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
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!
We also love adding other vegetables and switching it up depending on what's in the fridge or freezer.
Substitute peas for carrots, add some garlic, celery for the green pepper etc!
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.
