This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Randalls. All opinions are 100% mine.
I am all about quick and easy meal ideas, and I love finding great solutions that don’t cost a lot. Lately, given that we are not going to the grocery store as frequently, I have also been looking for ways to shop more efficiently. Today I’m sharing quick recipes and tips for how you can stretch your grocery budget with four different meals you can make with one Signature Cafe® Traditional Whole Roasted Chicken and a few other Signature Brand products from my local grocery store. I shopped at Randalls, but you can also find these Signature SELECT™, Signature Farms®, and Signature Cafe products at the Albertsons Companies family of stores, including Albertsons, Safeway, ACME Markets, Jewel-Osco, Vons, Randalls, Shaw’s Supermarket, Star Market, Tom Thumb and Vons or online.
Signature SELECT, Signature Farms, and Signature Cafe brands provide high-quality products for every meal and occasion, available at a value in the Central Texas area exclusively at Randalls stores. I love that Signature brands help you stretch your budget and shopping trips with high-quality products at a great value in EVERY aisle of the store, including ready to eat (like the whole roasted chicken), ready to heat (like the macaroni & cheese I used for one of today’s recipes), and cooking from scratch ingredients. And for those days when you don’t have as much time to cook, Signature Café provides fresh chef-inspired meal solutions for life’s busy moments.
Ready-made whole roasted chickens from the grocery store are an easy dinner idea on their own, but did you know you can save time on other dinner recipes by starting with one of these chickens? You can stretch them into several other meals and save yourself a lot of time and effort. Today I’m sharing how one rotisserie chicken can be used to create four meals: BBQ Chicken Pizza, Mediterranean Chicken Salad, Chicken, Bacon, and Ranch Mac & Cheese, and a Chicken Salad Sandwich. See each easy recipe below, along with a bonus list of other quick meal hacks using a pre-cooked whole roast chicken. Don’t forget to check out Randalls (in-store or online) for everything you need to make these rotisserie chicken hacks.
Here are the recipes!
BBQ Chicken Pizza
Ingredients:
- Signature Cafe Traditional Whole Roasted Chicken
- Signature Cafe Five Cheese Pizza
- BBQ sauce
- Red onion
- Cilantro
- Signature SELECT Artisan Garlic Bread
Instructions:
- Drizzle BBQ sauce over the ready-to-cook cheese pizza.
- Top with shredded chicken, sliced red onion, and chopped cilantro.
- Bake according to the pizza’s package directions.
- Slice and serve with garlic bread.
Mediterranean Chicken Salad
Ingredients:
- Signature Cafe Traditional Whole Roasted Chicken
- Signature Farms Garden Salad
- Red wine vinegar
- Crumbled feta cheese
- Kalamata olives
- Red onion
- Signature SELECT Artichoke Hearts
- Canned fire roasted tomatoes
- Signature SELECT Artisan French Baguette
Instructions:
- Distribute salad mix into bowls and drizzle with red wine vinegar.
- Top with shredded chicken, feta cheese, kalamata olives, diced red onion, artichoke hearts, and tomatoes. Note: If you don’t have all of these ingredients, just skip what you don’t have or make substitutions to your preference.
- Serve with baguette slices on the side.
Chicken, Bacon, and Ranch Mac & Cheese
Ingredients:
- Signature Cafe Traditional Whole Roasted Chicken
- Two packages Signature Cafe Classic Macaroni & Cheese
- Signature SELECT Ranch Salad Dressing
- Signature SELECT Hickory Smoked Bacon, cooked and crumbled
- Signature Farms Garden Salad
- Signature SELECT Caesar Croutons
Instructions:
- Place macaroni & cheese in a microwave-safe bowl.
- Add shredded chicken, ranch dressing, and bacon pieces to the bowl and stir.
- Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and cut a slit in the plastic. Cook in the microwave on high for 3 minutes.
- Stir the macaroni & cheese and serve topped with additional bits of crumbled bacon, with a side garden salad with croutons and ranch dressing.
Chicken Salad Sandwich
Ingredients:
- Signature Cafe Traditional Whole Roasted Chicken
- Mayonnaise
- Red grapes, halved
- Chopped celery
- Chopped red onion
- Chopped walnuts
- Dried tarragon
- Salt and pepper, to taste
- Croissants
Instructions:
- In a mixing bowl, combine shredded chicken with mayonnaise, grapes, celery, red onion, walnuts, tarragon, salt, and pepper until well mixed. Note: If you don’t have all of these ingredients, just skip what you don’t have.
- Slice croissants in half to make two pieces for a sandwich.
- Top the bottom piece of croissant with some of the chicken salad mixture, then add the other croissant piece on top and serve.
Other easy recipes using whole roasted chicken
The recipe possibilities and rotisserie chicken meal hacks don’t end there! Here are a few other easy ways to stretch your pre-cooked whole roasted chicken into other meals (some of these are variations of the recipes above):
- Chicken tacos
- Chicken quesadillas
- Chicken nachos
- Chicken salad stuffed avocados
- White bean chicken chili
- Mediterranean chicken pizza
- Mexican chicken pizza
Don’t forget to look for these great products and more like them the next time you’re at Randalls or shopping online for grocery pickup.
Karins Kottage says
I love these quick meal ideas that sound delicious! Especially for summer so quick and no heating up the house to cook a meal! Great ideas! I would love to have you come and link up to my Centerpiece Wednesday Linky party and share this or any other posts that you would like https://karinskottage.com/2020/06/linky-party-happy-4th-of-july.html Hope to see you there!
Karin