12 Easy Rotisserie Chicken Meal Ideas (Enchiladas, Fried Rice, Soup & More)
Have a rotisserie chicken in your fridge? 🍗
I often LOVE using a convenient rotisserie chicken to save time and money when making recipes for dinner! It can be a lifesaver sometimes when you’re in a hurry, especially on busy weeknights. Plus, who can resist when they’re priced under $5 at places like Costco and Sam’s club for such a large sized chicken?!
Shredded chicken is a great starter for so many recipes!
I will often come across recipes and bookmark them as meal ideas to utilize a rotisserie chicken even if it’s written using chopped chicken breast meat. If you prefer shredding chicken breast and thigh meat for meal planning, you can also do that instead and still use these same ideas below!
Here are 12 delicious and easy ways to use a rotisserie chicken in your cooking…
1.) Chicken Noodle Soup
Making a fast and comforting soup is my favorite go-to idea with a rotisserie chicken. This Chicken Noodle Soup recipe also has directions on how to easily make your own homemade noodles, because noodles are always the BEST part!
2.) White Chicken Enchiladas with Sour Cream Sauce
Enchiladas come together quickly with cooked shredded chicken! Try these delicious creamy White Chicken Enchiladas with a flavorful green chile & sour cream sauce. This meal was a big hit with my family and is really easy to put together using a rotisserie chicken.
3.) Cauliflower Fried Rice (from our sister site, Hip2Keto.com)
If you’re eating low carb, try making a quick chicken fried rice skillet meal, and swapping out cauliflower for the rice! It’s a simple idea that my entire family enjoyed. Fried rice is one of the easiest takeout style meals you can make at home, and this Keto Cauliflower Fried Rice version is both delicious and filling.
4.) Avocado Chicken Salad
This Avocado Chicken Salad recipe features just three main ingredients, but can be adapted to your taste with many different add-in choices. It’s one of our favorite ways to utilize a rotisserie chicken!
5.) Lemon Chicken Orzo Soup
If you need a comforting & easy soup idea, try making Lemon Chicken Orzo Soup! The lemony broth really adds some zesty flavor and the veggies, chicken, and orzo make it a perfect meal. This is a great way to change up traditional chicken noodle soup, and the leftovers are yummy, too!
6.) Sheet Pan Chicken Pot Pie
Make this warm and comforting childhood favorite in under an hour with the help of a rotisserie chicken and sheet pan! Puff pastry is the secret to this mouth-watering Sheet Pan Chicken all will LOVE!
7.) White Bean Chicken Chili
There’s nothing better than a warm bowl of chili on a cold winter day! This easy White Bean Chicken Chili recipe, starts by using a rotisserie chicken and has quickly became a personal family favorite! The combination of clove, cumin, garlic, and oregano gives it amazing flavor! Depending on how spicy you prefer things, add a jalapeño and green chilies.
8.) Keto Buffalo Chicken Soup (from Hip2Keto)
Looking for a delicious and easy to make low carb soup?! Here’s a tested and approved meal idea we prepared during our Hip2save team retreat recently! Everyone agreed this creamy Keto Buffalo Chicken Soup is super flavorful and delicious when you use a rotisserie chicken.
9.) Green Chile Cabbage Enchiladas (from Hip2Keto)
If you’re looking to lighten up a classic enchilada dish (or maybe you are following a grain-free diet), try swapping out the tortillas for cabbage. Because of the flavors of green chilies and cilantro, you will not notice any strong cabbage flavor making these Green Chile Enchiladas a perfect low carb way to enjoy a popular Mexican dish!
10.) Walnut Chicken Salad
Try making some creamy Walnut Chicken Salad using a combination of fresh and dried herbs plus walnuts and celery for crunch. This easy recipe is written with canned chicken, however, rotisserie chicken can easily be substituted and my family enjoys either!
