Crack Chicken and Rice Casserole Recipe
Dinner doesn't get much better than this delicious comfort food casserole! It's packed with carrots, green pepper and onion and uses easy ingredients like leftover rotisserie chicken, rice a roni and cream of chicken soup!
Crack Chicken and Rice Casserole
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Casseroles are the ultimate comfort food. They remind me so much of my childhood.
Growing up in Minnesota, we often referred to them as hotdish. This term is still popular here in the midwest and means a dish baked in one pan, served hot.
Makes complete sense to me. Let's just keep it simple, right? I'll share some of my favorite hotdish and casserole recipes below, but for now, let's chat about today's recipe.
The name of this recipe is very fitting. Once you take a bite, you'll want more and more.
I invited a friend of mine over for dinner, she loved it and took leftovers home with her. I also brought leftovers to work, and my co-worker went crazy and wanted to go home and make it for her family right away.
I'm not usually a fan of using cream soups and boxed meals, but sometimes, for comfort foods sake, you just have to use them.
This recipe takes less than an hour from start to finish, making it totally doable for a weeknight dinner, especially if you use leftover rotisserie chicken.
The leftovers are just as good too making it great for lunch throughout the week!
It's so easy to make it different, but still the same simple recipe. We also love trying different flavors of rice a roni instead of chicken.
I love that this recipe is affordable too! We buy our rotisserie chicken at Sam's Club, and use it for different recipes all the time.
Other casserole and hotdish recipes you may like:
- Pizza Tater Tot Hotdish
- Cheesy Mushroom Marsala Pasta Casserole
- Best Chicken Spaghetti Casserole
- Minnesota Wild Rice Hotdish
- Amish Country Casserole
- Grandma's Chicken Broccoli Casserole
This recipe is ready in these easy steps
- Preheat the oven
- Prepare the rice a roni as directed on the package
- Add veggies within the last 5 minutes of cooking
- Then add the cream soup, sour cream, chicken and black pepper
- Spread in the baking dish and smother with all the delicious cheese
- Bake
- Wait anxiously for the casserole to come out of the oven
- Devour!
Full recipe below
You can add or substitute with the following ingredients:
- any flavor cream soup
- pepper jack cheese
- swiss cheese
- frozen or fresh broccoli
- cooked turkey
- peas
- minced garlic
- top with French's Onions
- any flavor rice a roni
- top with crushed garlic croutons
- celery
- corn
- fresh chopped parsley
Looking for more recipes using rotisserie chicken?
- Chicken Mushroom and Cabbage Soup
- Rotisserie Chicken Noodle Soup
- Creamy Dill Chicken Salad
- Grand Casino MN Chicken Wild Rice Soup
- Easy Chicken Burritos
- Baked Cheddar and BBQ Chicken Taquitos
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I hope you enjoy this recipe as much as we did!
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Crack Chicken and Rice Casserole
Yield: 6 servings
ingredients:
- 1- 6.9 ounce box chicken rice a roni or any boxed rice and pasta mix
- 1 cup carrots, thinly sliced
- 1/2 cup green pepper, chopped
- 1/2 cup onion, finely diced
- 1- 10.5 ounce can cream of chicken soup
- 1 cup sour cream
- 2 cups cooked chicken breast, chopped
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/2 cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese
instructions:
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9x13 baking dish.
- Cook the rice a roni according to package directions, adding the carrots, green pepper and onion in the last 5 minutes of cooking.
- Stir in the cream soup, sour cream, chicken breast and black pepper. Remove from heat.
- Spread the rice mixture evenly in the baking dish. Cover with cheese.
- Bake uncovered for 30 minutes then serve!
What readers are saying about this recipe:
Stefani- Tasty! I added ranch seasoning and bacon
Adriana- Second time making! Gets better every time!
Jenni- Third time in two months I have made this heavenly meal! So easy and delicious!
Heather- This is YUMMERS!!! We ate it with salad and a delicious glass of white wine!
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