King Ranch Chicken Casserole (Oamc)

LILTEXQT's Note:

This version reminds me of the one served at Mama's Cafe in San Antonio, TX. YUM! You can add some heat by using Hot Picante Sauce and/or Hot Rotel. Now living in Iowa, this reminds me of home. Enjoy!

• Total Time: 1 hrs
• Prep Time: 20 mins
• Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 4

• 1 (10 3/4 ounce) can cream of mushroom soup
• 3/4 cup picante sauce (heat level according taste)
• 3/4 cup sour cream
• 1 tablespoon chili powder
• 2 cups chopped tomatoes (or 2 cans drained Rotel)
• 3 cups cubed cooked chicken (can used canned chicken)
• 12 corn tortillas, cut into 1 inch pieces (6 inch)
• 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
• 1 small onion, chopped (optional)
• 1 (4 ounce) can sliced black olives (optional)

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
2. Mix soup, picante sauce, sour cream, chili powder, tomatoes (or Rotel), and chicken.
3. In 2-quart shallow baking dish, spread 1/2 of the tortilla pieces to cover the bottom. Top with 1/2 the chicken mixture.
4. Repeat layers.
5. Sprinkle with cheese and onions.
6. Bake at 350°F for 40 minutes or until hot.
7. If desired, serve with additional picante sauce, sour cream, onions, black olives, shredded cheese.
8. TO FREEZE: Freeze chicken mixture in Ziploc bags uncooked.
9. TO SERVE: Defrost chicken mixture. Arrange corn tortillas and chicken mixture according to above directions and bake.

Reviews

[msm in Michigan]

Very good recipe. I used my own canned salsa (Wonderful Salsa from this site). I used low fat sour cream and due to a personal preference, I used flour tortillas. I also added 2 cups of frozen corn (thawed). Thank you for sharing your recipe. This was made for Spring PAC 2008. I will also submit a picture in the next week.

[Squisha]

My family loved this recipe! Thank you for it, very quick and easy.

[Beautiful BC]

This was a nice recipe as it was easy to do and tasty. The tomato flavours were a little on the heavy side for us - tomato lovers will be happy! I found it was a bit on the thin side after cooking and the tortilla's were dry. Maybe, using store bought tortilla's, it would help to sprinkly water on them first?