Chicken Broccoli and Cheese Casserole

On the menu tonight – Chicken Broccoli and Cheese Casserole!

If you are looking for a relatively quick meal to put together for your family or party, this one is for you!

For the chicken, you can use a rotisserie chicken (one of my favorite shortcuts!), and for the broccoli, you can use either frozen or quickly blanch a few broccoli heads. This dish also calls for a cup of rice. This is the perfect application for microwave rice as it’s going to get mixed in with all the other ingredients. If you haven’t seen it, microwave rice comes in 8.5 oz packets. To prepare it, you break up the rice in the packet, then tear open a little bit of each side of the top to allow steam to escape during cooking. Microwave for 90 seconds and you’ve got the rice you need! There are several different flavors, so depending on what you’re making, they probably have the type / flavor of rice you need.

Aside from chopping the rotisserie chicken and broccoli in to bite-sized pieces, there isn’t much else to do other than put it all in a 13×9 casserole dish.

The next time you need dinner in a hurry, try my Chicken Broccoli and Cheese Casserole!

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Chicken Broccoli and Cheese Casserole

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Chicken Broccoli and Cheese Casserole

Ingredients

• 1 Rotisserie chicken - deskinned, deboned, and chopped in to bite-sized pieces
• 2-3 broccoli heads (about 20 oz), chopped in to bite-sized pieces (use or don't use the stems, it depends if I feel like chopping the stems down to size)
• 1 sleeve of Ritz crackers, smashed
• 1 stick of butter, melted
• 1 can cream of mushroom soup
• dried onions, the kind you would use for green bean casserole
• 1 cup (approximately) of Parmesan cheese
• 1 cup white rice, recommend microwave rice
• 1/2 lb of Velveeta cheese, sliced

Instructions

1

Pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees

2

Chop the rotisserie chicken

3

In a large pot, filled about 1/2-3/4, and bring to a boil

4

While the water heats up, prepare the broccoli (if using fresh)

5

Put the Ritz crackers in a large ziplock bag and smash them into very small pieces

6

Cook the microwave rice per package instructions (about 90 seconds)

7

Spray the casserole dish with non-stick spray or coat with butter

8

Blanch the broccoli for about a minute to 90 seconds

9

Remove the broccoli from the pot and put in the casserole dish

10

Add the chopped chicken and about half the Parmesan cheese along with the cooked rice

11

In a large mixing bowl, combine the crushed crackers with the melted butter

12

Add about half of the butter/cracker mixture to the casserole dish

13

Mix all the ingredients in the casserole dish to combine

14

Top the mixture with the cheese slices and the rest of the butter/cracker mixture

15

Bake for 40 minutes, uncovered

16

Serve and enjoy!