Healthy Chicken Broccoli Casserole Recipe

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No one loves a very good casserole recipe greater than a mother. From her perspective, it’s a whole meal, loaded with veggies, and baked multi function dish. It’s simple for serving and cleanup and could be made prematurely. And as an added bonus, the recipe can normally be doubled and half of it frozen for an additional meal!

Besides this tacky hen broccoli casserole, my household’s favourite casserole is my candy potato shepherd’s pie. Both are wonderful and straightforward to make on a busy day.

Easy Cheesy Chicken Broccoli Casserole

It’s best to make this recipe with pre-cooked hen. I steadily cook dinner further hen on weekends or once I’m making some for an additional recipe in order that I’ve some able to go once I’m brief on time. However, you possibly can completely begin with uncooked hen and bake it within the oven or cube it after which saute it in a skillet.

I additionally like to make use of frozen veggies, once more to save lots of on time and prep work. But go forward and use recent ones if you happen to’d like. I sometimes use broccoli and cauliflower as a result of they’re simple to seek out and my household likes them, however you would additionally use frozen carrots.

Delegate It to the Kids!

I like to let my youngsters assist cook dinner at any time when attainable. Letting the children assist cook dinner is among the methods I assist them study to like all kinds of meals. It’s additionally a very smart way to assist keep away from creating choosy eaters.

Years in the past I enrolled them in a web-based cooking faculty. They realized the fundamentals of recipe studying, measuring, and knife security and liked it. We even have a crinkle cutter with a picket deal with. It’s an incredible device for letting little fingers assist with chopping and grating.

Now that they’re older I’m reaping the rewards of the sooner challenges of educating the children to cook dinner. My youngsters are literally an amazing assist many nights and may even cook dinner a number of meals on their very own. The messes and spills we cleaned up by letting them “help” after they had been youthful have paid dividends.

Chicken Broccoli Casserole Recipe

Katie Wells

Delicious hen and broccoli casserole with optionally available bitter cream, cheese, and spices.

Prep Time 20 minutes

Cook Time 30 minutes

Total Time 50 minutes

Course Main

Cuisine American

Servings 6 servings

Calories 356 kcal

Ingredients  

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• 4 hen breasts (cooked)
• 4 TBSP butter (cubed)
• 1 bag frozen broccoli (or 1 head recent)
• 1 bag frozen cauliflower (or 1 head recent)
• 1 medium onion (diced)
• 2 cups cheddar cheese (shredded, optionally available)
• ⅔ cup bitter cream (optionally available)
• ¼ cup water
• 1 tsp basil
• 1 tsp garlic powder
• 1 tsp salt
• ½ tsp pepper
• ¼ cup Parmesan cheese (optionally available)

Instructions 

• Preheat the oven to 375°F.

• If not utilizing pre-cooked hen, bake hen till cooked or cube and sauté in a skillet.

• Place the butter within the backside of a 9×13 baking dish. 

• Add the broccoli, cauliflower, and diced onion.

• Cook within the oven for 20-25 minutes or till heated and principally cooked.

• While the greens are heating, chop the hen into chew sized items and grate the cheese if obligatory.

• Remove the greens from oven.

• Add the chopped hen, cheddar cheese, bitter cream, spices, and ¼ cup water to the greens and blend effectively.

• Top with Parmesan if desired and return the baking dish to the oven.

• Contiunue cooking till the cheese is melted and every thing is heated by.

Notes

The time-frame listed for this recipe applies to make use of of pre-cooked hen and diced frozen greens. 
Make and further batch and freeze it for a simple meal one other time!

Nutrition

Calories: 356kcalCarbohydrates: 9.7gProtein: 18.5gFat: 28gSaturated Fat: 17.6gCholesterol: 85mgSodium: 812mgFiber: 2.9gSugar: 3g

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