Turn Leftovers Into Delicious Meals With These Expert Tips
- Meals that keep on giving
Weekends were made for long, lingering meals with friends and family, with roasted meats and side dishes everyone can share. If you find yourself with leftovers, even better. Here, we reveal how to turn all those extras into delicious dishes that'll save you time and money – and provide marvelous meals all week long.
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Turn Leftovers Into Delicious Meals With These Expert Tips
A strong contender for the most popular of all roast meats, roast chicken with all the trimmings is the perfect family feast. Delicious both hot or cold, a supply of cooked chicken is a brilliant thing to have in the fridge and can be added to salads and sandwiches, as well as turned into all manner of new dishes.
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Turn Leftovers Into Delicious Meals With These Expert Tips
For days when only a big bowl of comfort will do, this speedy dish is just the ticket. To make enough soup for two people, sauté 5 sliced spring onions and a couple of handfuls of chopped mushrooms in a saucepan over a medium-high heat, until the onions are starting to turn golden. Add 2 finely chopped garlic cloves and cook for a minute more, then pour over 24fl oz good-quality chicken stock. Bring to a simmer, add 2 large handfuls of green vegetables (think frozen peas, shredded kale, green beans or asparagus tips) and around 10oz (300g) leftover shredded roast chicken. Simmer until it's all heated through, and serve.
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Turn Leftovers Into Delicious Meals With These Expert Tips
Quesadillas are a fantastic, budget-friendly way of using up leftover chicken. Take yours in a Tex-Mex direction by filling flour tortillas with tomato salsa, refried beans, grated Cheddar, sliced spring onions and shredded chicken. Cook in a dry frying pan until the tortillas are golden and the cheese melted. Serve with sour cream, extra salsa and lime wedges.
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Turn Leftovers Into Delicious Meals With These Expert Tips5. Roast chicken leftovers: Thai-style broth
A quick Thai-style broth is just the thing for piquing taste buds and pepping up leftover chicken. Heat the chopped chicken through in a saucepan with a couple of tablespoons of your favorite ready-made Thai curry paste. Add vegetables – chopped fresh tomatoes, green beans, peppers and baby corn all work well – and cover with coconut milk. Stir well and, once heated through, finish with sliced red chilies, lime juice and soy sauce, to taste.
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For a super-tasty and seriously easy meal, use cooked shredded chicken to form the base of a comforting pie. Follow the recipe below from step 3 onwards, sautéing the bacon with the leeks, onions and celery until softened and adding the cooked chicken to the pan when instructed in step 4. Serve piping hot, with roasted carrots or buttery peas on the side.
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Turn Leftovers Into Delicious Meals With These Expert Tips
Turn Leftovers Into Delicious Meals With These Expert Tips
This pasta dish might only call for five minutes preparation, but thanks to an ingredients list featuring the likes of fennel, double cream, white wine, chopped tarragon and leftover chicken, the end result is rich, complex and wonderfully satisfying. Serve with a leafy green salad and garlic bread and you’ve got yourself an absolute treat of a weeknight meal.
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Turn Leftovers Into Delicious Meals With These Expert Tips
A chicken curry that’s ready in a hurry and uses up leftovers, too – what could be better? Sauté a finely chopped onion in oil until softened, then add a few tablespoons of good-quality curry paste. Add chopped cooked chicken, diced fresh tomatoes and enough coconut cream so that the meat simmers in the sauce, but isn’t drowning in it. Cook for five minutes and serve with rice, fresh coriander and naan breads.
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Turn Leftovers Into Delicious Meals With These Expert Tips
Roast vegetables make for a delicious side dish, and can also do double duty as a meal base for the rest of the week. With that in mind, cook up a big batch of olive oil-drizzled roasted veggies at the weekend. Be guided by both the seasons and what’s in your fridge here; the likes of tomatoes, peppers, butternut squash, aubergine, courgette, fennel, parsnips and carrots all roast beautifully and will bring a medley of color and texture to your table.
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Turn Leftovers Into Delicious Meals With These Expert Tips
Delicious as it is, ratatouille can be a bit of a faff to make from scratch. When you have a supply of roasted vegetables ready to go, though, the dish becomes a lesson in simplicity. Just tip your veggies into a saucepan and add tinned tomatoes, torn basil leaves and a scattering of thyme, plus a dash of Tabasco or a little chopped chili if you fancy a bit of extra heat. Serve spooned over rice or as an accompaniment to sausages or leftover roast meat.
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Turn Leftovers Into Delicious Meals With These Expert Tips
A pack of ready-rolled puff pastry is a fridge or freezer essential in our eyes – perfect for topping pies, making quick sweet or savory pinwheel snacks or, in this case, using as the base for a tasty tart. Unroll your pastry sheet onto a baking tray and spread with a layer of cream cheese, followed by a layer of pesto. Pile leftover roasted vegetables on top and dot with pieces of goats’ cheese. Bake in a hot oven until the pastry is crisp and golden.
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Turn Leftovers Into Delicious Meals With These Expert Tips
Couscous really couldn’t be simpler – or quicker – to cook; all you need to do is cover it with some boiling water or hot stock. For a healthy, satisfying main meal or perfect packed lunch, fold roasted vegetables through fluffy, well-seasoned couscous, then add toasted nuts, crumbled feta cheese and a generous drizzle of balsamic dressing.
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Turn Leftovers Into Delicious Meals With These Expert Tips
Homemade soup is only a minute away when you’ve got access to vegetables that are ready roasted. Pile those vegetables into a blender, add enough hot stock, cream or milk to loosen, and blend until well combined. Warm through in a saucepan and serve topped with thick Greek yogurt, crunchy croutons and plenty of black pepper and chopped parsley.
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Turn Leftovers Into Delicious Meals With These Expert Tips
Nothing beats a homemade pie, and this rustic roasted vegetable and brie number is something special. The recipe does call for homemade pastry, but the method is a simple one that can be made in a food processor – plus, the buttery, crumbly end result is well worth the effort. As your vegetables are already roasted, simply follow the method in the recipe below from step 2.
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