# Chicken and Beef Combined, Share Your Recipes **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [January 6, 2024, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-and-beef-combined-share-your-recipes/995679 "2024-01-06T00:02:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2024, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-and-beef-combined-share-your-recipes/995679/1 "2024-01-06T00:02:33Z")
Had fried chicken for dinner tonight and had a breast and a wing left over. When I put them in the fridge next to the left over bit of steak it got me thinking that the two meats might do well in a stew of some sort together. I’ve managed to find a few recipes that combine chicken and beef, but I’d like to find something that uses leftovers instead of new. I’m just not feeling super adventurous about this and was hoping you all might have a recipe I could use as a guide in this. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2024, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-and-beef-combined-share-your-recipes/995679/2 "2024-01-06T01:00:35Z")
As I pointed out in a thread, add some pork and you have frozen pizza pepperoni and sausage. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2024, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-and-beef-combined-share-your-recipes/995679/3 "2024-01-06T01:01:52Z")
In Chinese take-out parlance, that is known as Happy Family. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2024, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-and-beef-combined-share-your-recipes/995679/4 "2024-01-06T01:15:56Z")
Virtually any combination of meats can be thrown into a Polish Hunter’s Stew. It’s a great way to use up leftovers. > **[Bigos, or Polish Hunter's Stew, is a Hearty Midwinter Meal](https://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/polish_hunters_stew/)** > > Bigos is a hearty Polish stew made with fresh, smoked, and cured meat, wild and cultivated mushrooms, and a hefty dose of sauerkraut. A perfect cozy meal for a winter day. ---
**Author:** ![Chingon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chingon/32/17645_2.png) [@Chingon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chingon)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2024, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-and-beef-combined-share-your-recipes/995679/5 "2024-01-06T01:20:35Z")
Make tacos ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2024, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-and-beef-combined-share-your-recipes/995679/6 "2024-01-06T01:51:00Z")
Yeah, tacos. Keep the chicken and beef separate but equal. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2024, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-and-beef-combined-share-your-recipes/995679/7 "2024-01-06T02:38:10Z")
I’d have the leftover chicken for lunch tomorrow, and the leftover beef for lunch the next day. But I don’t really like re-cooked meats. (I’d eat them both cold.) ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2024, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-and-beef-combined-share-your-recipes/995679/8 "2024-01-06T03:19:57Z")
You could slice the leftover meat onto a tossed green salad … Pho is a Vietnamese soup that features rice noodles and usually either chicken or beef, but I don’t see why you couldn’t use both. Add cilantro, hoisin sauce, mung bean sprouts, and Sriracha to your taste. ---
**Author:** ![LVBoPeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/858c86/32.png) [@LVBoPeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVBoPeep)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2024, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-and-beef-combined-share-your-recipes/995679/9 "2024-01-06T04:41:28Z")
Combination fried rice? Just grab some pork and/or shrimp and you are golden. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2024, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-and-beef-combined-share-your-recipes/995679/10 "2024-01-06T19:31:57Z")
They promptly took it off the menu as soon as i discovered it, but Olive Garden had a canneloni al forno whose stuffing combined ground chicken and ground veal (and ground pork or pork sausage too, I think) . I think ordinary beef would be just as good. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2024, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-and-beef-combined-share-your-recipes/995679/11 "2024-01-06T20:23:51Z")
Dishes like Jambalaya can be made with any combination of meats, I don’t think I’ve ever combined chicken and beef intentionally for that. I have made a dish from medallions of beef, pork, and chicken tenderloin wrapped in bacon a few times, but the flavors are not intermixed in the dish. Mentioned above was Happy Family and similar dishes that mix savory beef with sweet or spicy chicken. I haven’t made any myself but I enjoy them at restaurants.