King Ranch Chicken casserole

This easy oven bake has Tex-Mex flavours and is great for using up leftover BBQ chicken. A bit like a lasagne but a lot easier to make, it's a dinner that the kids will lap up.

Ingredients

  • 3 cups bbq chicken meat

    shredded

  • to taste ground pepper

  • 8 corn tortillas

  • 1 cup onion

    chopped

  • 1 diced tomatoes

  • 1 jalapeno chilli

    sliced lengthwise in half and seeds removed

  • 1 long red chilli

    sliced lengthwise in half and seeds removed

  • 1 tbsp Cream of Mushroom soup

  • 1 cup chicken stock

  • 2 cups tasty cheese

    grated

  • coriander

    to serve

  • sour cream

    to serve

  • 1 butter

Allergy Advice

Contains Dairy

Contains Gluten

Contains Soy

Equipment

  • 1 lasagne dish (approx. 20cm x 30cm x 5cm deep)
  • 1 heavy based frying pan
  • 1 saucepan
  • 1 baking sheet

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease a lasagne dish, (approx. 20cm x 30cm x 5cm deep) with butter and set aside.
  2. Bring a heavy based frying pan to a medium heat and lay the chillies directly on the pan skin-side down until the skins blister and then flip over. Cook another few minutes until slightly blackened.
  3. Remove chillies, chop up and add to a saucepan with tinned tomatoes, mushroom soup and stock. Warm this mixture and set aside.
  4. Layer the chicken meat in the prepared dish, followed by a scattering of the onion, then a few whole tortillas, tomato mixture, and a handful of cheese.
  5. Continue the layers until you run out of chicken. Finish with a layer of tortillas, tomato mixture and then cheese.
  6. Place dish on a baking sheet and put it into the oven for 30 minutes until golden and bubbling.
  7. Remove from the oven and allow to rest for 10 minutes. Serve with fresh coriander and sour cream.

Notes

Tip
This a very Texan dish, and it only just hit me that it’s a direct copy of lasagne but with a tex-mex touch – enjoy!
Tip
I prefer to make my own cream of mushroom soup using regular button mushrooms but that’s another recipe, coming soon!

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