What’s for dinner? Here are 30 rotisserie chicken ideas!

How many times have you stood in front of your open refrigerator hoping that dinner would suddenly materialize or at least an idea for a quick dinner would present itself? Well, luckily, I can help you with this for the next 30 days! Enter bulk meal cooking . . . let me explain.

I am sure that you have heard about freezer cooking and meal prep. Those meal plans leave you with somewhat mushy and frankly boring dinners all week long. However, what I am teaching you how to do, puts totally fresh and 100% different flavors of meals on your table every night in under 30 minutes of active cook time.

All you need to do is 1 1/2 hours of prep at the beginning of the week. I call this method bulk meal cooking. It focuses on precooking a large amount of protein all at once, and then prepackaging it for later in the week.

The Method

Let me introduce you to a simple method of cooking a large batch of chicken at the beginning of each week and then basically assembling your dinner just before eating. What you need to do, is simply calculate how much chicken you will need for the week. Place the chicken in a large kettle filled with salted water. Bring to a boil and drop your chicken into the water carefully. Cook until done about 15 minutes. Internal Temperature needs to reach 165 degrees F. If you are cooking from frozen, add about 50% more cooking time.

This method started about 10 years ago when I would make two beer can chickens on the grill at the same time to maximize propane/pellet usage. It’s just as easy to cook one chicken as it is to cook two. Originally, I wondered what we would do with all of that cooked chicken meat. Well, I quickly found out what a HUGE time savings having precooked chicken on hand would be.

It slowly morphed from me packing a few pieces of precooked chicken in my husbands lunch, to me guarding it for my planned dinners, because it’s a go to for my teens to make a healthy snack! Chicken is also a more healthy option for dinner than red meat. But don’t get me wrong . . . I have great bulk meal cooking ideas for all types of meat.

Slightly more expensive alternative- but equally delicious

However, if you prefer to use store bought rotisserie chicken, it is delicious as well. Remember to save time to shred your chicken. While being sold at a pricing premium, our store offers shredded Rotisserie chicken for sale in the prepared meals/ grab and go section of the market. This is a convenient option that I sometimes utilize when time is of the essence! Or my teens have eaten all of my precooked chicken.

I have included a list below of fantastic recipes, all favorites of our family that we eat most nights. Simply click on any of the blue hyperlinked recipe names to bring up the fantastic recipe! Either way, the following recipes will be a delicious addition to your cooking repertoire. Happy Cooking!

1.) Chicken Tetrazzini

2.) Aunt Bea’s Poultry Puffs

3.) Chicken Stir Fry

4.) Chicken Fried Rice

5.) Copycat Chicken Taco Bell Power Bowls

6.) Chicken Pesto Pizza

7.) Chicken Barbecue Pizza

8.) Aram Sandwich

9.) Creamy One pot chicken and ricotta spaghetti

10.) Chicken Pot Pie

11.) Chicken Quesadilla

12.) Delicious Chicken Salad, Curry Chicken Salad, Tarragon Chicken Salad, Honey Chicken Salad, BLT Chicken Salad

13.) Poppy Seed Chicken

14.) BLT Chicken Salad

15.) Chicken Spaghetti

16.) Bacon Avocado Chicken Salad

17.) Chicken Beatrice

18.) White Chicken Chili

19.) Chicken and Orzo Salad

20.) Cheesy White Chicken Lasagna

21.) Creamy Chicken Bacon Ziti

22.) Penne with Tomato and Leek Sauce

23.) Chicken Zip Zoop

24.) Chicken, Bacon and White Bean Soup (Portuguese Style

25.) King Ranch Chicken Mac & Cheese

26.) Chicken Tortilla Soup

27.) Chicken Caesar Wraps

28.) French Bread Chicken Caprese Sandwich

29.) Chicken Broccoli Divan

30.) Chicken Cobb Salad