If I buy a rotisserie chicken from my local grocery store, cut off the

[raccoon]

legs and pieces that I want to eat now, can I freeze the rest of it to be used later in a vegetable soup?

[old mark]

1. Sure! we do that all the time - they make great soup, and it's a pretty cheap easy dinner...nt

[Inchworm]

2. Yup - quite cost effective as well

I do it each month :)

:hi:

[rurallib]

3. sure - be sure to tell us if you die or get sick

:P

[surrealAmerican]

4. Nope. You can only make chicken soup.

For vegetable soup you'll need a rotisserie vegetable.

[Old Troop]

8. Best answer!!

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

5. soup, sandwiches, pot pie...

lots of things.

[Deep13]

6. Yes. Except it will not really be vegetable soup.

My wife is a vegitarian and I always have too look at labels to make sure some ostensibly vegetarian soup does not contain chicken or beef stock, which many do.

[struggle4progress]

7. You wanna make soup, you don't need to buy rotisserie chicken:

buy frozen leg quarters or whatever else is cheap, cover with water, and simmer slowly all day until the meat falls from the bone

You can freeze all your leftovers for soup. When the freezer is full, fire up a pot

[Demoiselle]

9. Yes you can.

I've been making chicken soup from raw chickens for a while...but roast chicken carcasses make very nice soup, too. That good nourishment in the bones is still there...
But vegetarians might have a problem with you calling it "vegetable" soup.

[Curmudgeoness]

10. My opinion is that it would not be a very flavorful soup.

All the yummy stuff---chicken fat---that is needed for a good soup is gone. You will basically have some chicken pieces in water. But I have never tried it.

I live alone so also have problems with what to do with the rest of the rot-chicken. I always just take the rest of the chicken off the bone and make chicken tacos or chicken sandwiches in the next day or two.

[Redstone]

11. No reason not to. It'll be bit mushier than if you used fresh chicken

in the soup, but you could mitigate that by adding it at the END of the cooking.

PS: Leftover rotisserie chicken is GREAT for a chicken-salad sandwich the next day.

Redstone