When you have some cooked chicken in your refrigerator, dinner is always only a few minutes away.
With these simple recipes, you can cook extra chicken one night and use the leftovers throughout the week.
- Choose a chicken recipe below and make enough for dinner the night you cook it plus plenty of leftovers.
- Using the leftover chicken to prepare one of the easy recipes below that start with cooked chicken.
The continuous kitchen: Use one meal as a jumping off point for the next. A little extra effort now = a lot of delicious options later. A little and a lot.
Here are some pairing ideas:
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Step 1. Cooked Chicken Recipes
- How to Roast a Chicken: Two Simple Foolproof Methods
- Chicken Adobo with Coconut Milk {Filipino Style}
- Mexican Adobo Chicken
- Grilled Lemon Rosemary Chicken in a Sugar and Salt Brine
- Tahini Marinated Grilled Chicken
- Slow Cooker Indian Butter Chicken {Dairy Free Option}
- Baked Paprika Chicken with Yogurt Sauce
- Sheet Pan Cajun Chicken & Potatoes with Vegetables
- Pan Fried Chicken Thighs with Honey Chili Glaze
Step 2. Recipes Using Cooked Chicken
Use leftover cooked chicken later in the week to make...
Soups with Chicken
This Chicken Tortilla Soup is one of those fast cooking, super satisfying recipes that has a guaranteed spot on permanent meal time rotation at our house. Start to finish, this will be on the table in about 30 minutes.
This super easy method to making chicken soup can be used to make any number of servings using almost anything in your refrigerator and pantry and is as warm and comforting as a hug from your favorite person.
Sandwiches & Wraps with Chicken
These simple lettuce wraps use any kind of cooked chicken to create a quick, intensely satisfying meal that will be on the table in about 15 minutes.
Baked Dishes with Chicken
Chicken enchiladas are the kind of simple, basic, casual comfort food that requires so little time and energy, it's within reach whenever the craving strikes. Which, if you're anything like me, is about every other day.
