2 Easy and Delicious Leftover Chicken Recipes
I'm going to show some leftover chicken recipes. It’s easy to roast a chicken with veggies and then make chicken stock overnight so that you can turn it into chicken soup. This leftover recipe won't just boost your immune system, but it's an easy and very healthy meal.
I made this for my daughter, Emily, when she had a horrible cold. I thought if anyone out there is going through the flu or bronchitis or anything that's been going around recently, this can help.
I’m going to roast a chicken and put some potatoes, carrots, and onions in the broth underneath the chicken.
Before we go to bed, I’m going to take the scraps from the chicken, put it in the slow cooker, and make chicken broth for chicken soup. I’m simply stretching the ingredients from one meal into another meal.
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Recipe 1: Roast chicken
Ingredients:
- Whole chicken (I used a 4.5 lbs chicken)
- 3 tablespoons of unsalted room-temperature butter
- 2 tablespoons of dried thyme
- 2 tablespoons of dried rosemary
- 2 tablespoons of dried parsley
- 6 potatoes
- 1 bag of carrots
- 4 white medium-sized onions
- 1 lemon
- 1 cup of chicken stock
- Salt
- Black pepper
- Cooking twine (or unflavored dental floss)
Directions:
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees
Put the butter and all the herbs ingredients in a bowl and mix into a rub.
Wash and pat the chicken dry.
I took the butter and herb mixture I made and rubbed it not only on the outside of the chicken but also on the inside of the skin. You can tear the skin a little bit to achieve that.
Peel and quarter the onions. Cut the potatoes into large wedges so they don’t burn when they are under the chicken. Put the scraps into your grab bag of veggie scraps.
Quarter the lemon. Put it into the chicken’s cavity along with an onion. Tie the legs with cooking twine to hold it all together.
Put the vegetables, 1 cup of water, and 1 cup of chicken broth into a roasting pan. Add salt and pepper.
Cook it all in the oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 20 minutes for every pound of chicken you are cooking. So I rounded it off to 5 pounds and cooked it for one hour and 40 minutes and it came out amazing.
Bonus cooking time:
I took advantage of a hot oven by baking two spaghetti squashes. I cut them in half, drizzled them with olive oil, salt, and pepper, and put them in the oven to roast after the chicken was done.
Along with that I cut up sweet potatoes, seasoned with oil, salt, and pepper, and put them on a foil-covered cookie sheet to bake. I saved a lot of energy since I didn’t need to restart the oven to make more items.
Recipe 2: Chicken soup
Ingredients:
- 4 cups of chicken stock
- Shredded chicken
- 5 celery stalks
- 4 carrots
- 4 garlic cloves
- 1 red onion
- 1/4 cup of avocado oil (or olive oil)
- 2 tablespoons of Italian seasonings
Directions:
I put all the scraps from the chicken dinner from the night before into the slow cooker overnight. Here’s what it looks like in the morning.
Once the chicken broth cooled I separated the chicken from the broth.
I diced everything (and I added scraps to my veggie scrap bag which I keep in the freezer).
I put my Dutch oven on medium-high heat on the stovetop and added a ¼ cup of avocado oil to the pot.
I sauteed the onions first, then added celery, and once the onions were translucent, I added in the garlic to saute, stirring everything as it cooked for about two minutes.
Add in 4 cups of chicken stock from the slow cooker.
Then I added the shredded chicken into the pot. Bring everything to a boil, cover the pot, and let simmer for 20 minutes. You can also make this soup by adding pasta or brown rice to it.
I saved time because half of the meal was already cooked. I saved money because I took the ingredients from one meal and turned it into something else. It’s not an original concept and it did not take too much creativity. But it is delicious and healthy, and my family went crazy for both dishes.
Leftover chicken recipes
Let me know if you like these recipes for leftover chicken or if you have another great immune-boosting recipe so we can all stay healthy.
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