Chicken and Stuffing Casserole with chunks of white chicken meat and a creamy stuffing mix with onions, celery, and mushrooms makes perfect fall comfort food and is just the meal to serve when you can’t wait for that Thanksgiving meal.
Chicken Casseroles are one of my favorite dinners to cook during the cold weather months. They’re comforting, satisfying, and usually a very economical way to feed a family. Plus they are great for using up leftovers and become wonderful leftovers themselves. Some of my favorites are Sandy’s Chicken, Chicken Cobbler, and Chicken Cornbread Casserole.
This recipe for Chicken and Stuffing Casserole uses a method for poaching chicken that I really love. No need to worry about rubbery, overcooked chicken. Add just enough water to the pot to cover the chicken, bring to a boil, and simmer 2 minutes. Cover, remove from heat, and let sit 30 minutes and then drain (but reserve the liquid). The chicken really picks up the flavor of whatever herbs, spices, and vegetables you add to the liquid. In this case celery, carrot, onion, and thyme.
You could also use rotisserie chicken or even leftover turkey for this casserole.
A can of cream of chicken soup, some milk, and a little mayo make for a super creamy and moist casserole.
Chicken and Stuffing Casserole can be assembled the night before and covered and refrigerated. Just add 5 minutes or so onto the cooking time.
Watch the short video below to see how easy this casserole is!
Chicken and Stuffing Casserole
Ingredients
- 2 boneless,, skinless chicken breasts
- salt and, pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1 carrot
- 2 celery stalks,, 1 stalk diced
- 1 yellow onion, cut in half, one half diced
- 6-8 mushrooms sliced
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 can cream chicken soup
- 1/4 cup mayo
- 1/2 cup milk
- 4 cups stuffing mix,, I used Pepperidge Farm
- 2 tablespoons butter,, melted
- 1/2-3/4 cup reserved chicken broth from poaching chicken
- salt and pepper
Instructions
- Place chicken breasts in a pan and add just enough water to cover. Add about 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/4 teaspoon pepper, and 1/4 teaspoon thyme, plus 1/2 onion, 1 celery stalk, and carrot.
- Bring to a boil and immediately reduce to a simmer for 2 minutes. Remove pan from heat and cover. Let sit 30 minutes. Remove chicken from liquid and set aside. Save 3/4 cup of broth. Dice chicken once cooled.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Heat olive oil in a nonstick skillet. Add diced onion, celery, and sliced mushrooms. Saute until lightly browned. Season with salt and pepper.
- Add chicken soup, mayo, milk, and reserved chicken. Mix well. Stir in 1 cup of stuffing mix.
- Spray a casserole dish with cooking spray and transfer chicken mixture to dish.
- Add remaining 3 cups of stuffing mix on top. Pour melted butter on top and then chicken broth. Pour chicken broth on slowly and evenly so that the stuffing mix soaks it up as much as possible.
- Bake for 30 minutes.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
This is a very good casserole. I used a rotisserie chicken and left out the mushrooms but otherwise followed the recipe.
My stuffing on top came out pretty dry and I even added a little extra broth. Is it supposed to be crunchy on top or like actual moist stuffing? It was still pretty good, just a little crispy lol.
I doubled it and added egg noodles.
Can this recipe be doubled?
I haven’t made this yet, but I don’t see why it couldn’t be doubled. I would probably use 2 casserole dishes though, rather than dump it all in one big pan. Since there is only DH & me, I am going to cut the recipe in half for our dinner tonight. If we like it, the next time I make it I will make the full recipe and freeze half.
I mixed EVERYTHING together before sopping into a greased baking dish, the served with store-bought chicken gravy (NOT from a can). My husband took it to his lodge’s “eatin’ meetin’“. The consensus was “Please bring it again”. I take that as two thumbs up.
This was amazing!!!! My boys loved it and it will definitely be put in our fall/winter dinner rotation! Yum!