11.) Buffalo Chicken Dip
Need an easy appetizer perfect for any get-together? This Buffalo Chicken Dip is for sure a winner every time and it is usually gone in just a few minutes! It’s such a delicious way to get the flavor of buffalo wings but in a cheesy dip. You can use chopped up pieces of cooked chicken, or rotisserie chicken!
12.) Ramen Noodle Salad
This popular sweet and savory salad features a unique and inexpensive ingredient that makes it irresistible – Yep, Ramen Noodles! Take this Ramen Noodle Salad from a side dish to a yummy and easy meal by adding rotisserie chicken!
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Thank you so much for this post. It’s a great list of easy meals. We love ❤️the chicken buffalo dip and walnut chicken salad. I hate touching rotisserie chicken😒 so crockpot cooked chicken works for me. 😂
Aw you’re so welcome!
Jill! Same here!!! 🤢. And I do the exact same thing-love my crockpot shredded chicken!! It will work equally well with this nice collection of recipes 👍
Yes perfect! 😀
I love Meijers rotisserie chicken that’s already pulled apart for you for less than it cost whole.
We just got a Meijer, I’ll have to check that out! Thanks for the tip!
Even better! Sounds good 😀
It always makes me wonder how they can sell this type cheaper than buying chicken and cooking it. What kind of weird chickens are they using? lol
I heard on NPR that Sam’s and Costco keep their chickens at $5 to get us to come in and buy them(so much better that Walmart’s Family size almost $8) and then buy more things to go along with the dinner or maybe impulse buys
Thanks, great recipes to try! I just bought some chicken breast meat, already pulled off the bone at Costco today.
Awesome! Enjoy 😀
I LOVE this post. I’m always looking for new rotisserie chicken ideas. I buy one every time I go to Sam’s or Costco, even if it just ends up on a salad or sandwich!
Yes I do too! 👍
Just bought a rotisserie chicken at Costco this week and got two meals out of it! Chicken alfredo pasta and peanut sauce chicken and vegetables
Those sound amazing!
Lina, thank you for these recipes, they sound great!
Megan, would you please share your recipe for peanut sauce chicken and vegetables?! That sounds so yummy!!! 😋
You’re so welcome!
I make barbecue chicken sandwiches with the chicken, crescent roll up with sauce made out of cream of chicken and cheese. chicken lasagna with a white sauce and chedder cheese.
Nicole those both sound fantastic and like something my picky 8yo would actually eat – thanks for sharing!
I love these ideas as well. Walmart also has their rotisserie for $5.
After 10pm, you can snag that same bird for $2.48
I like to put my rotisserie chicken in the slow cooker with cut up onions, potatoes, carrots and celery. I add a cup of chicken broth or bouillon and some more spices and let it cook for about 5 hours on high. The chicken gets so tender. You can even get cold rotisserie chicken from Walmart at half price. You can also freeze the chicken and put in the slow cooker frozen.
i’m always trying to find new recipes for extra chicken you have on hand! Thanks for these. A few other of my go to’s that are so simple, as in it takes 5 minutes on a busy night and you have left over chicken, are chicken pot pie, cheesy chicken and rice casserole and chicken and broccoli wrapped in refrigerator croissants! And my teens love them all which makes it a win/win in my book:)
We are making Hawaiian Haystacks with ours for lunch today. I love making chicken pot pie with this, a bag of frozen vegetables a can of condensed soup/gravy and top it off with canned bread. It cooks super fast.
I love it. There are even some my picky brothers will eat. LOL
Darn it😫 these all look so good and I can’t figure out how to save them
I love making hot chicken sandwiches
I always email or text the page to myself!
Hi Anna! You can save this post by adding it to your “cookbook”. That option is listed above, just below the post title. Hope this helps!
I love making hot chicken sandwiches
Every one of these posts look good–but right now, I’m a little chickened out, lol. Saving these for later!
Thanks for the recipes! Just picked up one today and plan to use it to make creamed chicken to go on buns or over biscuits.