Easy and Delicious Chicken Fajita Casserole

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Hey y’all! If you’ve never tried this version of fajita casserole, you need to make it asap! It’s so good and the leftovers are delicious too! You just need to try it!

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CHICKEN FAJITA CASSEROLE:
1 can (14.5oz) chicken broth
1 can cream of mushroom (or chicken) soup
1 cup plain Greek yogurt (or sour cream)
1 can ro-tel tomatoes with the juice
1 onion, diced
1 bell pepper, diced
2 cups instant rice
4 cups chicken, cooked and shredded
1 1/2 pkts fajita seasoning
2 cups shredded cheese

Preheat oven to 350F. In a large bowl, put all ingredients except 1 cup of the cheese. Mix well and pour into a greased 9×13 pan. Spread out evenly and top with remaining cheese. Cover with foil and bake for 40-45 minutes. Remove foil and cook a few more minutes or until cheese is as brown as you like it.

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hey y’all today we’re making chicken
fajita
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casserole okay so you’re going to need
one can of chicken broth now I started
out measuring this because I found a
recipe but I ended up changing every
ingredient in the recipe I changed it
like different amounts or actually
different complete different ingredients
so I end up using the whole can you’ll
see that in a minute but
you’re just going to need the whole can
okay just go ahead and add the whole can
in there then you’re going to need one
can of cream soup I’m using cream and
mushroom you can use cream whatever you
want to use now I know a lot of people
don’t like cream soups and freak out
when I use cream soup and I’m you know
to each their own right so if you don’t
want to use it you want to find a
substitute and you know a substitute
that works better feel free to use it or
if you want to make yours homemade you
can do that too you know whatever you
want to do it’s your recipe so anyway
okay then we’re going to add in one cup
of non-fat Greek yogurt now it called
for sour cream I didn’t have any sour
cream but I did have this yogurt and you
can use these pretty
interchangeably I don’t care for sour
cream anyway so I can’t say it tastes
exactly the same but I don’t notice a
difference when I use Greek yogurt in a
um recipe versus when I use uh sour
cream so use sour cream if you want to I
used Greek yogurt and it needs to be the
plain Greek yogurt don’t get vanilla
please don’t get vanilla so I went ahead
and mixed this up a little bit because
you know I didn’t want hunks of cream
soup over here over there whatever I
just thought it would mix easier if I
mixed a little bit along the way you
know so now we’re going to add one can
of I’m using Great Value obviously but
these are like rotail tomatoes like the
tomatoes with the green peppers in them
so the green chilies so just add one can
with the juice then you’re going to need
one onion chopped and a bell pepper
chopped I didn’t feel like chopping but
I had some stuff in the freezer so I
used the seasoning blend and I used a
little bit of this dice green bell
pepper in addition to what little bit of
bell pepper was already in that onion
mix that I had but you can use whatever
you want and then I added in a pack of
fajita seasoning excuse me me and I
didn’t feel like that was going to be
enough for this big old bowl of stuff so
I had another half pack that I had used
in another recipe I had half of it left
so I went ahead and added that in there
too so pack and a half of fajita
seasoning you can also use enchilada
seasoning if you like that because I’ve
used those two interchangeably before
but that’s just me maybe you don’t want
to that’s just how I do it so mix that
in good then we’re going to add in
some instant rice okay I know somebody’s
going to freak out about instant rice
too but that’s what the recipe called
for I did you know go by that much of it
because if you’re going to use real rice
like the you know long you know long
cooking rice then you’re going to have
to add more liquid to this so I went
ahead and just went with the two cups of
instant rice that the recipe had called
for so mix that in get it all good and
mixed in and did I tell to preheat your
oven to 350 I think I might have but if
I didn’t there you go 350° fhe then
you’re going to need about 4 cups of
shredded chicken I cook big packs of
chicken in my crock pot and then I just
shred them up and put them in Ziploc
bags and throw them in the freezer
that’s easier for me but you can use
rotisserie chicken you can use chicken
thighs I just used chicken breast you
need four cups of chicken use whatever
kind of chicken your little heart
desires okay then you’re going to add in
half this bag of cheese so it’s an 8 oz
bag of cheese and I think there’s two
cups in there so you’re going to use a
cup of cheese that we’re going to mix in
with it and we’re going to save the
other cup to put on the
top or you can use more cheese now y’all
know I always say that you can’t have
too much cheese but me personally when I
eat fajitas I don’t use cheese in my
fajitas so I didn’t want to put a whole
whole bunch of cheese in this fajita
casserole this is when I called an
audible and decided to add the rest of
that can of chicken broth after I mixed
it up I was like I don’t think that
looks like enough liquid so I didn’t
want this to be dry so that’s why I
ended up using the whole can okay so
once I got everything mixed in I went
ahead and seasoned it up a little bit
yes we added the pack and a half of
fajita seasoning in there but I just
felt like I don’t know it just needed
some more so I added Old Faithful garlic
onion salt and pepper that’s what I
added in here you can add whatever you
want you don’t have to add anything
extra actually I did not add salt I just
added garlic onion and pepper because
there was enough salty stuff with the
cream soup the broth and the fajita
seasoning I forgot about that but I just
saw myself do it so it must be right so
don’t add any salt salt I mean pepper
garlic and onion okay then you’re going
to need to grease a 9 by3 pan cuz this
makes a lot but you can definitely half
it if you just need half of this okay I
made it and I ate it for a week I’m just
telling you I ate it for a week and it
was good I had it for lunch I had it for
dinner it was a big pan and it is so
good leftover too y’all so dump it into
your 9 by3 pan like I said make sure
your pan is greased we don’t want
anything sticking and then just spread
it out as evenly as you can it doesn’t
have to be perfect you know it’s
casserole it ain’t got to be spread out
perfectly but you know I’m going to try
I’m going to try I’m going spend all my
time trying to spread it out perfectly
and I will put this in the taco Tuesday
playlist and Link that for y’all too
because I got a lot of good little taco
Tuesday meals so once you get it all
spread out you’re going to take that
other half of that bag of cheese that we
saved you know we put half of it in
there and mixed it in and then we’re
just putting this other half on top and
then I just kind of spread it out like I
said you can use a lot more cheese if
you want to you could also use like
pepper jack cheese on this that would be
really really good but I didn’t have any
I just had like this mixed shredded
cheese so that’s what I used I used what
I had if I had just plain cheddar I’d
used that but pepper jack would be
really good on here since it’s sort of a
Mexican is dish you know so then you’re
going to cover this okay cuz we want our
rice to cook but we don’t want
everything on top to burn so cover it
with some fo and then we’re going to put
this in the oven 350° f for about 40 to
40 5 minutes okay just watch it you
don’t want it to burn it’ll it I mean it
is going to kind of steam under that
full anyway so you should be fine but
check it after 40 minutes if it needs a
few more you know add a few more in
there so in the oven when it comes out
you’re going to take off
the um aluminum fo and then you’re going
to pop it back into the oven just until
the cheese is as brown as you want it
okay that’s all we’re doing back into
the oven cuz it’s pretty much done we’re
just kind of Browning the cheese and
that’s
it so I know it might sound a little
strange to be putting rice and all that
stuff in here and all these tomatoes and
this fajita casserole but I am telling
y’all it works this is so dang good if
you’ve never made this you have got to
give this a try okay that is all I have
for y’all today and I’ll catch y’all on
the next one bye y’all
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