Chicken and Wild Rice Casserole

Description

A creamy chicken, wild rice, and mushroom casserole. This elegant, tasty recipe may be made in advance and baked right before company arrives! It’s a real family favorite! Serve with French-style green beans or broccoli, fruit salad and French bread. That’s all you need.

Ingredients

  • 3 pounds bone-in chicken breast halves, with skin
  • 1 cup water
  • 1 cup dry white wine
  • 1 ½ teaspoons salt
  • 1 teaspoon curry powder
  • 1 onion, sliced
  • 1 cup chopped celery
  • 2 (6 ounce) packages long grain and wild rice mix
  • 1 (16 ounce) can sliced mushrooms, drained
  • 1 cup sour cream
  • 1 (10.75 ounce) can condensed cream of mushroom soup

Instructions

  1. Place chicken breasts in a large pot with water
  2. wine
  3. salt
  4. curry powder
  5. onion
  6. and celery. Cover
  7. and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low
  8. and simmer for 1 hour. Remove from heat
  9. strain (reserving broth)
  10. and refrigerate to cool. Remove chicken meat from bone
  11. and cut into bite size pieces.
  12. Prepare the rice mix according to package directions. Replace the specified amount of liquid with the same amount of the reserved broth.
  13. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a 9×13 inch baking dish.
  14. In a large bowl combine the chicken
  15. rice
  16. and mushrooms. Blend in the sour cream and soup. Spoon into the prepared baking dish.
  17. Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 1 hour.

Prep Time: 30 mins

Cook Time: 2 hrs

Total Time: 2 hrs 30 mins

Servings: 10

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