Start With Rotisserie Chicken
The Start With … series continues with rotisserie chicken as the focus. While you can certainly buy this wonderful food to serve as a chicken dinner, I buy it as an ingredient to use in recipes. Not only does this stretch the chicken to serve more people, but the recipes are delicious. Start with rotisserie chicken to make fabulous meals.
And there’s another reason I love rotisserie chicken: Food safety. I just don’t like having raw chicken in my home, since it’s basically a given that it will be contaminated with pathogens like Salmonella. The chicken is also perfectly cooked. No matter how good you are in the kitchen, it is very difficult to cook chicken so it is tender, moist, and cooked to the correct final internal temperature.
I find it easiest to break down a chicken when it’s still warm, but not blazingly hot. The skin will come off easily, and the meat releases from the bone. And when I make chicken salads with rotisserie chicken, the meat stays exceptionally tender when it’s cubed and added to the dressing while it’s hot.
Enjoy these delicious and easy recipes that start with rotisserie chicken.
Start with rotisserie chicken
Puff pastry is the magic ingredient in this hot sandwich recipe. Tender rotisserie chicken is mixed with cream cheese, pesto, and sour cream, then wrapped in the pastry and baked until crisp.
Chicken Blue Cheese Bacon Bake
This wonderful casserole is filled with veggies and cheese in a super flavorful sauce made from ranch and blue cheese salad dressing. Bacon adds fabulous texture and flavor.
Three kinds of mustard, plus a creamy mustard salad dressing, make this hot casserole so flavorful. And bacon and tons of cheese make it delicious.
Waldorf Salad is a classic recipe made from apples, celery, and walnuts in a blue cheese dressing. Add chicken and two slices of raisin bread to make this wonderful and easy sandwich.
Cranberry Walnut Chicken Salad Sandwiches
Sweet and tart dried cranberries, crunchy walnuts, and flaky croissants, along with tender chicken, make this one of the best sandwiches ever.
A club sandwich on a pizza! This recipe is fun and easy to make. Just put chicken, bacon, fresh tomatoes, cheese, and a mustard-mayo sauce on a premade pizza crust and bake until hot and melty. Yum.
Pesto is a wonderful ingredient in many recipes, but it really shines in pasta salads. Lots of fresh veggies add to the color, flavor, and texture of this gorgeous salad recipe.
Four kinds of cheese are combined with chicken and stuffed into tender manicotti shells for this excellent casserole. Pasta sauce and Parmesan cheese top the shells.
Whole wheat sandwich buns, raspberry jam, sliced chicken, and some Havarti cheese are all you need to make these delicious hot sammies.
Curried Chicken and Pineapple Salad
This is one of my favorite pasta salad recipes of all time. Curry powder, mango chutney, and mayo make the luscious dressing for chicken, pineapple, celery, and sweet grapes.
This beautiful salad combines pecans, mandarin oranges, orange juice, and chicken in a creamy dressing with gemelli pasta.
Baked Chicken and Rice Casserole
Frozen brown rice is the secret ingredient in this hearty casserole. Along with chicken, broccoli, Alfredo sauce and cheese, it makes a great dinner for a cold night.
