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Poor Man’s Chicken Casserole

Someone — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:38:05 +0000

First of all, I apologize in advance because my vocabulary may not be correct to convey certain terms and I really do not feel like looking up words like “casserole” just to learn the exact meaning. OK, I just looked up the word casserole, So I will call this dish “Chris’ Poor Man’s Chicken Casserole”.

Ingredients:

8 Pieces of frozen Chicken Tenders.
2 Packages of Kroger Butter Noodles
2 Packages of Kroger Noodles with Chicken Flavor
4 tsp of butter
8 Cups water.
1 16 oz package of Mild Cheddar Cheese (or choice)

Directions:

Pour 8 cups of water into large pot set to warm temperature. Add butter and let it melt.

Put chicken into pot with water and heat to near boiling. When the chicken is boiling you should have white chicken broth floating to the surface of the water, Take something and scoop out the broth “carefully” not too much but a few scoops with a big spoon should be plentiful, and place the broth into the warming water for the noodle packages then turn the heat on to HIGH.

Once you have scooped out your broth you should be able to start getting the chicken out 1 by 1. The objective here is to get the chicken out,chop it up into small pieces, and put it back into the pot (not the water for the noodles).

Once you have all the chicken chopped up and placed back into the pot, the water for the noodles should be boiling or near boiling, if not wait until it is doing so then add the noodle packages into the big pot of water and stir to avoid clumping.

Once you feel confident that the noodles are not clumped, start to take out the chicken and put them into the noodles (with a spoon with holes preferably because you really do not want to add any more liquid to the noodles than you have to).

After all the chicken is mixed into the noodles, stir occasionally every couple of minutes to avoid burning and to keep the noodles from sticking together.

After about 10 minutes, you should be able to turn the heat off on the noodles and continue every few minutes to stir, You should note the consistency and tenderness of the noodles. If the noodles are not done or soft to your liking please continue to cook them.

After the desired tenderness of the noodles has been reached, pour the noodles into a glass dish, I believe what I use is a 3 Qt. Pyrex dish although I am not positive, I’m a man, I don’t pay too much attention to those details.

Settle the noodles down and pour out evenly the package of cheese on top.

Place into Oven and put on broil for about 2-3 minutes or until desired melting of the cheese is attained.

Poor mans chicken with noodles done right?

Someone — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:01:43 +0000

Ok, earlier I said that I made some buttered noodles with chicken. Well Now I have actually made them from scratch you might say. I wanted to make more but I did not have any more of the package noodles. I did have a bag of egg noodles so I started to cook half of them and started to boil the rest of the chicken breasts I had from last time. Now I really had NO clue on how to cook this stuff so I was taking a crack shot at it. Once the noodles were done I drained most all water and added some milk, I use milk to blend with 2 inch chunk of Velveeta cheese I put in (cut up). Then I added some casserole cheese, mixed it all together and cut up the chicken and added it in as well. To add some flavor I added some garlic salt, salt, pinch or 2 of Grillmates zesty seasoning mix, and some pepper. Once again I was praised for my culinary skills from my coworkers the next day. Another mouth watering dish made by me that will tantalize your taste buds.

Cooking

Someone — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:36:53 +0000

I like to cook sometimes when I am not feeling too lazy. Last night I was going to make some simple butter noodles to bring to work for a birthday. On the way home, I wondered what I would eat for dinner, and being the lazy bachelor that I am, I decided to eat some noodles. While thinking of eating noodles, I thought to myself, “That’s just not enough, what about some chicken with the noodles”. Now I have a plan well some sort of plan, ends up I boiled 3 frozen chicken breasts in a pot while the water was boiling for the noodles (4 packages of butter noodles). I took the chicken out soon and sliced it up into small thin slices and put them back to boiling to cook. After that I continued to pour in the noodles and mix, once I had the noodles stirred into the mix, I took the “cooked” pieces of chicken and added them to the noodles. Continued to cook the noodles as listed on the instructions, stirring moderately until cooked which was about 7-10 minutes. If I must say myself it was very delicious and I received my compliments from the coworkers that enjoyed savoring the flavor.

8 cups of water
1 tablespoon scoop of butter
4 packages of butter noodles
3 frozen boneless chicken breasts

A meal fit for a king for less than $10.

Next time I am going to put the noodles/chicken into a glass dish after being cooked and cover with about 1/4 inch of shredded cheddar cheese and bake until the cheese is melted. Now THAT should be TASTY!!!