Chicken a la king

This is an old-school method of reusing leftover chicken that never fails to please. There are as many recipes for chicken a la king as there are cooks, but they all involve chicken pieces swimming in a creamy sauce with various vegetables. The traditional sauce for this is a roux-thickened béchamel made with milk, but there are shortcuts if you need to get dinner on the table quickly. To coat the chicken, peas, pimentos, and mushrooms in this simple chicken a la king recipe, combine cream, chicken stock, and canned cream of mushroom soup.

This dish is extremely saucy and requires starch to soak up all of the juices. Plain white rice or egg noodles, as well as toast points or biscuits, would work well. If you want to take your chicken a la king to the next level, make some puff pastry cups, also known as vol-au-vents, and fill them with the chicken mixture.