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Holy Cow.
It’s Monday.
Which means a whole new week is stretching itself right out in front of our very eyes, ladies and gentlemen. That’s kind of how Monday works, just in case you have forgotten, it has been a week since it happened last. I thought I would clarify, for those of you with short term memory problems.
You are most welcome.
This past weekend MyHandsomeHusband and I went to see Wicked for the very first time in our entire lives. It was spectacular layered on top of spectacular, and I have to tell you that I am very seriously considering spray painting myself green this morning, just to see if I can magically grow vocal chords as powerfully fabulous as Miss Elphaba, and of course in hopes that I might somehow learn how to Defy Gravity.
I’ll let you know how it turns out. Keep your fingers crossed for me, won’t you?
Everyone wants to Defy Gravity, you know. 🙂
1. Find yourself two boxes of Rice a Roni Long Grain and Wild Rice. Spray a 9×13 pan with cooking spray and pour the contents of the boxes into the pan. (Not the seasoning packet, please).
2. Pour 1 cup of white rice into the pan.
Add 1/2 cup chopped onion,
2 cans of cream of chicken soup
and 2 cups of milk.
3. Pour yourself 2 cups of warm water. Open up both of the seasoning packets (from the Rice a Roni boxes) and pour them into the water.
Give it a nice stir with a fork.
4. Pour the broth-ie water mixture into the pan.
5. Add 1 1/2 cups of shredded cheddar cheese, 1/4 teaspoon salt, 1/8 teaspoon cracked pepper and 2 tablespoons of melted butter.
6. Mix things up with your handy fork. Be sure you break up the cream of chicken soup and that all of the ingredients become well combined.
7. Take a nice pair of kitchen scissors and cut up three chicken breasts into chunks. Add them to the pan.
8. Sprinkle 1/2 cup of shredded cheddar cheese over the top of the chicken, cover the pan with tin foil and bake at 400 degrees for 1 hour. Remove the tin foil and bake for 30 minutes more.
Serve and enjoy!
Here’s the handy printable…
Ingredients
Instructions
Recipe from Jamie Cooks It Up!
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I love this recipe, it comes together so fast it really is a life saver on days I don’t want to cook and still have time. I’m in love with wild rice and would love more recipes with it if you have any, besides your soup which is my other FAVORITE! You are the best Jamie!
Love this! Even my kids and husband went for seconds and thirds!!! The only instruction I would add would be to cook the cream of chicken soup and milk together, then dump it in the pan so it’ll mix easier. Awesome and easy otherwise!!
I can’t find short grain white rice. I looked in 2 different stores does it have a special name. Sorry may sound like a dumb question but even the store clerk had never heard of it.
Look for Bob’s Red Mill in the organic section of the store.
Can I use a rice with the seasoning already mixed in?
Hi Jennifer,
Thanks for your question. I’m not sure how that would work, as I haven’t tested it with that particular ingredient. The seasonings might be too much or too little to give the casserole the best flavor. Sorry, I’m not much help on this one!
Best,
~Jamie
Hi Jamie!
Made this dish for a MOPS mtg. It was a hit! I’ve been trying to make simple dinners for our Moms of lil ones. They seem to always have their hands full! Go figure.
Making it again for my family’s dinner…same day as the MOPS mtg. Lol. Its so easy!
Thx for letting us in on yr recipes!
I have made this a couple of times and it’s so good! The first time I made it per the instructions and it had too much liquid in it, and overflowed when I tried to mix it all. So the second time I just reduced the amount of water to 1 cup and it was fine.
What happened to the recipe? I’ve been using this recipe a lot, now I can’t get to it. What happened?
I need the cheesy chicken & rice recipe.