Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Cooking: King Ranch Chicken

My mother-in-law gave me this recipe. It is so easy and freezes well!

You will need:

2 1/2 lbs chicken- cubed or shredded (I use whole chicken)

Crushed chips

2 cups cheese

1 can mushroom soup

1 can chicken soup

1 can rotel

1/2 diced onion

1/2 stick butter

 

Start buy boiling a whole chicken. I doubled the recipe when taking these pictures but will give instructions for making just 1 dish.IMG_1200

I made one for company and one to freeze for when the baby comes.

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First butter a pan and then crumple up chips (great way to get rid of end-of-the bag chips!) until bottom of pan is covered.

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Dice 1/2 onion. I use this amazing food chopper.

Put 1/2 stick of butter to melt in a sauce pan or skillet.

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Add onion IMG_1198

Once onion is saulted add 1 can of Rotel and saulte it too.

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Add mushroom and chicken soup.

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Stir it together until it looks like something you DON’T want to eat!

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Let it cook on low while you shred chicken. You will use about 2 1/2 pounds of chicken for this. Spread chicken over the top of the chips.

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Then add soup mixture.

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Then add crushed chips over soup.

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And top with cheese.

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At this point you can refrigerate for later, or freeze the dish. I froze one and refrigerated the other for the evening meal.

Cook for 30 minutes at 350 degrees. Pull out and serve!

Touched up final freeze picture

1 comment:

  1. YUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM. This is one I know I can do! I love that you did a tutorial, takes all the guesswork out for those people like me who don't really read directions very well. Ha! I will sometimes get to the end of a recipe and realize I left somethng out. The worst was when I did that colorng someone else's hair! She was a professional and boy I think she was ready to strangle me.Never said I was a professional.....

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