I love a great casserole recipe. This affordable family dinner is one that we make sure to have once a month. I try to save if for the nights where I know I’ll be short on time in the kitchen.
It is a fast dinner idea that I can throw everything into the baking dish and in the oven it goes! Plus it is awesome that it has the veggies right in the casserole so my kids won’t even notice them.
The other nice thing about this recipe is more than likely you will have all of the things you need for it if you are trying to pull dinner together last minute. Many of these ingredients can be found on our Pantry Staples list!
Oh yeah, and how could I not mention leftovers? This recipe makes a lot and is perfect to reheat and eat the next day. Just another reason why I love casseroles.
Speaking of casseroles, they are a huge hit for our fellow bakers. Some of our more popular casseroles are:
- John Wayne Casserole
- Chicken Zucchini Casserole
- Creamy Chicken and Rice Casserole Skillet
- and our all-time favorite Million Dollar Casserole.
These casseroles are always a crowd and picky-eater pleaser!
Chicken casserole ingredients:
Be sure you are prepared with all the necessities for this easy chicken casserole:
- Cream of chicken soup
- Water
- Long-grain white rice (THIS kind works well!)
- Broccoli
- Onion powder
- Boneless skinless chicken breasts
- Salt
- Pepper
- Italian breadcrumbs
- Mozzarella cheese
Other kitchen items you’ll need for this family dinner recipe:
- 9 x 13 baking dish (Love THIS Pyrex dishes for easily storing leftovers)
- Aluminum foil
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How to make chicken broccoli rice casserole:
Begin making this chicken casserole by preheating the oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.
Then, open up the can of cream of chicken soup and pour it into the bottom of the 9 x 13 baking dish along with the water, rice, broccoli, and onion powder. Mix everything together until it is well combined.
NOTE: The chicken and broccoli will both be raw when the dish goes into the oven.
Now need to take your trimmed chicken breasts and place them on top of the rice and broccoli mixture. Then, season the chicken will salt and pepper to your taste preference.
After the chicken has been seasoned, sprinkle the Italian breadcrumbs over top of the chicken.
When that is done, cover the baking dish with aluminum foil.
Then, simply place the chicken casserole into the oven and bake it at 375 degrees for 45 minutes or until the chicken and rice are fully cooked. (Depending on your oven your rice might take a little longer to cook.)
Once the chicken and rice are fully baked, remove the foil and top the chicken and rice with mozzarella cheese and return the foil over top and let it sit on the counter for another 5 minutes or so to allow the cheese to melt.
Now, just serve and enjoy!
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Broccoli Chicken and Rice Bake Recipe
Ingredients
- 10.75 ounces cream of chicken soup, 1 can
- 1⅓ cup water
- ¾ cup long grain white rice, uncooked
- 2 cup fresh broccoli, (chopped into small pieces)
- ½ teaspoon onion powder
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder
- salt and pepper, to taste
- 6 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
- ½ cup Italian breadcrumbs
- ½ cup shredded Mozzarella cheese
- 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
Equipment
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- Stir the soup, water, rice, broccoli, onion powder, and garlic powder in 9 x 13 inch baking dish.
- Place the chicken on top of rice mixture and season with salt and pepper (I also sprinkled some more onion powder and garlic powder on top of the chicken as well).
- Sprinkle the breadcrumbs evenly on the top of the chicken and rice. Cover the pan with foil.
- Bake at 375 degrees for 45 minutes or until chicken is fully cooked (internal temperature of 165 degrees).
- Remove pan from oven and remove foil. Top with cheese and cover again with the foil. Let the casserole sit for 5 minutes to allow the cheese to melt.
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To make this recipe even simpler just use Near East Rice Pilaf, water, soup, broccoli and chicken. I use Mexican Cheese as my topping. My family loves this chicken dish! (You can also use Campbell’s Cream of Cheddar Soup as well.)
can you substitute in brown rice, black rice, or quinoa for the white rice?
One of my favorite meals ever, but ours never looked this good growing up!
One box of rice pilaf or two? Uncooked, correct? I like this idea as an alternative, thanks!
I have never tried it, but I bet it would work!
This sounds really really good, will try soon.
