45 Leftover Chicken Recipes for Easy Weeknight Dinners

For the best-ever sliders, mix shredded chicken (like leftover rotisserie chicken!) with mayo, sour cream, and scallions. Melty cheese and buttery rolls take things to the next level.

Cheesy chicken taquitos are the dreamiest and easiest weeknight meal. Serve them with pico de gallo and classic guacamole.

Want restaurant-style chicken nachos at home? This is your go-to recipe! Leftover rotisserie chicken is the best way to jump-start nachos at home.

The Buffalo chicken dip that's made for game day snacking.

Served warm with plenty of shredded lettuce, tomatoes, crema, and avocado, these chicken flautas are a quick and easy weeknight dinner idea. You can make these flautas with leftover roast chicken or rotisserie chicken.

This one-pan party dip is the ultimate game day snack.

Chopped cooked chicken in a creamy, cheesy buffalo sauce, wrapped in crescent roll dough for the ultimate party snack.

Leftover shredded chicken is teamed up with buttery, flaky tortillas and melty Monterey Jack cheese for this quick and easy appetizer.

Want to make chicken taquitos in your air fryer? This easy recipe feature crispy tortillas rolled around a creamy chicken filling.

This recipe for chicken empanadas draws from the empanadas found throughout Latin America, Spain, and Portugal, where the briny bite of olives is coupled with warmer spices, like cumin and smoky paprika. Use leftover cooked chicken for an easier version.

This cozy classic has everything you love and cooks in less than 30 minutes.

There are few things more comforting than a pot of creamy soup, and this one is the epitome of coziness. If really great mushroom soup joined forces with creamy chicken soup, then this creamy chicken and mushroom soup is exactly what you’d get.

Assembled from just a few ingredients, this vibrant lemon and egg soup with shredded chicken might be better than grandma's chicken noodle.

This Cajun recipe represents the marriage of cultures, subtleties of tradition, local ingredients, and, above all, community. To amp the convenience factor in this recipe, raw chicken thighs can be replaced with shredded rotisserie chicken.

There are so many different types of delicious chicken noodle soup out there, but for us there’s something especially delightful about a version that adds in bright and bold lemony flavors. This lemon orzo chicken soup with fresh dill fits the bill.

This copycat Olive Garden chicken gnocchi soup has everything from the creamy broth to the pillowy gnocchi, chicken, and vegetables.

The Korean red chili paste levels up chicken noodle soup with the perfect amount of heat.

It’s a hearty soup packed with juicy chunks of chicken, earthy wild rice, and thick-cut vegetables, all swimming in a creamy, herb-infused broth.

This weeknight recipe starts with boxed chicken broth and a rotisserie chicken for ease and convenience.

One sip of this soup is like getting wrapped in your warmest, coziest sweater. Between the thick chunks of vegetables, tender cubes of Yukon gold potatoes, juicy shreds of chicken, and thick, creamy broth, it truly doesn’t get more comforting than chicken potato soup.

This ultra cozy soup uses up every last piece of a rotisserie chicken.

Chicken soup with vegetables and herbs is pure cold weather comfort food, and this version takes it up a notch with a luxe, creamy broth.

Skip the hassle of cooking the chicken yourself and pick up a rotisserie chicken. This chicken salad has grapes, a combination of mayo and Greek yogurt as the base, and celery seed.

The homemade dressing and shredded rotisserie chicken are really what make this a hit. You can always swap in your favorite bottled Caesar dressing in place of homemade to make it even easier.

This easy trick using rotisserie chicken delivers the fastest shawarma. The flavorful dressing is made with Greek yogurt, garlic, nutty tahini, and pickled pepper brine.

Packed with bright, fresh, bold flavors and juicy strips of leftover grilled chicken breast, this is the chicken salad you'll eat on repeat all week long. It has cucumbers, juicy tomatoes, creamy avocado, pickled red onions, tangy goat cheese crumbles, and a punchy vinaigrette.

By shredding the chicken breast meat (here’s how to do it in less than a minute!) and picking up just two other ingredients while you're at Costco, you can turn them into a super-quick and tasty meal that’s perfect on a busy weeknight.

Sandwiched between bread or wrapped up in lettuce leaves, this curried chicken salad a great way to use up leftover roast chicken or cooked chicken breast.

This perfect make-ahead salad with cooked chicken and Persian cucumbers is bound to become an instant classic.

A 20-minute dinner salad inspired by the roasted chicken salad at Buvette, a French bistro in NYC’s West Village. This easy salad relies on pantry ingredients like Dijon mustard, red wine vinegar, and olive oil for the dressing, then some shredded rotisserie chicken and asparagus to bulk it up.

Gỏi gà (translated to “chicken salad”) couldn’t be simpler: shredded cabbage and chicken, mixed up with julienned veggies, all tossed in a vinegary dressing cut with sugar and fish sauce. The dish requires very little cooking (and can actually be made with rotisserie chicken!).

Rotisserie chicken, toasted bread cubes, and sweet summer veggies combine for a shortcut panzanella you'll want to eat all week long.

Juicy pieces of chicken, fresh corn, and ripe avocado are tossed in an herby lemon vinaigrette.

Say what you will about leftover cooked chicken breast, this cold Korean chicken salad with a toasty sweet mustard dressing is greater than the sum of its parts.

Store-bought buttery biscuits bake over chicken and veggies in a rich, creamy sauce.

This retro recipe for chicken and broccoli casserole is ultra-comforting.

Baked in creamy salsa verde sauce and topped with gooey Oaxaca cheese, these chicken enchiladas are unbelievably delicious.

This creamy chicken casserole tastes like — you guessed it — a million bucks.

Layer buttery mashed potatoes over French-inspired chicken pot pie filling for the ultimate comfort food.

This simple, creamy poppy seed casserole is perfect for nights when you just can’t. Use leftover cooked chicken breasts, chicken thighs, or a combination, or shred a store-bought rotisserie chicken.

With a handful of store-bought ingredients, no planning ahead, and one single, solitary casserole dish, you can make a totally cozy dinner at home in no time.

An easy casserole recipe made from boxed stuffing, canned cream of chicken or mushroom soup, and a bag of frozen veggies.

This weeknight-friendly chicken Parmesan biscuit bake is held together by two staples — and smart supermarket shortcuts — for an easy meal the whole family will love.

In the canon of weeknight dinners, none is more apt at using up leftovers in a way that is flavorful, cozy, and easy than enchiladas. Tender chicken gets dressed up with spicy, piquant enchilada sauce, covered in shredded cheese, then wrapped in tortillas and baked until warm.

Ranch-enthusiasts will love this cheesy, flavor-packed casserole.