I was 16 when I first had chicken and stuffing casserole. In the ensuing years, I’ve altered the recipe considerably to add vegetables and make the cream sauce lighter. In many ways, it is a new chicken and stuffing recipe!
So take a listen to “What’s New” sung by Ella Fitzgerald and enjoy the veggies added to the recipe.
Ingredients
- 2 cups chicken broth or 2 bouillon cubes plus 2 cups water
- 1 zucchini, peeled, thickly sliced
- 2 pounds chicken breasts, cubed
- 3 ounces fresh spinach
- 1 cup diced onion
- ½ cup red pepper, diced
- 1½ cups celery, chopped
- ½ cup butter
- 1 can cream of chicken soup, 98% fat-free
- ¾ cup sour cream
- 1½ cups skim milk
- 1 (14-ounce) bag Pepperidge Farm® stuffing
- ½ teaspoon ground sage
- ½ teaspoon poultry seasoning
- ¾ cup almonds, sliced, toasted
Instructions
- Spray 9”x13” baking pan with Pam®.
- Peel and thickly slice zucchini placing slices flat in the bottom of the baking pan.
- Put chicken broth in a large sauce pan over medium heat. Bring to a boil. Turn down to low.
- Add cubed chicken 1 cup at a time, cooking the chicken for about 5 minutes or until no longer pink. With a strainer scoop, remove chicken and place over and around zucchini slices. Cook remaining chicken in simmering broth. Remove all cooked chicken to baking pan.
- Lay fresh spinach over the chicken pieces.
- To the broth in the sauce pan, add diced onion, red pepper, and chopped celery.
- Add butter. Stir to melt butter faster. Simmer for 5 minutes over low heat.
- While vegetables and broth are simmering, combine in a small bowl the chicken soup, sour cream and milk with a whisk.
- Pour over spinach in baking pan.
- Set baking pan aside.
- In a large bowl put stuffing, sage, and poultry seasoning. Remove broth and vegetables in sauce pan from heat and pour over dry stuffing. Stir to mix.
- Top the casserole with the stuffing mixture. Break up clumps so that the topping seals the ingredients underneath.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Bake for 35-40 minutes or until bubbly. Remove from oven and top with almonds.
- Bake for 5 minutes longer.