 1 ½ cups of
shredded cheese. Season with salt and pepper. Blend together and pour
into a pie crust. Bake for 40 minutes at 375 degrees or until lightly
browned and knife inserted in middle comes out clean. To add a vegetable
to the meal add 1/2 package frozen chopped broccoli thawed and drained
to your egg mixture then pour into pie crust.
4. Put together a soup. Using canned or homemade chicken broth add
frozen vegetables, shredded chicken and pasta noodles or ravioli noodles
for a standard chicken soup. Other soup ideas are adding chicken to a
white bean chili, spice chicken soup up with tomatoes and corn, or add
rice or dumplings instead of noodles.
5. Chicken salad. For a quick meal idea stir shredded chicken with
mayonnaise and pickle relish and serve on a croissant or hard roll. Or go
for a different chicken salad mixed with almonds,cooked noodles and
chopped eggs with or without mayonnaise. There are many variations of
chicken salads you can find.
No doubt Rotisserie chicken can help make dinner into an easy meal with
just a little imagination. Chicken can be used in so many variations of
meals it is no wonder it is so popular throughout the world.
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