Who Has Time to Spend All Day In The Kitchen? With this recipe you don’t have to!

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

  1. Preheat oven to 350 and lightly spray a 9×13 baking dish.
  2. In large bowl, stir celery, cheese, sour cream, mayo and cream of chicken.
  3. Add chicken and almonds.
  4. Spoon into dish.
  5. Bake uncovered for 30 minutes.
  6. Sprinkle fried onion and cook another 5 minutes.
  7. 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.

Recipe and photo courtesy of Kristyne of Lil’ Luna.

15 Comments

  1. Judy Canter says

    Sounds so easy and delicious. I’m make it tomorrow for dinner.

  2. Pam says

    how much salt is in this?

    1. Marci Seither says

      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.

    2. Cindi says

      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

  3. PatR says

    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.

    1. Mary Anderson says

      You will not die from a serving of this, just don’t over do it.

  4. JoyceM says

    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.

  5. Marilym says

    Going to try this. Thinking of using broccoli. .

    1. Marci Seither says

      Sounds great. I actually love adding in carrots and peas.

  6. Jenny says

    Do you add water to the condensed soup first before measuring or use it undiluted ?

    1. Marci Seither says

      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.

  7. Sandie says

    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

    1. Pam Adams says

      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.

  8. Tom hardy says

    You can also replace the almonds with water chestnuts.
    Personally I would add both but the water chestnuts will have the crunch desired.

  9. Pamela Adams says

    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.

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