Name: Family Sized Mexican Chicken Casserole
Cook time: 1 h
Ingredients: 2 cup chicken, cooked and diced; 2 cup Monterey Jack, shredded; 1 cup chopped green chilies, canned; 2/3 cup sour cream; 2/3 can cream of chicken soup; 1/2 cup salsa; 8 corn tortillas; 1 cup cheddar cheese, grated

Family Sized Mexican Chicken Casserole

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Chicken casserole recipes can be a little overwhelming, but this one is just right. Family-Sized Mexican Chicken Casserole is a great option for a small group. You may not have left overs, so be prepared to make this dish all the time!

Notes

This recipe makes enough for 1 casserole. For a recipe that makes 7 casseroles, try Grandma's Favorite Mexican Chicken Casserole.

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Cooking Time1 hr

Cooking MethodCasserole, Slow Cooker

Ingredients

2 cups chicken, cooked and diced
2 cups Monterey Jack, shredded
1 cup chopped green chilies, canned
2/3 cup sour cream
2/3 can cream of chicken soup
1/2 cup salsa
8 corn tortillas
1 cup cheddar cheese, grated

Instructions

In a large bowl, mix chicken, jack cheese, chilis, sour cream, soup, and salsa.
In a 5 quart round container layer the tortillas with the mixture. Use 1 tortilla, then 1 generous cup of mixture, then tortilla; and press down. Repeat till the mixture is gone, ending with tortillas.
Put the cheddar on top of the casserole.
At serving time, pop the casserole out of the container, place in an oven-proof casserole dish, top with the grated cheddar, and bake at 375 for 45-60 minutes, till hot and bubbly throughout. Or, you may place in a slow cooker.

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LLJbeanies 3686878

Apr 30, 2012

What kind of 5-quart round container is the recipe referring to? There are all kinds. Then when baking, is the stack put into the oven as a stack, or separated into separate piles for baking? It sounds like the whole thing is baked piled up in which case it's impossible to put cheese on top of each serving when baking.

dj56francis 584706 5

Jan 28, 2014

Use your brain, its written simply enough....use a container that the tortilla fits in and layer according to the recipe. And you don't put cheese in each layer after its put together, duh!, the jack cheese is mixed with the chicken, etc. After adding the last layer of tortillas when you are ready to bake the casserole and invert it into a casserole dish, most appropriately shaped one, then add the grated cheddar cheese on top and bake.

momofASK

Mar 25, 2012

Honestly - I like most of the recipes on this site, however, the editing is very poor. Almost every recipe I see, there are glaring errors. In this recipe (#4) says "At serving time, . . . . . bake at 375 for 45-60 minutes." That doesn't sound like serving time to me.

dj56francis 584706 5

Jan 28, 2014

momofASK---I agree with you! And its not just this recipe site :(. I don't understand why would you put the ingredients in a round container and THEN put it in a casserole dish to bake? Especially when there are no directions to put it in the freezer or oven! How do you 'pop' something out of a container that would surely fall apart and make a huge mess? Very poorly written.

L Graham

Aug 07, 2011

My mom made a variation of this recipe when I was growing up. She would tear the tortillas in half and in half again for her layers; instead of chicken, she used browned ground beef and added minced raw onion to the ingredients. Instead of mixing the other ingredients, she layered them as well, beginning with the tortillas, followed by the ground beef, then the onions, then the salsa, then the cheese - ending with cheese sprinkled on top of the stack. THEN she'd loosen the stack from the sides of the baking dish and pour a can of cream of chicken soup over the top, ensuring that it drizzled down the sides. About 15 minutes before the end of the baking time, she's sprinkle more cheese on topto melt.

MsEditor

Dec 14, 2010

Mandigirl: Very perceptive comment. This recipe has been sized down from a larger recipe. Thank you for pointing out an instruction item that was unclear. It has now been corrected. Thanks for the catch! Sometimes our readers are our best editors. Please feel free to comment in the future! Thanks! Blair, editor at RecipeLion.com

Mandigirl

Dec 14, 2010

The ingredients in this casserole have been sized down for a family (from the Grandma's Favorite Mexican Chicken Casserole), but the instructions have not been corrected. This is sure to be confusing to people. For instance, you are not going to be dividing the cheese into 7 portions! These instructions need to e fixed.