Recipe: Delicious Loaded Baked Potato & Chicken Casserole

Loaded Baked Potato & Chicken Casserole. These LOADED baked potatoes turn a standard side dish into a full-on entrée. Packed with steamed broccoli, bacon, cheddar, sour cream, and chives, they are a meal on their own! They are quick to toss together, have a variety of different flavors and ingredients, and are economical to make in bulk.

In a bowl, lightly mash the potato flesh. Loaded Baked Potato Soup Imagine all your favorite baked potato toppings—bacon, cheddar, sour cream, green onions—in a spoon. Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper Place potatoes into a large pot and cover with salted water; bring to a boil. You can have Loaded Baked Potato & Chicken Casserole using 10 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Loaded Baked Potato & Chicken Casserole

1. It's 2 lb of Chicken breast, cubed.
2. Prepare 8 of Potatoes, cubed.
3. It's 1/3 cup of Olive oil.
4. Prepare 1 1/2 tsp of salt.
5. You need 1 tbsp of pepper.
6. It's 1 1/2 tbsp of Garlic powder.
7. Prepare 6 tbsp of Hot sauce , optional.
8. Prepare 2 cup of Cheddar cheese, shredded.
9. Prepare 1 cup of Bacon, crumbled.
10. Prepare 1/2 cup of Green onion, diced.

Drain and return potatoes to pot. Baked potatoes can be a wonder to behold, all soft, fluffy, and snowy-white. They're also bland as bland as bland can be. I don't say this to malign the potato—alongside wheat, rice, and corn, the starchy tuber is crucial to sustaining the world's population, which is no small claim.

Loaded Baked Potato & Chicken Casserole instructions

1. Preheat oven to 500°F.
2. In large bowl mix olive oil, salt, pepper, garlic powder, and hot sauce.
3. Add potatoes to bowl.
4. Coat 9x13 baking dish with cooking spray.
5. Add potatoes, leave excess oil in the bowl.
6. Bake potatoes for 45 minutes, stirring every 15 minutes.
7. I like to cook my chicken a little before I put it in the bowl with oil. Do not cook all the way.
8. Add cubed chicken to bowl with left over oil. allow to marinate while potatoes bake.
9. Ounce potatoes are done, add chicken.
10. Then bacon.
11. Bake for 15 more minutes..
12. Then add cheese and green onion. cook for 3 more minutes.

Once cooled, cut the potatoes vertically, scoop out the inside, and transfer to a bowl. Transfer potatoes to a cutting board, and cut in half. Using a spoon, gently scoop out the inside flesh of the potatoes and transfer to a medium bowl. Add the sour cream, melted butter, salt, pepper, ½ of the shredded cheese, and ½ of the scallions, and combine with a hand mixer until smooth. My husband is a meat and potatoes guy, so I try new combinations for variety.