Rotisserie chickens have saved me time and effort many a nights and I’m fully grateful for their existence. That being said, it can get boring eating them whole every time, so we created three Low-Carb Rotisserie Chicken Recipes that will take you under 10 minutes to make and under five minutes to devour! When you buy the whole chicken, you get dark meat, white meat, fatty skin and meat right off the bone, so it’s extremely tender and high in fat. Many are lightly seasoned, but all make for a great, quick dinner fix.
What’s Your Favorite Keto Add-In?
When it comes to hitting my macros and also wanting delicious foods, add-ins are a must, in my opinion. Options will seem unlimited. Some of our favorites we think would work in all the recipes in this post as well as in a lot of your others meals are as follows.
- Cheese (obvious)
- Mayonnaise (great for hitting fat macros)
- Bacon Bits (we love crunch)
- Scallions, Celery, Onion (crunchy and flavorful)
- Sriracha (we like it spicy!)
- Pickles (salty and crunchy)
- Seasonings! (curry, onion, garlic, cumin and chili powder, just to name a few)
- Nuts (almonds and macadamia are our favorites)
“Don’t be scared of a little flavor or crunch,” is something I always say to Matt. He’s a simple guy with simple needs, but when it comes to food, being extra will only make your life better. Having add-ins readily available in the fridge or pantry for quick use makes sticking to keto a lot easier. I can get bored of eating the same thing, but throw in some seasonings or veggies for crunch and it feels like a completely different meal.
We’ve Got Three Easy Chicken Recipes…
All you need is store bought rotisserie chicken! We all have busy days and sometimes cooking seems like a lot to take on, so if you can head to the grocery store and pick up a rotisserie chicken on your way home you can still make a delicious, healthy dinner without all the added work. Every grocery store is going to have at least one, if not two options, for chicken. And, when I’m buying one, I’ll always read the ingredients label. Things you might see, but shouldn’t worry you:
- A lot of seasonings – This can add some carbs, but it also adds flavor
- Dextrose or sugar – This is usually low on list of ingredients meaning it’s minimal and we wouldn’t worry too much about it!
- Modified food starch – This will also have minimal impact if any at all so don’t worry about this.
You aren’t likely to see an artificial coloring or flavors, which is a good sign. You may even find a rotisserie chicken with no added sugar or dextrose. We’ve seen them in Kroger!
Low Carb Rotisserie Chicken Recipes
You could easily sub out any of the ingredients listed below to make your own fun variation on these three easy chicken recipes. I think the biggest takeaway is that using an entire rotisserie chicken can be fun and transformed into completely new recipes you wouldn’t expect.
Some other great recipes you can make using a rotisserie chicken are our Mexican shredded chicken and chicken enchilada casserole! When it comes to feeding a family, a change up is always a good thing. If I were to make changes I would do any of the following:
- Swap out the asparagus for broccoli in the Rotisserie Chicken Alfredo
- Add some spices, like curry powder, to my Rotisserie Chicken Salad
- Use blue cheese and add bacon into the Rotisserie Buffalo Chicken Dip
Either way you make it you can’t go wrong with these Low-Carb Rotisserie Chicken recipes!
Recipes can be quickly added to MyFitnessPal – Search: 1. “KetoConnect – Rotisserie Chicken Salad” 2. “KetoConnect – Rotisserie Buffalo Chicken Dip”3. “KetoConnect – Rotisserie Chicken Alfredo”
Chicken Salad
Ingredients:
- 8 oz cooked chicken
- 6 tbsp mayonnaise
- 2 tbsp sour cream
- 2 stalks celery
- 2 stalks green onions
- 1-2 tbsp fresh dill
- 3 tbsp bacon bits
- 1/2 tsp Pink Himalayan Salt
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
Instructions:
- Combine the sour cream and may in a large bowl.
- Chop the chicken up into large or small chunks and add to the mayo mixture.
- Chop up the celery, green onion and mince the fresh dill and add to the bowl.
- Add in the bacon bits and heavily season with salt and pepper.
- Combine using a spoon.
Notes
Buffalo Chicken Dip
Ingredients:
- 8 oz cooked chicken
- 6 oz cream cheese
- 1/2 cup Franks Red Hot sauce
- 1/2 large jalapeno, seeded
- 1/2 cup ranch dressing
- 1/2 cup mozzarella cheese
Instructions:
- Chop the chicken up into small chunks and dice the jalapeno and set aside.
- Heat a bottom heavy sauce pan to medium heat and add int he cream cheese, franks hot sauce, and ranch. Stir to combine.
- Once the cream cheese mixture has melted together add in the chicken and jalapeno. Stir to combine.
- Add in the mozzarella cheese and stir until fully melted. Remove from heat and enjoy as a appetizer dip or as a meal!
- Note: You can serve it with veggies, flackers and pork rinds for dipping or over cauliflower rice for a meal.
