King Ranch Casserole Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°F
• In large saucepan, saute the onion and pepper in the butter until tender (about 5 minutes).
• Add soups, tomatoes, and broth.
• Stir to combine.
• Fold in the chicken until well blended.
• Lightly grease a 9 x 13" baking dish.
• Layer with 1/3 the tortillas, 1/3 the chicken mixture, and 1/3 the cheese.
• Repeat layers twice more.
• Bake for 40 minutes or until hot and bubbly.
• About ten minutes before removing from the oven, sprinkle shredded cheese over the top; replace in oven until cheese is melted.
• Remove from oven and let stand 10 minutes before serving.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Heat oil in a large skillet over high heat. Saute onion, red bell pepper, and green bell pepper in hot oil until warmed through, about 2 minutes.
• Combine onion-pepper mixture, cream of mushroom soup, cream of chicken soup, diced tomatoes, chicken broth, sour cream, cumin, ancho chile powder, oregano, and chipotle chile powder together in a large bowl and stir until sauce is well-combined.
• Spread a few tablespoons of the sauce in the bottom of a 9x13-inch baking dish. Spread 1/2 the chicken over the sauce. Spread about half the sauce over the chicken and top with 1/3 the cheese. Spread a layer of tortillas over the cheese. Spread remaining 1/2 the chicken over the tortillas, and top with almost all of the remaining sauce, reserving 1/2 cup sauce. Top with 1/3 the cheese, remaining tortillas, the reserved 1/2 cup sauce, and remaining 1/3 cheese.
• Bake casserole in the preheated oven until bubbling, about 40 minutes. Increase the oven temperature to broil. Broil the casserole until top is golden, 2 to 3 minutes more.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Butter a 9-by-13-inch baking dish.
• Make the soup/tomato mixture, which is very bizarre and might scare you off. But please: Be brave and stick with me through this challenging time. You won't be sorry! In a large bowl, combine the soups and diced tomatoes and chiles. Add the chili powder, cumin, salt, pepper and chicken broth. Then--this is the time to be strong--stir it all together. Trust me!
• Line the bottom of the baking dish with half of the torn tortillas. Layer on half the chicken. Add half the onion, bell pepper and jalapeno. Sprinkle on half the cheese and pour on half the wacky soup mixture. Then repeat the layers, beginning with the rest of the tortillas, and ending with the rest of the you-know-what.
• Cover with foil and bake for 45 minutes, then uncover and bake until bubbling, another 15 minutes.
• Look at that! Serve it with a salad and a dang hearty appetite.
• To make ahead and freeze: Fold foil over the unbaked casserole and freeze until solid. Then, lift the foil-topped casserole out of the pan, wrap the whole thing in plastic wrap and freeze until needed. When ready to bake, remove the plastic wrap, put the foiled-topped casserole back into a 9-by-13-inch baking dish and thaw. Bake at 350 degrees F following the baking instructions above.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Mix chicken, cream of chicken soup, cream of mushroom soup, diced tomatoes with green chiles and juice, chicken broth, onion, and canned green chiles together in a bowl, stirring until thoroughly combined.
• Place 1/3 of the tortilla strips in a layer into the bottom of a 9x13-inch baking dish; top with 1/3 of the chicken mixture. Repeat layers twice more; sprinkle Monterey Jack cheese on top of the casserole.
• Bake in the preheated oven until cheese is golden brown and casserole is bubbling, 20 to 25 minutes. If casserole is still slightly runny, let stand 5 to 10 minutes until firm.

Steps:

• Slice mushroom and onions and saute with butter until onions are clear and mushrooms are begin to get soft. Add garlic and saute for 1 extra minute.
• Drain Rotel tomatoes and chilies and add into saute with 1 tsp chili powder.
• Stir in cream of chicken soup and rotisserie chicken and heat through. Line 13x9 inch casserole dish with corn tortillas. Pour half of the filling over and top with another layer of tortillas. Finish with the rest of the filling and cheeses.
• Cook at 350 for 20-30 minutes until bubbly.

Steps:

• In a large pan sprayed with cooking spray, saute onion, bell peppers, garlic and celery.
• Add soups, tomatoes, chiles, spices and chicken broth.
• Line bottom of 9x13 pan with tortilla strips.
• Spread half of chicken over tortillas and top with sauce, then half of cheese.
• Cover with another layer of tortillas, chicken, sauce and cheese.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes or until bubbly.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Coat 11 by 7 by 2-inch baking dish with nonstick cooking spray and set aside. Sauce: Melt butter in medium heavy skillet over moderate heat. Add garlic, red pepper, and cumin and stir-fry 1 minute. Blend in flour, add broth and milk, and cook, stirring constantly, until thickened and smooth -- about 3 minutes. Stir in sour cream, salt, and black pepper to taste; set aside. Filling: Melt butter in large heavy skillet, over moderate heat. Add onion, green pepper, green chilies, mushrooms, tomatoes, and pimiento, and cook, stirring often, until vegetables soften and flavors meld-10 to 15 minutes. Tortillas: Pour oil to depth of 1/2 inch in small heavy skillet, set over moderate heat, and heat until ripples appear on skillet bottom. Holding tortillas by tongs, dip one by one into oil just long enough to soften, 5 to 10 seconds. Drain on paper towels.
• To Layer: Arrange half of tortillas in bottom of prepared baking dish, then build up layers this way, distributing each evenly: 1/2 chicken and 1/3 sauce; 1/2 each filling, cheese, olives, and scallions, and 1/2 remaining tortillas, chicken, filling, cheese, olives, scallions, and finally, remaining sauce. Bake, uncovered, until bubbly- about 30 to 35 minutes. Serve at once.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Put chopped chicken, cream of mushroom soup, Ro-tel tomatoes, and chunks of Velveeta into a bowl; stir them together.
• Spray baking pan with Pam, and then cover the bottom of the pan with half of the tortilla triangles.
• Pour half of the mixture in your bowl on top of the tortillas and spread it around so that it covers all of the tortillas.
• Put remaining half of tortillas on top of the mixture.
• Pour the rest of the mixture from your bowl on top of the second layer of tortillas and once again spread it around onto all of the tortillas.
• Cover top of baking pan with foil and let the casserole cook for 30 minutes.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325° for at least 20 minutes.
• Melt butter in a medium skillet over medium high heat.
• Add chopped onion and bell peppers; sauté 8 minutes or until tender. Stir in chopped cooked chicken and next 5 ingredients: cook stirring occasionally, 2 minutes.
• Place half of crushed tortilla chips in bottom of pan.
• Layer with half each of chicken mixture and shredded Cheddar cheese.
• Repeat layers, ending with cheese.
• Bake uncovered at 325° for 45 minutes or until mixture is throughly heated.
• Garnish if desired.

Steps:

• Boil chicken in broth or stock, I cut the chicken into cubes with kitchen scissors before boiling. Save the stock in case you need to add a bit of liquid to the mixture.
• Combine Rotel, soups, onion, olives, and chicken.
• In a large Pyrex baking dish layer crushed Fritos, cheese, and chicken mixture. Repeat layers until all is used, ending with crushed Fritos.-.
• Heat until bubbly @ 350 degrees.
• When done, cover top Frito layer with cheese, and put back in oven until melted.