Lazy Day Creamy Chicken & Rice Dinner Casserole
If you're looking for easy family meals to make, this classic chicken casserole belongs on your dinner menu! It's simple to make in one pan with just a few basic pantry staples, and leaves everyone at the dinner table with full bellies.
Servings: 8
Ingredients
- 1½ pounds boneless skinless chicken breasts
- 2 cups Minute Rice (white or brown)
- 1 can cream of mushroom soup
- 1 can cream of chicken soup
- 1 can water (use one of the soup cans)
- 1 envelope Lipton Onion Soup Mix
- 1 tbsp butter
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350° F and generously grease a 9x13 baking dish with about 1 tbsp of butter. You can also use cooking spray or oil, but I like the added flavor the butter adds to the rice.
- In a medium size bowl, combine two cups of uncooked Instant rice, both cans of soup, and a can of water.
- Pour the mixture into your buttered pan.
- Place the chicken breasts on top of the mixture and sprinkle them with the envelope of onion soup mix.
- Cover with foil and bake for 1-1½ hours or until the chicken is cooked through (it also takes at least an hour for the rice to fully cook).
Notes
- Minute rice cooks a lot fast than regular rice, so keep that in mind when making this dish. If you decide to use regular rice, you'll need to partially precook it first.
- 1½ pounds of chicken can be anywhere from 2-4 chicken breasts, depending on the size. It takes just over an hour to thoroughly cook in my oven but every oven varies.
- Once cooked, you can either cut the chicken into individual servings for each member of the family, or go ahead and dice the chicken and mix it in with the rice.
- Looking for side dish ideas? We love air fried broccoli tossed with bit of olive oil and seasoning, but any seasonal veggie would be a healthy addition to this simple meal.
- Wondering why this dish has so many names? It's a classic dinner recipe that goes by either "forgotten chicken" or "no peek chicken" because once the foil is placed on the dish, you want to leave it on there and forget about it without peeking so that the rice can fully steam and cook.
