Showing posts with label chicken dishes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chicken dishes. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Chicken spaghetti

Ingredients
•4 cups cubed cooked chicken
•2 cans (10-3/4 ounces each) condensed cream of mushroom soup, undiluted
•2-1/2 cups chicken broth
•1 medium green pepper, chopped
•1 medium onion, chopped
•2 celery ribs, chopped
•2 tablespoons dried parsley flakes
•1/2 teaspoon salt
•1/2 teaspoon pepper
•1 pound process cheese (Velveeta), cubed
•1 package (12 ounces) spaghetti, cooked and drained
•1 can (2-1/4 ounces) sliced ripe olives, optional
Directions
•In a soup kettle or Dutch oven, combine the first nine ingredients. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 15-20 minutes. Stir in cheese until melted. Add the spaghetti and olives if desired.
•Transfer to two greased 11-in. x 7-in. baking dishes. Cover and freeze one casserole for up to 3 months. Cover and bake the second casserole at 325° for 40 minutes. Uncover and bake 10 minutes longer.
•To use the frozen casserole: Thaw in the refrigerator for 24 hours. Bake as directed. Yield: 2 casseroles (5 servings each).




Nutritional Facts
1 serving (1 each) equals 421 calories, 17 g fat (9 g saturated fat), 80 mg cholesterol, 1,163 mg sodium, 34 g carbohydrate, 2 g fiber, 31 g protein.

source: http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/Chicken-Spaghetti-2

I am planning on making my own version of this for supper. Some changes I will make are this. I don't buy cream of soups because its so easy to make a white sauce or roux and flavor it with herb or canned mushrooms. I also will not be using Velveeta, instead I will use shredded cheddar. I also don't have any olives on hand so I will just leave those out.

Edited to add: To make this dish I made about 4 cups of white sauce to which I added about 1 teaspoon chicken bouillon powder, 1/2 t. garlic salt, 1 small can mushrooms drained, salt and pepper and one jar of home canned chicken which I broke into small pieces and the juice from the canned chicken. I then added about one cup of cheese which was a mixture of mozzarella and cheddar.

In another pot I boiled water and cooked some spaghetti. I then drained the spaghetti and mixed the white sauce and spaghetti together. I then put the mixture in a baking pan and topped with cheese and warmed this in the oven. When the cheese was nicely browned I removed the casserole from the oven. This casserole was quite good and the approximate cost was less than $6.00 because the chicken I canned was either 77 or 88 cents a pound.

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Chicken tacos in the crock pot

‎4 frozen chicken breast (I will use my home canned chicken)
one can of favorite salsa (strain so it's not watery).
The kind with corn makes it a little heartier.
Leave in crock all day, then shred, add a pint of sour cream and serve with refried beans, tortilla chips, tortillas, whatever. Sooo good.

Crock pot chicken taco dinner

Chicken Taco Dinner
3 or 4 frozen chicken breast peices ( I will be using my home canned chicken so I wont cook it as long as the recipe suggests)
2 cans of rotel (I use mexican)
2 packets of Taco seasoning
Cook all day. Before serving shred in crockpot.
Can use hard or soft tacos and add whatever you like for taco fixings