Four Ways to Use Leftover Chicken

Whole chickens are a great bargain. If you just roast a chicken and set it out on the table to be picked clean, though, you're probably only going to get a single meal out of a chicken (maybe with some leftovers). With a bit of planning, you can make a single chicken go much farther than that.
Original image by Kai Hendry
How? Consider some of these options:

1. Roast the chicken with extra vegetables, infusing them with chicken flavor. Serve these vegetables with (or as) another meal (Need some ideas to get you started? Chicken-infused root vegetables can be pureed with a bit of cream and some stock to make a wonderful soup. Tomatoes and onions cooked alongside chicken become the basis of an amazing pasta sauce.)
2. Only serve the chicken pieces that people will eat and strip the carcass of the rest of its meat. Use this leftover meat as an accent in another meal. You can add it to a rice or pasta dish, use it for burrito or enchilada fillings, make chicken salad with it, the list is long...
3. Save the chicken carcass (removing the meat first) and use it (along with the neck and gizzards) to make chicken stock.
4. Remove some of the chicken skin and use it to make a pureed sauce for another meal. Yeah, it sounds weird, but it works surprisingly well.

Alternately, if you have an egg-laying chicken, you can get hundreds of meals from it...

Do you have any other money-saving tips for using a chicken? Post in the comments, below.