Recipe: Tasty Southwest Chicken and Rice Casserole

Southwest Chicken and Rice Casserole. Layer rice, black beans, chili powder, broth and chicken breasts in baking dish. Chop chicken breasts into bite size pieces. Southwest Chicken and Rice Casserole; Southwest Chicken and Rice Casserole.

This southwestern chicken casserole is made with diced chicken, black beans and corn, cooked rice, and seasonings, along with an easy homemade sauce and optional cheese topping. Rub the dry taco seasoning mix into the chicken; lay chicken on top of soup mixture. In a large skillet over medium heat, melt butter; add rice, salt and diced tomatoes w/ pepper/onion. You can cook Southwest Chicken and Rice Casserole using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Southwest Chicken and Rice Casserole

1. It's of cream of chicken soup.
2. Prepare of water or stock.
3. You need of Pace thick n chunky salsa.
4. Prepare of uncooked long grain rice.
5. You need of onion powder.
6. Prepare of frozen whole corn.
7. You need of skinless boneless chicken breast.
8. You need of shredded mexican cheese blend.

Heat through and pour into bottom of prepared baking pan. Southwestern Chicken & Yellow Rice Casserole - seriously delicious! We ate this for dinner and reheated for lunch the next day. Chicken, yellow rice, cream of chicken soup, corn, black beans, rotel diced tomatoes, and green chiles and cheese.

Southwest Chicken and Rice Casserole instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 375°F.
2. Cut chicken breasts in half and thaw the corn.
3. Stir soup, stock, salsa, rice, onion powder, and corn in greased 9 x 13 baking dish.
4. Top with chicken breast and season as desired.
5. Bake at 375 for 40 to 45 minutes or until chicken is done.
6. Remove and top with cheese and bake until brown.

Use a rotisserie chicken and this is ready to bake in minutes. Add all of the ingredients (minus the shredded cheese) into the casserole dish and mix together with a wooden spoon making sure that everything is well mixed and submerged in liquid. In a small bowl, mix together chicken broth, sour cream, and half of the taco seasoning. In a large casserole dish, add rice, vegetable mix, and half of the pico de gallo. Stir everything together, then pour chicken broth mixture over top.