Friday, April 1, 2011

Chicken, Rice, Broccoli Casserole

So I tried this new casserole the other night and I thought I would share it because it was really easy and not too shabby shab.

This is what you'll need:
*4 Cups cooked, cubed/diced chicken. (I used 2 large chicken breasts, 2 small chicken breasts and it seemed to yield about 2 cups. I was too lazy to make more, but that seemed plenty for the casserole so I guess its up to you)
*2 cans cream of mushroom soup
*3 cups chicken broth
*2 cups minute rice-uncooked
*3 cups frozen broccoli florets, uncooked. (I looove broccoli, so next time I am putting more than 3 cups in, it would make it that much better)
*1-6oz box of turkey stuffing mix
*1 cup butter or marg. melted.

Preheat oven to 425.

Spray 9x13 pan, and line with cooked cubed chicken.

In bowl, whisk cream of mushroom soup until clumps are gone. Slowly add chicken broth. Mix in uncooked rice and frozen broccoli.
This picture is before adding the rice and broccoli, but just know that when you add the 3 cups of chicken broth to the soup, it is super super runny.

Pour mixture over chicken in 9x13 pan.


Top with unprepared turkey stuffing mix. Pour melted butter over entire top of casserole. Cover and cook for 30min or until rice is fluffy.


Now, next time I make it I'm going to do a couple things differently. For one, the one cup of butter poured on top of the entire casserole before being cooked is A LOT of butter. When using the 3 cups of chicken broth, the container (which was 32oz) had about a cup left. Maybe I would only use a half cup of butter, and use the rest of the chicken broth to pour on top of the stuffing mix. Also, I am not a huge fan of stuffing so I was thinking next time I may just crumble up ritz crackers, and sprinkle some cheese on top of that? Cody said it was like Thanksgiving in a hotdish, he really liked it..I liked it as well..but like I said I'm not a huge fan of stuffing and that is a big part of the dish.

1 comment:

Nikki* said...

Thanks for sharing this! It sounds SO good! I'll have to try it for dinner sometime this week :)