Tag: casserole

French Onion Chicken Noodle Casserole

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Casseroles are a great option for larger families and for an easy meal. This recipe was made using packaged ingredients, so there isn’t anything you need to prepare beforehand, unless you would want to make something homemade, such as the chicken or the chicken soup. If you didn’t want to make this on the stove, you could mix the sauce ingredients together, and mix them with the noodles then bake all, covered for about 45 min. I just prefer to make things on the stove top. This recipe is very similar to my tuna noodle recipe as far as ingredients and steps. This recipe was very delicious the way I made it, but the only alteration I made was the addition of a veggie into the dish. If you were to add spinach, broccoli, or green beans, the dish would be a bit more balanced and have less of a heavy milk flavoring, and have a bit more light and healthy flavoring. This recipe makes 6 large adult sized servings.

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What You Will Need

  • Dutch Oven
  • Medium Sauce pan
  • Colander
  • Casserole Dish (if desired)
  • 12-16 oz Egg Noodles
  • 1 Can Cream of Chicken
  • 1/2 Pound of Cooked, Shredded Chicken (2 cans)
  • 1 1/2 Cup Milk
  • 1 Packet of French Onion Soup Mix
  • 1 1/2 Cup Sour Cream
  • Green Veggie of Choice (optional)

Directions

1. In a medium sauce pan, add 8 cups of water and bring to a boil. Once boiling, add your egg noodles and cook according to package. In a Dutch oven, add shredded chicken, cream of chicken, milk, french onion soup mix, and a green veggie. Heat over medium low stirring to make sure milk doesn’t burn or stick.

2. Once noodles are cooked, strain and add to the dutch oven. Cook together for a few minutes until everything is hot. Finally, add your sour cream. Stir and cook until sauce begins to bubble. Remove from heat and serve, or transfer to a casserole dish and bake at 350 F for 20-30 minutes.

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Potatoes, Eggs, Peppers and Onion, Breakfast Casserole

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This was my first attempt making a breakfast casserole. I really liked the flavor of the added peppers and onions, and it tasted great with some ketchup. I used mozzarella for this casserole, and it was somewhat boring. I would recommend a Jack cheese or a Sharp Cheddar cheese. This casserole could use some stronger flavor, so a semi-soft cheese that melts well with a strong flavor would be best. Because this casserole had a weak cheese, the casserole really need help with some ketchup. If you did want to use a lighter cheese, I would recommend adding some cooked breakfast sausage or diced ham. However adding the extra protein isn’t necessary if you don’t want. For this casserole, I used a 7×11 casserole dish, and I was able to get 8 adult sized servings. You could add a bit more of everything to use a 9×13, which would 10 servings if desired. The leftovers can be stored in the fridge, plated, and reheated for 1 minutes in the microwave.

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What You Will Need

  • 1/3 Bag of Frozen Peppers and Onions (or 1 fresh pepper and 1/2 onion sliced)
  • 4 Potatoes, Cleaned and Shredded
  • 5 Eggs, Beaten
  • 1/4 Cup Sour Cream
  • Mixing Bowl and Fork
  • 7 x 11 Casserole Dish
  • 2 Tbsp Butter
  • 1 1/2 Cup Shredded Cheese of your choice
  • Aluminum Foil

Directions

  1. Heat Oven to 350 F. Shred your potatoes and cover the bottom of your casserole dish. Thaw your peppers and onions in a microwave save bowl with the butter. Or, heat your butter in a frying pan over medium-low heat; Once melted, add your sliced veggies and cook until tender. Add your veggies to your potatoes, and mix. Then evenly spread mixture over the bottom of dish.

2. Crack your eggs into your mixing bowl, add your sour cream, and mix until the sour cream incorporates. Pour mixture evenly over shredded potatoes and veggies. Evenly cover with your shredded cheese.

3. Cover with Aluminum foil and bake for 30 minutes. Remove foil then bake for another 10 minutes or until the center is fully cooked at 160 F. Let cook 15 minutes before serving. Serve with ketchup or salsa.

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Cheesy Chicken Casserole

A couple of days ago, we had KFC for dinner and we had our wings and drumsticks left over. I wanted to use up our leftovers and also make something new. As a result, this casserole was born. If you don’t prefer spaghetti, you could use other noodles, such as egg noodles or bowtie pasta. I used vermicelli, but that’s just what I’ve always used. I break my pasta in half, but you can also beak it smaller for this casserole if you want an easier time serving. I used 3 pieces of chicken. I warmed them, de-boned, removed cartilage, then tore up and added the chicken and the skin. Other than that, I served my pasta casserole right away, however it was pretty messy with the big noodles. The leftovers were very easy to divide and serve. Absolutely delicious, and I plan to make this dish or a similar version again in the future. Also, since I used KFC chicken it had plenty of flavor. If you plan to make this with a very plain chicken, you should consider doubling the spice in the casserole to add more flavor.

