Wondering what to do with leftover cooked chicken? Whether it's brown or white meat, cooked chicken breast, thighs or leftover legs, there are so many delicious recipes you can make with your leftovers.

Here, we've rounded up some of our best recipes for leftover cooked chicken that are super easy to make. From our speedy chicken laksa to our Mexican chicken salad, use your leftover cooked chicken to create one of these tasty meals.

How to incorporate leftover chicken into your meal

Whilst you can use any part of your cooked chicken as leftovers, chicken breast is naturally much drier than the leg meat. Therefore, we would recommend adding chicken breast at the end of cooking process of a leftover recipe (but make sure it is heated all the way through) or just cold to salads or on top of soups.

Leg meat can withstand being cooked for longer so this is better for pies or pasta bakes that require you adding the meat earlier on in the recipe.

How to store your leftovers

In order to store your leftovers safely make sure to cool any cooked meat quickly at room temperature (ideally in no longer than 1.5hrs). Then, store in an airtight container or wrap in several layers of clingfilm and refrigerate for up to 2 days or freeze for up to a month.

You can only re-heat leftovers once (and make sure they are piping hot when you do), so it's best to chill or freeze in portions. If frozen, defrost in the fridge overnight and consume within 24hr.

Turkey and chicken act much in the same way, so if you see any of Good Housekeeping's leftover turkey recipes you like the look of, then simply swap out the turkey for chicken.

Using a jar of curry paste makes this laksa super speedy and highly flavoursome, and it all comes together in only 10 minutes!

Recipe: Speedy Chicken Laksa

Ready in just 15min, you can use any leftover meat you have in your fridge.

Recipe: Leftover Chicken Pasta

This easy chowder is a crowd pleaser and takes under 30 minutes to make if you use cooked, leftover chicken.

Recipe: Easy Chicken Chowder

Add prawns or shredded cooked chicken to the roll, if you like, and whatever crunchy vegetables you have to hand

Recipe: Summer rolls with satay dip

Simple to put together and crammed with good-for-you ingredients, this super salad is sure to restore the spring in your step

Recipe: Detox Chicken Salad

Turn to this pie recipe when you have leftover roast chicken and vegetables.

Recipe: Roast Chicken Pie

Using cooked chicken breasts makes these easy chicken enchiladas super simple to put together.

Recipe: Four cheese chicken enchiladas

This recipe is full of protein to keep you going for longer. Feel free to mix up the additions to whatever you have in your fridge.

Recipe: Chicken and Quinoa Salad

Chicken pies can be quite a faff to bring together – not sure when the cheeses melt to make an unctuous sauce and you use pre-cooked chook. This one is so much easier! Easiest ever pie!

Recipe: Gnocchi-Topped Chicken Pie

This spiced chicken curry is packed full of flavour and is good for you too. Add in the leftover chicken at the very end for a speedy supper.

Recipe: Chicken Passanda

Using cooked, leftover chicken in this broth saves you time and makes this recipe a breeze. Skip the first step completely in this recipe.

Recipe: Healing Chicken and Ginger Broth

We love chicken burgers, and this summer burger recipe is perfect for the BBQ.

Recipe: Chicken Burger

A triple-tested recipe perfect for a midweek chicken fix.

Recipe: Chicken, ham and sweet potato enchiladas

This lunchtime treat means your leftover cooked chicken will never go to waste!

Recipe: Chicken club sandwich

Cheesy, crispy and tasty, this triple-tested chicken recipe is great for using up leftovers.

Recipe: Cheesy chicken crisp bakes

A savoury cobbler made with chicken leftovers but fit for a tasty dinner.

Recipe: Chicken cobbler

Jazz this risotto up with leftover chicken

Recipe: Parmesan and garlic risotto

This creamy chicken recipe makes an excellent filling for a tasty sweet potato.

Recipe: Chicken tarragon sweet potatoes

This delicious chicken bake takes minimal preparation time, leaving you freed up while the dish cooks away.

Recipe: Creamy oven-baked chicken with garlic potatoes

A quick supper recipe to put together when you're pressed for time.

Recipe: Chicken and feta frittata

Use your leftover cooked chicken for this hearty one-pot meal, sure to be a crowd pleaser!

Recipe: Chicken and asparagus pie

Inspired by an American ‘chopped’ salad, this easy assembly job is sure to become a summer favourite and is a quick and easy way to use up leftover cooked chicken.

Recipe: Mexican chicken salad

Chorizo, peppers and sherry bring a Spanish flair to a classic chicken pie recipe.

Recipe: Chicken and chorizo pie

This hearty but healthy stew is low in fat but high on the satisfaction scale.

Recipe: Chicken and barley stew

This fresh and filling salad has bags of flavour from preserved lemons and fresh herbs.

Recipe: Lemon chicken couscous salad

This flavour-packed easy lasagne is perfect for a quick family supper as it uses lots of helpful shortcut ingredients, requires no pre-cooking and takes minutes to assemble

Recipe: Chicken fajita lasagne