Creamy Chicken Broccoli Pasta Casserole
Creamy Chicken Broccoli Pasta Casserole recipe with sauté mushroom and bacon. Easy baked dish with cheddar cheese and herbs and spices.
Creamy Chicken Broccoli Pasta Casserole
A delicious meal to bake for a lunch or supper. Use left over chicken or whole barbecued chicken shredded for this dish. Spice the Creamy Chicken Broccoli Pasta Casserole dish up with garlic and bacon and some veggies such as broccoli. Oven Baked Casserole dish recipe for a family meal. A creamy cheddar cheese sauce and penne pasta all tossed together and baked with cheese topping. Sprinkling some parsley herbs on top, baking until golden brown. Serving for a family meal of 4 with a salad of choice. Delicious food to serve for any meal, week days or other. Freezers well for a make ahead meal.
What do you serve with chicken broccoli casserole?
- dinner rolls
- side dishes, salad
- vegetables
Can I substitute frozen broccoli for fresh in a casserole?
You can use fresh or frozen broccoli for the casserole. Fresh broccoli takes longer to cook than frozen, and it also depends on the size of your cut broccoli for the time that is needed to cook. If you prefer softer broccoli then let it cook a little longer.
Do I need to cook broccoli before putting it in a casserole?
Cooking your broccoli before adding it to your casserole will cause it to come out mushy. It is recommended to blanch the fresh broccoli first, then add it to the casserole.
Can you put raw meat in casserole?
You can use raw chicken in a casserole, it will just take longer to cook. Then you will leave out the extra vegetables like broccoli carrots and peas and so on, as they would become mush and not nice and tasty. Some recipes use left overs and some raw meats. It is just the length of the cooking time needed for either of these options.
Can Chicken pasta Bake be frozen?
You can freeze individual portions up to 3 months. To reheat, defrost in the microwave for 6-7 minutes or reheat in a 350 F oven for 20-30 minutes.
Ingredients
- Penna pasta (or use spaghetti or Togliatti pasta )
- butter (or olive oil)
- mushrooms cut into slices. (button mushrooms)
- garlic minced finely.
- Bacon cut into bits
- flour ( cornstarch or maizena)
- milk, cream
- grated cheddar cheese
- shredded cooked chicken (or cook chicken and shred it)
- broccoli (cut into small florets)
- cherry tomatoes.
- Parsley dried
- Salt and pepper
The amounts for the ingredients and the instructions are in the recipe attached.
Cooked shredded chicken
Bacon cut into bits
Clove of garlic finely cut
Button mushrooms cut
Penne pasta
small broccoli florets
Then there is also the cherry tomato´s for color and the cheddar cheese with milk and cream and herbs and spices.
How To
Sauté the mushrooms, bacon and broccoli and garlic. Boiling the pasta. Then adding the milk cream mixture with flour or cornflower and some of the cheese, to thicken the sauce, in the pan. Finely adding all the cooked ingredients into a greased baking dish and mixing together all three ingredients. (pasta chicken and sauce) topping with cheese and herbs. Baking at 175 Deg. C until brown and baked.
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Makes a delicious meal for lunch or dinner or supper. All in one dish, with vegetables. This creamy chicken pasta casserole is a great dish to make ahead and freeze for meals.
An Idea of what to serve with pasta casserole is.
I depends if you adding vegetables or not in the bake. Use side dishes with potato or rice, even other vegetables and even salads will be great.
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- Garlic Bread.
- Bread, Dinner Rolls, or Cornbread.
- Roasted Vegetables. ( Roasted Turmeric Cauliflower Steaks with Cheese )
- Roasted Sweet Potatoes Or Butternut Squash. (Foiled Sweet Potato on Coals)
- Steamed Vegetables.
- Potato Wedges.
- Roasted Brussels Sprouts. (Easy Roasted Brussel Sprouts,)
- Baked Beans.
Eating with out these sides is fine as there is vegetables in this casserole.
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PrintCreamy Chicken Broccoli Pasta Casserole
Creamy Chicken Broccoli Pasta Casserole recipe with sauté mushroom and bacon. Easy baked dish with cheddar cheese and herbs and spices.
- Prep Time: 15 min
- Cook Time: 40 min
- Total Time: 55 min
- Yield: 4
- Category: Meals, supper or lunch, dinner
- Method: oven baked
Ingredients
- 8 oz (260 g) Penna pasta (or use spaghetti or Togliatti pasta )
- 3 Tablespoons of butter (or olive oil)
- 4 oz (110 g )of mushrooms cut into slices. (button mushrooms)
- 1 clove of garlic minced finely.
- 100 g Bacon cut into bits
- 2 Tablespoons of flour ( cornstarch or mazena)
- 7 cup of milk1/2 cup of cream
- 3 cups of grated cheddar cheese
- 2 cups of shredded cooked chicken (or cook chicken and shred it)
- 1 cup of broccoli sauté for 3 minutes (cut into small florets)
- 1/2 cup of cut cherry tomatoes.
- Parsley dried
- Salt and pepper
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 175 Deg . C (350 Deg. F)
- Clean and cut or chop ingredients needed. Shred the cooked or left over chicken.
- In a medium pot add the water and salt and bring to boil the pasta. Boil for 8 – 12 minutes. Drain in a colander. (at least 2 minutes less than the normal boiling period as you will still bake this pasta)
- In a medium sauce pan add butter or olive oil and fry the bacon bits and mushrooms with the broccoli for about 3 minutes tossing to cook all sides. Adding the garlic just before done. In a bowl mix the flour and milk and cream then add into the sauté ingredients in the pan and bring to simmer, stirring in well. Add only 2 cups of the cheddar cheese into this mixture and melt it. The mixture should be all smooth.
- Grease a casserole dish and fill the dish with the pasta and shredded chicken and cream of mushroom and bacon sauce, with broccoli and add the cut cherry tomato. Mix all together well. Sprinkle the 1 cup of cheddar cheese on top of the casserole mixture and sprinkle some parsley over the cheese.
- Bake for 30 – 40 minutes at 175 Deg. C until golden brown and cooked. (should bubble or if you have a clear Pyrex bowl you will see on the side that the liquid has thickened)
- Serve with a salad for a tasty meal.
Notes
Use spaghetti or any other pasta of choice.
Also change up the vegetables or use any left over ingredients.