Notes
Chicken Alfredo
Ingredients:
- 8 oz cooked chicken
- 8 spears asparagus
- 2 tbsp butter
- 1 tsp minced garlic
- 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
- 1/3 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
- 1/3 cup grated parmesan cheese
- 3 tbsp bacon bits
- 1/2 tsp paprika
- 1/2 tsp Pink Himalayan Salt
- 1/4 tsp black pepper
Instructions:
- Chop the chicken up into large chunks and the asparagus spears into fourths and set aside. Heat a large skillet to medium heat.
- Add butter to the hot pan and allow it to meal down. Once melted add in the minced garlic and asparagus.
- Cook for 2-3 minutes until spears have turned bright green, but still have a crunch.
- Add in the heavy whipping cream, mozzarella and parmesan and stir to combine until fully melted. Add in the paprika, salt and black pepper and combine.
- Add in the chicken and bacon bits and and stir one last time.
- Serve immediately and enjoy! Store in a sealed contained in the fridge up to 1 week.
Notes
Written by
Megha Barot
Megha has always been a passionate cook, but she took this to a new level after starting her keo journey in 2015. She loves creating new recipes and producing educational content for KetoConnect, which she co-founded in 2016 with Matt. Her passion for healthy eating and personal development continues to thrive. She's the proud mom of two awesome kids.
When I add this to my fitness pal with 12 oz chicken I get 477 cals as apossed to your 371, also I did not do bacon bits or asparagus. What is the discrepancy do you sapose.
I made the chicken alfredo and it was amazing! I had a friend over for dinner so I made some noodles for her to eat with it, but I didn’t miss the noodles at all. I love how easy this recipe is and it’s definitely one of my new favorites!
Made all three of these recipes in the last four days — all three will become part of our regular rotation. Thank you again for simple, delicious food that isn’t full of complicated instructions or expensive exotic foods.
These three recipes are perfect and scrumptious! Thank you for sharing!
Any idea what the serving size would be for the chicken alfredo? I know it says 4 servings per recipe but I find it challenging sometimes to work with that instead of having a ‘grams’ amount for each serving.
Sorry, we don’t calculate the grams per serving. You could divide the recipe into four and weigh the serving with a food scale to get the grams per serving.
This was so delicious ! We loved it!!Love your new cookbook as well! Keep up the good work you’re doing for the Keto cooking lifestyle!
Sharon
Can you tell me what brand/types of noodles to be used on keto diet?
Miracle Noodles 🙂
Question regarding what you used the skin from the chicken for? I too enjoy eating the skin from these whole chickens but at one point in the video you set them aside. Thanks for the inspiration and good ideas!
We set it aside to just snack on it on its own, but it would be fine to leave it in the recipe.
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Made the Alfredo tonight, absolutely delicious! Thanks you!!
I just tried the alfredo chicken tonight. It is so good! I just started keto two weeks ago and still can’t believe something like this is my diet food. Thanks!
The Alfredo recipe doesn’t say when to add the heavy cream or did I just not read it correctly?
We are adding that step now! Oops! Add the cream right before you add the cheeses.
Made your Buffalo Recipe with some pulled pork and used a blend of Caesar dressing and sour cream. Mmmmmmmm.
I didnt see in the recipe steps when u add in the heavy cream. Did I miss it?
Sorry about that! We are updating the instructions. Add the cream with the cheeses!
Love these ideas thank you for submitting these great ideas!
Just a question for the Alfredo could you not melt down cream cheese with lots of fresh garlic s&p and that be a sauce?
You could try that! Sounds delicious!
Roberta, loved the idea of using shirataki noodles. I have started using them in a lot of dishes. I cook Italian like my Grandma so I’ve always miss my pasta. Thank you for the idea.
Great tips to save money and effort while having different kind of meals without get bored or waste leftovers!Another way to vary the third recipe could also be to use shirataki “pasta” (changing shapes to preference: fettuccine of course would be first choice for Alfredo’s) if you want to save carbs leaving veggies for one other meal. And to really have no discart, what about keeping the bones to make homemade bone broth (even if I know it could discourage someone…but freezing bones until you have enough of them to prepare a larger quantity coud be an option to do the hard work just one time and then keep the broth portioned in ice-cubes molds to have it on hand when you need it).
And thank you for the information about sugar and starches in rotisserie chicken: here in Italy I’ve never seen this ingredients on the label for this kind of product (only spices mix, salt, and sometimes yeast extract or other things that I try to avoid such as MSG), from now on I’ll double-check the label to be sure (even a tiny-mini amount of any kind of sugar or starch in my case is enough to make my blood glucose arise insanely).
Last thing that I’ve learnt today from your video: in USA you’ve giant chickens 😀 ! Here I’ve never seen any that big, they looks almost turkey for the measureos of poultry we are used to see. I suppose you may think our chicken are quails 😉
USA use Gmo farming and added hormones. In Europe the Danes has clean, gmo free fruit/ veg seeds. The produce tastes more sweet. Our organic here tastes sweet and more flavorful. Added hormones plump the chicken faster.
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When do you add cream to the Alfredo?
Sorry about that! We are updating the instructions. Add the cream with the cheeses!
Megha,
I think the Alfredo recipe is missing the instructions for the half cup of Heavy Cream.
Brenna
Sorry about that! We are updating the instructions. Add the cream with the cheeses!