  1. Bake one chicken breast till internal temperature of 165 F is reached. (Bake at 400 F for 30 minutes. You may also use a whole can of shredded chicken, or 3-4 pieces of fried chicken and skin.)
  2. Using a mixer, shred the chicken. Place 1 cup of shredded chicken to the side and preserve the rest.
  3. In a large sauce pan, bring water to a boil and cook 12 oz of spaghetti until al dente and strain.
  4. In a 3 qt casserole dish, add your shredded chicken (1 cup), 1 can of cream of chicken concentrate, 1/2 can of milk, 1 Tbsp garlic powder, 2 tsp paprika, and 1 tsp curry powder. Stir together.
  5. Heat oven to 400 F.
  6. Add spaghetti and stir together. Add 6 oz of your choice cheese. (I used 4 oz shredded mozzarella, 1 oz shredded white shape cheese, and 1 oz crumbled white American cheese.) Stir together until cheese is distributed.
  7. Top with even layer of parmasean, then bake for 20-25 minutes until golden. Serve right away, or refrigerate, cut, reheat, and serve.
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Chicken Nugget Casserole

Casseroles are always fun to me, but I like the variety of different textures and flavors. This dish has good variety and tastes like chicken parmasean and pasta. The chicken has it’s own flavor, the pasta has it’s own texture, the cheese adds a bit more savory flavor to the dish, and the dices tomatoes added more fresh flavor and additional texture. My chicken nuggets are always precooked, but your best bet would be to bake them early if you are nervous about them being cooked through, or you can bake for double the recommended time on your package. My nuggets said to bake for 15-20 minutes, so I baked them for 40. This dish created 4 1/2 adult sized meals.

  1. Heat a large pot of water to a boil. Once boiling, add 8 oz Farfalle, and boil for 10-15 minutes until al dents. Strain and place into a 7 x 10 casserole dish.
  2. Heat oven to 350 F.
  3. Add to the pasta 10-15 frozen chicken nuggets and mix. In a large sauce pan, add 1 jar of pasta sauce and 1 can of diced tomatoes. Heat until hot and bubbling.
  4. Pour hot sauce over your pasta. Cover with 1 1/2 cup mozzarella, then bake for 40 minutes. Let rest 10 minutes before eating.
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Quarantine Chicken Divan

This is a recipe I received from my mother-in-law several months ago. Josh grew up eating this dish and I’ve been able to make it for Josh a time or two according to the recipe. However, with this pandemic, I’m not able to get to the store as much as normal, and things with short shelf lives are used up very quickly in my house because I don’t want them going bad. So, things this recipe would usually call for, like sour cream, I didn’t have.

There are many things I did differently with this recipe, or should have done differently. First, I didn’t microwave my broccoli before baking. Though the broccoli did cook in the oven, there was water in the bottom of the casserole dish. Cooking and straining the broccoli would help this, you could also use fresh broccoli if you have some. I baked my chicken breast for 40 minutes since it was still half frozen. I took the internal temperature and it was up to 170 F, so though the juices from the chicken have some color, it isn’t dangerous, I also had to bake it again in the casserole, so even if there were under temperature spots, they would be cooked again in the casserole. I made a lot of alteration to the sauce. The recipe called for less mayo and sour cream. I don’t usually have sour cream on hand, and I also had no vanilla yogurt for that tangy flavor. So, I added in ranch for a bit of that dairy tang, and I really enjoyed the extra flavor from it. I didn’t realize the onion and garlic flavor would taste so good in this recipe! I also added lots more curry powder than original, and I added some cumin for even more flavor. The sour cream and curry powder made me think this recipe has an inspiration from Indian cuisine, so I added the cumin to add a bit more of the Indian spice without the heat. I also didn’t add all of the spice into the sauce mix like I should have. I tasted the sauce and it was lacking, so I gave the sauce a dusting of curry powder and cumin once it was already spread in the casserole dish. It’s an inconsistent way of measuring so it’s best to put it in the sauce and mix it in evenly. Then I shredded a block of sharp cheese. I keep them in the freezer because they tend to go bad in my fridge, and shredding frozen cheese is so much easier! I then grabbed a loaf of homemade bread I made last week, crumbled it over the top of the casserole, then sprinkled it with the standard stuffing herbs, sage and thyme. I dusted very lightly over the top, because you don’t want too much stuffing flavor, you want more of the Indian spice flavor. This dish made 6 serving for us.

  1. Bake a 1 lb chicken breast at 400 F for 30-40 minutes until an internal temperature over 165 F is reached. Spray an 9 x 13 casserole dish with non-stick spray.
  2. Grab a 12 oz bag of frozen broccoli and microwave it as directed. Strain any excess water from your broccoli and make one even layer in your casserole dish.
  3. Let your baked chicken cool for 5 minutes, transfer into a large bowl and shred the chicken using a hand or stand mixer. Evenly spread the shredded chicken over the broccoli.
  4. In a medium sized bowl, mix together 3/4 cup mayo, 1 can of condensed cream of chicken soup, 3 Tbsp ranch dressing, 3 tsp of curry powder, and 2 tsp cumin. Stir until mixed, then spread in an even layer over the shredded chicken.
  5. Reduce oven to 375 F
  6. Shred 8 oz of sharp cheese and spread evenly over sauce. Cube about 2 cups of bread (use stale bread if you have any) and spread evenly over your cheese layer. Sprinkle over the top a dusting of sage and thyme.
  7. Bake for 30 minutes. Let cool for 5 minutes before serving.
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