Nat's Chicken Noodle Casserole. Creamy chicken and noodle casserole topped with crushed crackers. Wonderful as leftovers topped with melted cheese! Comforting chicken noodle casserole with a simple homemade white sauce, cheese, chicken and egg noodles.
My Chicken Noodle Casserole is super creamy, thanks to a sauce I made from stock thickened with beurre manie (butter and flour) and sour cream.
I finished the casserole with a blanket of melted cheddar on top, wide egg noodles underneath, and moist chunks of chicken throughout.
This chicken noodle casserole includes egg noodles, mushrooms, milk, chicken broth, pimento, diced cooked chicken, and Parmesan cheese.
You can have Nat's Chicken Noodle Casserole using 3 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Nat's Chicken Noodle Casserole
- Prepare of Chicken breast.
- It's of Wide egg noodles.
- It's of Cream of chicken soup.
In the prepared casserole dish, combine the cooked and drained noodles, the diced chicken, and sauce mixture. To change it in any way seems almost sacrilegious. You can easily adapt this with different vegetables, swap the tuna for chicken, or even use whole wheat noodles. There are no rules to cooking, just have fun with it!
Nat's Chicken Noodle Casserole step by step
- Boil chicken until cooked, add salt and/or olive oil as desired..
- Remove chicken from water, spoon out 1 1/2 can worth of broth and mix with two cans of cream of chicken soup. Add spices as desired..
- Add water to chicken broth in pot, bring to boil and cook egg noodles in broth..
- Cut chicken into pieces, mix with cream of chicken and broth mixture. Place into casserole dish(es), depending on what size you have..
- Drain pasta and add to chicken mixture. Add cheese and/or cracker crumbs as desired..
- Bake at 325 for 20 minutes or until browned on top..
- Let cool and serve!.
By using a rotisserie chicken, the prep time is cut in half. Easy Chicken Noodle Casserole Recipe Tips. I served this casserole with fresh fruit and good rolls. The combination was so easy and quick to prepare. As our kids got older, I had to double the recipe.