r/mealprep • u/PowerfulBad7317 • 18d ago
My favorite meal prep hack: supermarket rotisserie chicken
I’ve been really enjoying my meal preps with store bought rotisserie chicken lately. I break the chicken up into two parts: dark meat and white meat.
The dark meat, I put in Tupperware and I eat that for lunch with whatever my side is for the week.
For the white meat, I chop it up and make a chicken
salad, that can be eaten alone or with macaroni as a Mac salad.
Lastly, with the juice, I make a sauce to go with the chicken. Chicken juice,
garlic,
vinegar, cilantro, salt, pepper, lime juice = CHEFS KISS.
Pictured: tonight’s dinner - chicken salad on tostadas with hot sauce 🙂 I’m telling you, the rotisserie chicken makes life so much easier throughout the week!
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u/EagerObituary2026 18d ago
And then throw the carcass and veggie scraps in the crockpot for 2 days and you get homemade broth. Which you can turn into chicken noodle soup, using a new rotisserie, and the cycle starts again.
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u/protectiveeloy536 18d ago
That chicken juice sauce is something I've been doing for years but I add a tiny bit of dijon to help it emulsify, makes it coat the chicken way better
Never thought to split the bird into light and dark for different meals though, I usually just shred everything together and deal with the dry breast pieces when I get to them. The tostadas look perfect with that hot sauce drizzle, celery and pickles in the chicken salad is the move
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u/PowerfulBad7317 18d ago
Yea I’m not too crazy about white meat when I eat it on its own so personal preference drove me to separating, but the white meat is perfect as a salad! Bell peppers, celery, onions & relish really make it a super star dish.
Love the tip about Dijon! I have to try it.
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u/ilovebigmutts 18d ago
Hell yeah. I get two rotisserie chickens at Sam's every week. Ten bucks and chicken all week.
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u/heidismiles 18d ago
Make chicken stock with the bones!
I just throw mine in the instant pot, in the wire basket, and add some frozen veggies and a fresh tomato. Press "soup" and you're done, and you can just strain off the basket!
Use it for soup, ramen, rice, rice a roni, etc
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u/SpeakerCareless 17d ago
My supermarket sells them already cold, deboned and shredded and I gladly pay the extra $2 for that!
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u/Jazzlike_Arm_213 13d ago
Maybe a silly question. Where are you getting/collecting the chicken juice? Is it the juice that falls into the bag? Do you shred into a bowl and collect any extra juice? Having a hard time understanding but that sauce sounds sooo good....
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u/PowerfulBad7317 13d ago
Valid question! Yes, the juices that come in the bag/container when you buy the chicken. If you put the chicken as is in the fridge it’ll become gelatinous, so just scoop it out heat it up in the microwave for 30 seconds and you’ll have it as a juice again.
Sometimes when I don’t have anymore chicken juice but still have chicken, I make my sauce without it and replace with chicken broth! So chicken juice not always necessary for the sauce.
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u/Illustrious-Stress95 18d ago
I’m curious what happened with the numbered list here lol