Two VERY QUICK Hormone-Healthy Rotisserie Chicken Recipes
that require minimal effort!
Ah yes! Another set of VERY QUICK (minimal-effort-required but still hormone-healthy) recipes for you to try out!
But first, let’s quickly recap what makes these recipes “hormone-healthy”? 🧐
It’s pretty simple actually. For one, they’re balanced with protein, carbs, fat, and fiber which helps keep your blood sugar steady. Regulated blood sugar levels optimize your adrenal function, help keep your hormones balanced, and keep you from experiencing any crashes throughout the day. Yay, steady energy! 😄
Another VERY important part of what makes these meals “hormone-healthy” is the quality of the ingredients used. You want to aim for whole food ingredients (food close to the form in which it grew), organic (whenever possible), and if you’re consuming animal foods, go for grass-fed, pasture-raised, or wild-caught (conventional animal products can be highly inflammatory).
That being said, the recipes I’m sharing below feature grab-n-go Rotisserie Chickens, so I highly recommend choosing organic and pasture-raised if possible (it can be tricky to find). You can also cook a full chicken at home and use these recipes to prep quick meals with it! It just depends on how “quick” and how “minimal-effort-required” you want this to be.
Now, let us get to the good stuff, shall we? 😜
Cait’s Buffalo Chicken Nachos
Ingredients
Rotisserie Chicken (organic, pasture-raised if possible)
Chicken Bone Broth (organic and pasture-raised)
Black Beans (if canned, organic, unsalted, and look for BPA-free cans)
Garlic (2 cloves)
Mango Salsa (I buy this one at the Coconut Grove Farmer’s Market so it’s already prepared, but you can also prep this beforehand and keep it stored for recipes like this). Here are the ingredients below:
Organic mango
Organic red onion
Organic fresh-squeezed lemon juice
Organic jalapeno
Organic cilantro
Sea salt
Grass-fed Butter
THIS Buffalo Sauce (Primal Kitchen)
Siete Dip Chip Grain-Free Tortilla Chips
Cheese (from grass-fed cows or pastured goats)
Instructions
Shred parts of your rotisserie chicken up until you feel you have enough for your nachos (I like to use my fingers to just rip the chicken up lol)
Heat a pan on low/medium heat and melt some butter (maybe a tablespoon? I’m all for eyeballing)
Once the butter is melted, add the shredded chicken and saute for a few minutes.
Add a small amount of bone broth to the pan to moisten up your chicken (rotisserie chicken always tends to be dry lol). Keep moving the chicken around in the pan with the butter and bone broth every so often until it starts feeling soft (the temperature on the stovetop should be low).
Add some buffalo sauce to the chicken (to your liking) and mix in.
In a saucepan, on medium/low heat add some butter. Once melted, add in 2 gloves of garlic (minced) and cook for a few minutes.
Rinse your black beans (if using canned) and add them to the saucepan with the garlic. Add in any additional seasonings.
Add chips to a baking tray over a piece of parchment paper. I personally toast the chips in our Cosori but a regular oven is great too (maybe at 400?). Toast/Bake the chips until they’re golden brown. This is a very small window! So keep your eye on them and make sure they don’t burn!
Once the chips are done, pull them out & assemble the nachos! I usually start by adding the chicken, then the beans, then the cheese, and then the salsa.
Enjoy!
Cait’s Pesto Chicken and Rice
Ingredients
Rotisserie Chicken (organic, pasture-raised if possible)
Chicken Bone Broth (organic and pasture-raised)
Cherry tomatoes (organic)
Zucchini (organic)
Kale (organic)
Chickpeas (if canned, organic, unsalted, and look for BPA-free cans)
Rice or quinoa (organic, and sprouted)
Sea Salt
Garlic powder
Pepper
Pesto (I buy mine at the Coconut Grove Farmers Market and it’s made from all organic ingredients). Here’s what’s inside:
Organic extra-virgin cold-pressed olive oil
Organic fresh basil
Organic fresh parsley
Organic fresh cilantro
Organic raw walnuts
Organic fresh lemon juice
Organic raw pinenuts
Organic fresh garlic
French grey sea salt
Organic black pepper
There are also a lot of great homemade pesto recipes online. This one by The First Mess is really simple if you decide to go that route 😉
Instructions
Cook the rice or quinoa to your liking (I usually cook my grains using bone broth for additional nutrients).
Shred parts of your rotisserie chicken up until you feel you have enough for your dish (I like to use my fingers to just rip the chicken up lol)
Heat a pan on medium/high heat and melt some coconut or avocado oil.
Add in cherry tomatoes (halved), chopped zucchini, and seasoning (I usually go for sea salt and garlic powder, sometimes pepper too). Sautee until almost cooked (I like to cook my zucchini at a high temp to get a nice brown color on the outside and so they’re not too soft inside).
Add in the chopped kale and chickpeas. Add more seasoning. Stir and cook for a few more minutes.
Add in your shredded chicken and mix around.
Add in a little bone broth if it seems dry.
Once everything is cooked, add in the pesto and stir around.
All done! Just top the pesto chicken and veggies over some of your cooked rice/quinoa! You can also shred some fresh cheese on top! I feel like a parmesan would go really well with this 😜