Leftover chicken recipes Instant Pot style are the best. Do NOT waste food, instead use rotisserie chicken breast into a second one pot meal in your pressure cooker, Crockpot Express or Ninja Foodi. Best leftover chicken breast recipes We love.

A person holds a plastic-covered bowl filled with seasoned, shredded chicken, solid for leftover chicken recipes. An Instant Pot can be seen in the background, ready to create delightful dishes from these tender morsels.

We HATE wasting food! We have made so many leftover chicken recipes this way that we thought we'd share them with you. We cannot be alone. Using a few ingredients in your pantry and fridge you too can make this new pressure cooker dinner or more in our list below. Easy Instant Pot recipes are here.

This was a throw together meal one night when we had made Instant Pot salsa chicken the night before, and had a few cups left over. It was too good to throw away so we looked to see what we had that would taste good with it.

Ninja Foodi Leftover Chicken Recipes

We are all about easy and quick Ninja Foodi recipes. Or use a Crockpot Express, the brand doesn't matter. Though with this one you will need to remember that the lid that is not attached is the correct one to pressure cook.

This works if you have eaten part of a rotisserie chicken but have some left over the next day. Made boiled shredded chicken but didn't eat it all? Use that too, as long as it is precooked you can throw it in using the measurements below.

Ingredient notes

For the focused recipe at the bottom, easiest, you will want to start with some chopped leftover chicken breast pre-cooked meat

Can of corn kernels drained
A can of black beansdrained and rinsed
Salsamedium is best to add as much flavor as possible
Chicken broth and water, or use one of the two but stick with the same amount listed below
Uncooked white rice

In our recipe card below you'll see instructions for the black bean, corn and 2 cups Instant Pot rice Mexican casserole style dish you see here. Then we will list many others above that you can try if you have leftovers. any sort of diced or shredded chicken or beef works with them.

Substitutions

We added lots of cheese to this too but if you needed a dairy free option you could leave that out. As far as seasonings we sprinkled in salt and pepper and then added more when done. Depending on how seasoned your meat is you may need less or more.

This is what we had in the cupboard that we thought would go well together. The most important aspect of this is the ratio of liquid to grains. As for the veggies you could leave that can out if you didn't want corn included, but it brings great texture to the dish.

You're going to use about 2 cups of meat for this. This should be measured after it's been diced up into smaller pieces. We wouldn't add much more than that or else there won't be enough liquid for the starches to absorb.

What Can You Make with Leftover Chicken in a Pressure Cooker?

You're going to start with putting your leftover chicken breast (or thighs) into the pressure cooker on bottom. Then drain your can of corn and dump this in. Drain and rinse the can of black beans. Dump that on top. Sprinkle in the white uncooked rice on top (we haven't tested Instant Pot brown rice yet).

Pour in liquids followed by the salsa. Use the back of a spoon to gently submerge rice on top into liquid below, do NOT stir. Sprinkle with salt and pepper, and any other seasonings you like. Close lid and seal steam valve. Cook on manual high pressure cook for 6 minutes cook time with a 8 minute natural release. Do not quick release or rice won't be done.

Lift lid, fluff rice and mix contents gently. Sprinkle top with cheese and set lid on to melt. We add an added layer of shredded cheese on the top of each serving. A slice or two of avocado is good and a dollop of sour cream after that is even better.

Rice, black beans, corn, and diced tomatoes are mixed together in an Instant Pot, with the option to add leftover chicken for extra flavor. The ingredients are partially cooked, showing distinct kernels of corn and tomato pieces. The cooker is marked with PC MAX – 2/3 on the side.

Recipes with Leftover Chicken Breasts

Our favorite is probably our Instant Pot chicken thighs and rice. We have shared so many because our mom never let any food go to waste. It was common for us to have casserole recipes to eat because of this. Add some vegetables, and either rice or pasta and voila, you have a brand new meal.

We have a few other ideas you can try too that we know you'll like this Instant Pot fajita soup recipe. This one could easily use shredded beef instead if that is what you have on hand. Then there comes soup, we probably make one of these more than anything else because they come out so good.

During the Winter months we love Instant Pot chicken pot pie soup or Instant Pot buffalo chicken dip.
Add tons of veggies to Instant Pot chicken vegetable soup for a cheap and healthy meal.
We grew up on chicken and rice casserole but now we make it in a pressure cooker to make things even faster.
If you want to make this, but with noodles instead of rice follow our pressure cooker Mexican casserole here.

Another one with pasta is Instant Pot chicken noodle casserole dish. Want to make an unusual dish kids will love? Give peanut butter chicken a whirl some night. find one of many IP recipes on our blog featuring this white meat and skip the initial saute function since it's already cooked basically!

Recipes using leftover chicken don't have to be boring y'all! We mean yeah you can throw it on top of a salad or make some boring egg noodles and serve that as a side dish but there are so many pressure cooker chicken recipes to choose from here.

Instant Pot Leftover Chicken Recipe

By Leftover chicken recipes Instant Pot style are the best. Do NOT waste food, instead make it into a second one pot meal in a pressure cooker. Prep: 10 minutes minsCook: 6 minutes minsServings: 6 Save Recipe Saved! Pin Recipe Comment Print Recipe

Equipment

Ingredients

2 c leftover chicken, chopped or shredded
1 can corn, kernels, drained
1 can black beans, drained and rinsed
1 c salsa
2 c rice, white, jasmine, uncooked
1 c water
1.5 c chicken broth
salt and pepper, to taste
1 c cheese, optional

Instructions

Pour leftover chicken into pressure cooker on bottom. Drain can of corn and dump this in on top.
Drain and rinse can of black beans, dump that in. Sprinkle in uncooked rice on top. Pour in water and broth followed by salsa. Use the back of a spoon to gently submerge rice on top into liquid below, do not stir.
Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Close lid and seal steam valve. Cook on high pressure for 6 minutes with a 8 minute natural release. Release rest of steam.
Lift lid, fluff rice and mix contents gently. Sprinkle top with cheese and set lid on to melt.
Serve topped with slices of avocado and a dollop of sour cream on top.

Nutrition

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

Additional Info

Course: Entree, Main CourseCuisine: American, Mexican Tried this recipe?Mention @thetypical_mom or tag #thetypicalmom!

How many times can you reheat leftover chicken?

Technically you can do this several times but each time will dry it out and the taste will continue to diminish. Since the proteins were already saved and refrigerated once, and then reheated to make this we typically won't save what is left. We suppose 1 day would be fine to store in a container in the fridge and reheated but we choose not to.

When you do save your meat initially you should always make sure you package it up once it is at room temperature and use it up in one of these ways within 3 days of it being cooked initially. You want to save it the right way so there is no chance of bacterial growth.

Give one or more of our comfort food ideas here and let us know what you think! Do you have a favorite that you stick with on a regular basis we should try? We bet you have one in mind that your family asks for again and again too. Let us know in the comments below or email us.