Doritos Cheesy Chicken Pasta Casserole

This casserole has cheesy layers of seasoned meat, cream of chicken soup, and Nacho Cheese Doritos combine with noodles in the most amazing way to make the ultimate comfort food casserole that everyone will love. You will love that this cheesy chicken pasta casserole recipe is simple to make.

It only takes about 10 minutes of hands-on prep, plus 25 minutes to bake—a real bonus to busy households.

Ingredients

3 cups cooked chicken *rotisserie has a great flavor and is easy to use in this recipe!

½ of a 12oz bag of egg noodles

1 tablespoon chives

1 teaspoon garlic salt

1 can cream of mushroom soup

1 can cream of chicken soup

1 can Rotel Mild Tomatoes

1 can of corn drained

2 - 2.5 cups Mexican shredded cheese divided

1 bag of nacho cheese Doritos crushed

Instructions

Cook your egg noodles per package directions, drain

In a large mixing bowl combine your egg noodles, cooked chicken, chives, garlic salt, cream of mushroom soup, cream of chicken soup, Rotel Tomatoes, and corn.

Stir until everything is well mixed.

Place ½ of the chicken mixture in a 9x13 casserole dish.

Sprinkle ½ of your cheese over the chicken mixture.

Place the rest of the chicken mixture on top of the cheese and spread out evenly.

Sprinkle the remaining cheese and cover with tin foil.

Bake at 400° for 20 minutes.

Remove the tin foil and continue to bake for an additional 5 minutes.

Remove from oven and sprinkle the crushed Doritos over the top of the casserole.

Serve and enjoy.

Easy Dutch Oven Cabbage Roll Casserole

Not sure about you, but I'm not a fan of cabbage rolls.  Yes, I've said it.  I'm not a fan of cabbage rolls.  There, I've said it again.

BUT, this is a casserole.  This is a TOTALLY different animal.

This I can eat!  This is amazing.  This isn't drowned in tomatoe sauce.  Don't get me wrong, tomatoe sauce has it's place, but drowning my meal isn't one of them.

Ingredients

1 cabbage, coarsely chopped, divided
8 slices bacon, chopped (who am I kidding, I use the entire package)
2 large onions, chopped
2 pounds ground beef, turkey, pork, chicken or sausage, or a combination of 2, or 3, but enough for about 2 pounds
2 tablespoons garlic, minced
1 teaspoon pepper
2 cups long grain rice
1 can (28 oz) diced tomatoes, not drained
2 cups vegetable broth
1 teaspoon hot pepper sauce, more or less to taste

Stuff you will need

Largest Dutch Oven you got
Largest cast iron skillet you got, 14 inch should do
Cutting board
Sharp chef's knife
Tongs for cooking the bacon
Large enough spoon/spatula to cook the meat/onions
Colander
Large mixing bowl
Cooking spray

Directions

Prepare your dutch oven with a light coating of cooking spray. Sprinkle 1/2 your chopped cabbage all across the bottom of your dutch oven.

Pre-heat your oven to 300 F.  200 F if you starting this in the morning for your evening meal, or on low if your using a slow cooker.

In a large cast iron skillet, over medium to medium heat, cook bacon until crisp. Remove bacon and place on a paper towel lined plate. You are not finished with this skillet, do not dump the bacon grease.  Set bacon aside. 

Add onion, ground meat, garlic and pepper. Cook until ground meat is cooked.  Onions should be tender. Drain meat/onion mixture in a colander that is sitting in the large mixing bowl so that you can remove as much grease as possible. Dump your meat/onion mixture on top of the cabbage in your dutch oven.

Now sprinkle your rice on top of the meat mixture. Then sprinkle your crisp bacon on top of the rice. Sprinkle remaining cabbage on top of the bacon.

Pour the vegetable broth over the cabbage.  It's going to percolate to the bottom of the dutch oven.

In a good sized bowl combine your can of not drained, diced tomatoes, and hot pepper sauce. Pour as evenly as possible all over the top of the casserole. Do not stir it at all. 

Put the cover on the dutch oven and into the oven for 3 hours.

Stir before serving.

If you would need this recipe to be done so that you can enjoy it while on the Keto WOE, remove the rice.

Comments and suggestions are ALWAYS welcome!