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Leftover Roast Dinner Ideas!!!

27 replies

Galaxygirl93 · 07/10/2019 21:08

I've started to have roast dinners now the weather is getting colder and enjoying trying different things with the leftovers for once. Please share your ideas here.

We have tried so far:-
-Another Roast! Its only myself and my DH sooo I buy a large chicken, enough veg and yorkshires, store the cooked meat in the fridge for a day and have a roast the day after/2 days after.

-Chicken wraps! This is so quick and easy. Buy some wraps, some salad, reheat the chicken and voila!

OP posts:
Kirbs1979 · 07/10/2019 21:12

Pies, get some ready made pastry (or make your own), you could probably do a soup, use the chicken in a curry or a sweet and sour sauce and do some rice.

Mummybares · 07/10/2019 21:15

Chicken soup, stirfry, caesar salad.

Mummybares · 07/10/2019 21:17

Chicken paata, chicken couscous, chicken parcels in filo pastry filling chicken summac caramelised onion and toasted pinenuts, chicken topped pizza

JPduck · 07/10/2019 21:18

Curry

Benjispruce · 07/10/2019 21:19

Chicken salad for work lunches is my fave.

Bcnamechanger · 07/10/2019 21:22

Chez BC leftover lamb becomes moussaka (hfw recipe from the meat book) and beef becomes beef and mushroom stroganoff.

Leftover chicken is a mumsnet fallacy.

MintedLamb · 07/10/2019 21:24

I usually curry leftover chicken and turn leftover veg into bubble and squeak, my fave! Served with a fried egg on top!

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 07/10/2019 21:27

Cold chicken with bubble and squeak.

I do extra roast potatoes and parsnips with the roast, plus extra stuffing and sprouts, and the next day, I chop it all up fairly finely, fry some sliced onions, then add the mix of all the other stuff and fry it until it is deeply golden brown with crunchy bits.

I have it with cold chicken and cold bread sauce, dh has his with the cold chicken and hot, leftover gravy.

It works with cold roast pork too.

Sockworkshop · 07/10/2019 21:28

Make large Yorkshires,stuff with roast dinner and freeze individually .
Absolutely brilliant when you are short of time.
Make gravy and do some veg and dinner is ready!

BikeRunSki · 07/10/2019 21:28

Use the left over meat and veg as pasty fillings

IceniSky · 07/10/2019 21:31

Curry the chicken and bubble and squeak the veg. I always cook more.

Or I'll honey roast the veg and stick in a roasted root veg frittata the next, with a salad and salad cream or pickle!

huskyvoice · 07/10/2019 21:47

Nigella cookbooks tend to have good recipes for what to do with leftovers. I've made her chicken noodle soup after a chicken roast and it was tasty.

Go to homemade dishes for leftover meat here are:

Special fried rice or noodles (onions, garlic, whatever veg and meat were with dinner along with the chosen carbs, soy sauce and usually for me sweet chilli sauce as well, although I have been known to do it properly in the past with Chinese rice wine etc and it was way better, this is my less than 10 minutes after school gobble up guaranteed dinner for the boys.

Generic pasta bake with leftover chicken (white sauce, bit of mascarpone, rosemary, stuffing sprinkled on top as a crumb).

Cold cuts, salad and chips 😋

Also agree with pp about soups, also have chucked leftover roasted meat into vegetable based risottos.

Will also say that the best thing I like with leftover roast dinner is slapping it all between two slices of bread, all warmed up, with a drizzle of bisto jus on top 👌

theemmadilemma · 07/10/2019 21:51

Left over chicken, veg and gravy mixed to go in pies.
Left overs as above with cut up left over roast pots reheated with gravy like a stew served in a yorkshire pudding bowl

MsMustDoBetter · 07/10/2019 21:51

Soup and sandwiches?

longtompot · 07/10/2019 21:56

I made pie with left over chicken and veg from yesterdays roast. I have also made a version of stovies with roast pork.

AdaColeman · 07/10/2019 21:57

Chicken with white wine sauce & served with rice
Pasta Alfredo
Chicken and leek or ham or mushroom pie
Chicken and mushroom or asparagus risotto

Cold roast pork with beans and fried potatoes
Pork and beans
Pork noodle soup
Pork chow mien or special rice

Lamb pasties with left over gravy & diced vegetables
Lamb hot pot or stovies or cobbler with a scone topping.

cdtaylornats · 07/10/2019 22:06

Stovies

Original poster
Galaxygirl93 · 07/10/2019 22:42

All these suggestions are making me hungry!!

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gamerchick · 07/10/2019 22:44

Curry, bubble and squeak. Pie. Same as above really Grin

I'm hungry now.

SnackBadger · 07/10/2019 22:48

Cook a pancake batter mix in a shallow baking tray, this will result in a flatish Yorkshire pudding. Smoother in horseradish and fill with leftover beef. Make a thick gravy for dipping sauce. Nothing will ever beat this!

SnackBadger · 07/10/2019 22:50

Sorry you are meant to make a beef and Yorkshire wrap and dip in the thick gravy. It’s bliss.

30to50FeralHogs · 07/10/2019 22:59

I put the chicken carcass on to cook after we’ve finished eating and stripped off the meat. Then use this along with the potatoes, a carrots, greens etc to make a soup. It’s nice with a bit of bread sauce and sage & onion stuffing stirred in too, for flavour and thickening.

30to50FeralHogs · 07/10/2019 23:00

Sorry that should say to make stock.

StealingYourWiFi · 08/10/2019 12:04

Make extra everything. Potatoes, parsnips, carrots, peas etc. Then make it into a leftovers pie. We usually have a creamy sauce with chicken and then top with ready roll puff. You can serve with whatever veg isn’t in the pie, gravy etc

FreeButtonBee · 08/10/2019 12:05

Bubble ad squeak with a fried egg on top. May need some extra mash to stretch it. Finely chopped roasties are delish in this.