Best Leftover Chicken Recipes and Leftover Chicken Cooking Ideas

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What is Leftover Chicken?

What is chicken?Chicken is a type of poultry available in many sizes and varieties, fresh, frozen, and pre-cooked.How to Buy:Choices: broiler-fryers: weigh 2 ½ -4 ½ lbs.; Rock Cornish game hen weigh 1-2 lbs.; roasters weigh 5-7 lbs., roast whole; Capons: male chickens weigh 4-7 lbs. roasted. Stewing/baking hens: 2-5 lbs. Cock/Roosters: mature...

Leftover Chicken Shopping Tips

Buy whole chickens and ask the butcher to quarter them for you. You will save an average of $5 per pound, or more.

Leftover Chicken Cooking Tips

Allow meat to rest for at least ten minutes before slicing into it; otherwise, the juices will leak out.

Wine Pairing

Pinot noir, gamay, merlot, zinfandel, carménère, pinotage, or grenache with grilled, roasted, or other simply cooked chicken; chardonnay, pinot gris/grigio, pinot blanc, or chenin blanc with chicken in cream or light tomato sauce or with chicken crêpes or croquettes; sauvignon blanc or sémillon with fried chicken; viognier with spiced chicken dishes.

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