Leftover Chicken: The best leftover chicken recipes treat the chicken as a cooked ingredient, not a reheated main. Shredded braised thighs in tacos. Sliced roast chicken in pho broth. Picked bones into stock. The recipe changes; the chicken does not.
What to Do With Leftover Chicken
The Chickeeen standard for leftover chicken: dark meat (thighs, drumsticks) survives reheating and moisture loss. Leftover breast should not be reheated — it should be served cold or in liquid (soup, broth). Shredded leftover thigh works in anything. Leftover whole bird becomes stock; the stock becomes something else.