Love Chick-fil-A? Popular chain launches free cookbook featuring retired menu favorites
.jpg "Chick-fil-A’s “Extra Helpings” cookbook features recipes for retired menu favorites and brings awareness to food insecurity. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)")
Chick-fil-A is sharing the recipes to retired menu favorites in its first-ever cookbook.
The “Extra Helpings” cookbook launched Monday, Oct. 16, and features 26 recipes aimed at reducing food waste and food insecurity, the Atlanta-based chicken chain said in a news release.
Fans can find recipes for classic sides including the fan favorite coleslaw, which disappeared from Chick-fil-A menus in 2016, according to the restaurant’s website. The popular side was billed as “the perfect topping to” an original chicken sandwich and joined a long list of discontinued menu items.
A waffle potato fry fritatta made with leftover Chick-fil-A waffle fries, nugget fried rice and Chick-fil-A chicken salad are among other recipes featured in the free, digital cookbook.
The restaurant said it drew inspiration from its food donation program, Chick-Fil-A Shared Table. Since 2012, the fast-food chain has donated more than 23 million meals to local community partners, according to the release.
“The ‘Extra Helpings’ cookbook is ... a tool to help inspire meaningful change and honor nonprofit partners that are working to make a significant impact in their communities,” Marshall Wilkins, a Chick-fil-A owner-operator in Tennessee who helped start the Shared Table program, said in a statement.
“Together, we can address the root causes of both hunger and food waste,” he said.
This story was originally published October 17, 2023 at 1:00 PM with the headline "Love Chick-fil-A? Popular chain launches free cookbook featuring retired menu favorites."