I love French Fried Onions, but I only bought them for a holiday meal. You know the one, with the green beans and cream of mushroom soup.
It is just a standard.
The thought of adding them to the top of a chicken casserole just makes me happy and I think your family will be happy when they take a bite of this yummy dish.
French Onion Chicken Casserole
Ingredients
- 3 cups Chopped cooked chicken
- 1 cup chopped celery (other vegetable)
- 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1 cup mayo
- 1 can cream of chicken
- ½ cup slivered almonds
- 1 6 oz French’s fried onions
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 and lightly spray a 9×13 baking dish.
- In large bowl, stir celery, cheese, sour cream, mayo and cream of chicken.
- Add chicken and almonds.
- Spoon into dish.
- Bake uncovered for 30 minutes.
- Sprinkle fried onion and cook another 5 minutes.
- Let stand 5-10 minutes. Enjoy!
Quick Tip: My family is not a huge fan of slivered almonds in their main dish, so I am going to replace that ingredient with a cup of cooked rice.
Sounds so easy and delicious. I’m make it tomorrow for dinner.
how much salt is in this?
It didn’t call for salt because of the fried onion rings but feel free to add a pinch..which is about 1/4 tsp. or to taste.
I like using fresh ground pepper in mine as well.
The soup has a lot of salt in it. i would make my own cream of chicken soup very easy to do. That way your controlling the salt in the dish
chcek the salt content on the cream of chcken soup, the green bens, the sourcream, the myo and the cheddar cheese and you probably hve more than the daily suggested sodium for a whole day in one serving. it may taste good but the salt and fat will not so anyone any good.
You will not die from a serving of this, just don’t over do it.
Instant rice ? Since its only in the oven for 30 mins… The almonds wouldn’t work for my family either, otherwise sounds yummy. I wouldn’t use any salt because of the French onion and the soup.
Going to try this. Thinking of using broccoli. .
Sounds great. I actually love adding in carrots and peas.
Do you add water to the condensed soup first before measuring or use it undiluted ?
Use it undiluted, but I add about 1/4 of a can of milk just because I like it a bit on the creamier side.
What can be substituted for 1 can cream of chicken soup…..(Hubby hates cream of any soup). I love this meal and am interested introducing this back into our menu? We have been married for 46 years…..He very seldom complains…..May have to make it just for me! :-} !
Thank you,
Sandie
Make a basic white sauce and use that instead of the canned soup. So easy to make……let your imagination run a bit here……surprising how good your dish will turn out with whatever changes you make.
You can also replace the almonds with water chestnuts.
Personally I would add both but the water chestnuts will have the crunch desired.
Make your basic white sauce…..then you can use your own add-in ingredients…..choose what you want to put in it. You’ll be surprised at how good these combo’s can work out…..and as for hubby? Took him all those years to figure out he didn’t like canned cream of whatever soups? That’s a lot of years, Mrs.