This brown succulent bird, living in a plastic domed palace, is just waiting for me to buy him pre-cooked and ready for eating. With a Costco right across the street from my house, how can I beat buying their rotisserie chicken? It is just too easy. At $5 a chicken, one feeds my family for at least two nights.
The first night we eat it as is. I pull off some legs and slice up some of the breast. It is perfect to eat exactly how it is prepared and doesn’t need any sauce. But you could add some BBQ sauce or even teriyaki sauce. I serve it with rice or a green salad. Then I slice up the rest of the chicken off the bone. I like to do this at the same time as I prepare the first nights dinner to get all the cutting over with at once.
The second night I have a few options to make with the prepared chicken.
Option 1 – BBQ Chicken Quesadillas. I fill tortillas with the chicken, add BBQ sauce and some cheese. Melt in the oven on a pan for 5-6 minutes per side.
Option 2 – Chicken Noodle Soup. I love to use this chicken for soup. It is already cooked and all you have to do is add a few extra things for the soup. Here is a great recipe for Chicken Noodle Soup.
Option 3 – Chicken Pot Pie. When the chicken is already cooked like this, it makes it so much easier to make a dish that takes a little longer to prepare. Here is the post I did previously about Chicken Pot Pie.
Option 4 – You can simply freeze the chicken and use it for later. Place the chicken in a freezer bag and place in freezer. It is there whenever you are ready to make one of the above options.
Hopefully you live close to a Costco. If not, I know most supermarkets carry Rotisserie Chickens too.
If you serve someone a single wing, is that considered a serving? How else could you serve 4 people two meals from the same chicken (allowing only 1 piece per person)? The second meal is a nice thought, but unless you buy a second chicken, or use the chicken to only flavor other ingredients, one chicken will never do… not when feeding my man and 2 growing children.
Julie – I love the idea of boiling the bones with rosemary. I love chicken and rosemary together too. Thanks for the idea.
Teah – I will have to check out RR’s salad. I don’t totally love her either, but she does have some great recipes.
Kalli – I am soooo glad you made the chicken pot pie. I hope it turned out delish. It is one of my favorites!!
Sue – I know I rock!!
Neffgang – You are totally disgusting. I am sure Steph wants to vomit when you do this. I already know that she picks at her chicken with a microscope looking for fatty pieces.
Lindsay – I am always up for a bargain. They have lots of good meals ready to go there at Costco. I have bought their Kirkland ready made pasta and salmon. Quick meals.
JustRandi – I am a huge fan of the meal that keeps on giving. I have a hard time buying up tons of food and not making it last for a few meals.
Great comments everyone. Thanks for the Rotisserie Love!
I love recipes like this. Things that kind of build on each other!!!
Thanks for the great ideas!
I love Costco rotisserie, too – YUM!!! (and such a bargain)
This is totally disgusting to my family, but I can’t wait to eat the skin that everyone else tosses off to the side of their plates.
What a double standard! The thought of sucking the meat off a chicken foot – like they do at dim sum joints – makes me want to barf.
Eating chicken skin from a Costco roasted bird? That completely another matter.
What a great idea. Now I know what to have for dinner tomorrow night, and the next night, and the next… You rock.
Hey, so I made your pot pie tonight. It was deeeelish!
thanks!
Marie –
Ok, I love rotisserie chicken…not really plain, but IN THIS SALAD: http://www.rachaelraymag.com/recipes/30-minute-meals/millionaire-rotisserie-chicken-salad/article.html
I know – crazy long link. Don’t usually like Rachel Ray, either (shoot me!), but this salad is absolutely divine.
I love to use the leftovers for chicken noodle soup too. I boil the bones, skin, etc with a sprig of rosemary to make my own stock. The spices from the skin give a really great and unique flavor. I love the taste of rosemary with chicken too.