Italian Cream Cheese Chicken Casserole
We love this casserole around here, and it’s such a fabulous comfort food for these cool fall days! I’ve made a few variations of it and we’ve enjoyed each one.
Donielle’s Italian Cream Cheese Chicken Casserole
2 Tbsp butter
2 Tbsp flour or cornstarch
3 cups chicken broth
8 oz cream cheese
1 Tbsp Italian Dressing Mix
1/2 Tbsp dried minced onion
1/2 Tbsp dried minced garlic
1-2 cooked and cubed chicken breasts
1 box of rotini pasta (we use brown rice)
1/2 head of steamed broccoli or about 1/2 bag of frozen broccoli
Cook pasta until al dente or slightly firm. (if you’re freezing this undercook it) Melt the butter over medium heat and whisk in the flour or cornstarch (cornstarch for you gluten free folks) to make a rue. Once mixed together well, add the broth in slowly while whisking. Once at a gentle boil, whisk occasioanlly and simmer for 5 minutes until thickened. Add in cream cheese and all the seasonings. Mix well and taste. If you like more seasoning, add it now. Let simmer for a few minutes while you grease a 9×13 pan and dump the pasta, chicken, and broccoli into it. Pour cream cheese mixture over everything and bake at 350 degrees for about 20 minutes. Take out, stir, and enjoy!
Both my husband and 3yo LOVE this dish. My little one kept telling me after every bite how yummy delicious it was, so it’s a huge hit around here! I barely even had enough for leftovers to send lunch to work with Todd this morning.
Variations we like:
- Use 4 cups of cooked rice instead of the pasta
- For an extra creamy version you can use milk in place of all but 1 cup of broth
- You can also use 2 cups of cream of chicken soup for the broth as well
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Oh yum! This looks soooo good. I am putting it on the menu next week for sure!
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Ooooo YUMMY!!! And just in time for when I go grocery shopping tomorrow!!!!
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This looks yummy! It will be on next month’s menu!
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This looks DELICIOUS!
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I’m really excited about having this for dinner tonight! I taste-tested it when I did my freezer cooking Saturday and the sauce was sure yummy!!
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Sounds really good- I am sure that my family will like this! I better give it a try quickly before we get on the GAPS diet and it becomes a temporary no-no!
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donielle Reply:
March 1st, 2010 at 10:24 am
@Stephanie @ Keeper of the Home, Ha! I can’t wait to hear about your GAPS journey. This next month or so I’m trying to replace some our our non GAPS foods to GAPS approved foods since some of them I haven’t made before. I figure this way, we can ease into it a bit.
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