Just wanted to say thanks for always sharing great recipes like this! With 3 very young kids at home these sorts of meals are about all I have time for! We love stuff like this (quick and healthy meals) and the slow cooker ones. Not to mention the desserts! We have this one in the oven now and it looks great. Just wanted to say thanks since I rarely comment but use your site each week to make our weekly menu. I appreciate ingredients I know, are easy to find, and that are good to feed a family inexpensively. Keep up the good work!
I just put mine in the oven, so easy! I can’t wait to try it. Thanks for the suggestion with using the rice pilaf. I didn’t realize that the rice I had was ‘instant’ rice and I don’t think that would have worked.
Could you make this in the crockpot?
My rice wasn’t anywhere near cooked after 45 minutes, I feel like this always happens with casseroles that have uncooked rice! Any suggestions?
I tried this recipe as written, but found it a bit bland. Second time I added about a cup white wine, I let it reduce, and huge difference. Also added about a cup of freshly sliced mushrooms. The dish was sublime. Give it a go.
Looks easy and delicious! Definitely pinning it for future recipes!
This is super easy and everyone loves it. It is now on the repeat list! Thank you!
This looks wonderful, would it freeze well do you think? Should I precook the rice and then assemble and freeze? I’m looking for some postpartum freezer meals 😉 Thanks!
We haven’t prepared this as a freezer meal. The rice would be mushy before it ever hit the oven if you assembled it and then put it in the freezer. We have a lot of posts of terrific freezer meals.
https://www.sixsistersstuff.com/2012/09/slow-cooker-freezer-meals-make-8-meals.html
https://www.sixsistersstuff.com/2013/02/10-slow-cooker-freezer-meals-in-less.html
https://www.sixsistersstuff.com/2013/08/50-easy-freezer-meals.html
https://www.sixsistersstuff.com/2011/12/fresh-food-friday-20-tried-and-true.html
https://www.sixsistersstuff.com/2015/06/10-of-the-best-5-minute-freezer-meals.html
Hope this helps!!! Congrats on your baby!
I would like to know this as well, because mine wasn’t done either! Just cranked up the heat and will be checking on it again shortly. Hopefully it’s done this time.
Delicious! Family loved it! Easy to make! One tip I let mine cook for 1 hr and the rice was done perfect!
Do I put the chicken and the broccoli in raw or do either of them need to be precooked? Thanks!
Put the chicken and broccoli in raw. You will be cooking it for 45 minutes.
After reading people’s comments about chicken/rice still being raw & thinking it was a bit bland…here is what I did & im in LOVE! So is the fam!
Combined RAW chicken (in bite size pieces), frozen broccoli, rice, chicken broth (instead of water), cream of chicken, cream of mushroom, onion powder, garlic powder, salt, pepper, paprika, 1 cup shredded sharp cheddar, & a small finely chopped onion in a large mixing bowl. I then placed it in a greased 9 x 13 baking dish. I put it in a 400 degree oven for 20 min covered with foil, stirred around halfway through (the rice on top wasn’t cooking). I placed it back in the oven for another 20 min. Then sprinkled bread crumbs & a little more cheese & put it back in the oven for about 10 min. & thats it! I know it seems a little more complicated than the original, but well worth it & super tasty!
Im trying this recipe tonight. Cant wait. Thanks
Tried this recipe last night the way you described and it was very good. My daughter said it was delicious. I think next time I’m going to use a cream of mushroom and a cream of celery.
This was a easy dish just mit have to do a bigger portion next time
Loved it! Only changes I made;
I used chicken stock in place of water
Adobo for seasoning
And Mexican Cheese on top
Delicious!
My family of 6 loves this! I have 2 picky toddlers, so I chop the broccoli in the food processor before adding and use quick cooking brown rice. It’s perfect! I also tried this once with whole chicken breasts, but they were too large to cook in time, so I cut them into cutlets and it worked perfectly! thank you!
My rice and chicken did not cook, left it another 45 minutes rice was still not cook, i removed chicken and cooking in foil separate and the will add it back. Next time i am precooking rice , broccoli and chicken
I’m sorry your chicken did not cook. 45 minutes is usually plenty of time for chicken breasts to bake unless they are very thick. After reading over the comments some readers suggested cooking it for 1 hour and the rice was done just right.
HOLY COW was this good !!
I made it tonight and it is a new favorite for my family. Thank you for sharing your idea on how to make this, good job!!
my chicken was red on one side not done on 45 mins at 375. crank it up to 425 and cooking longer
I have bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs. This recipe sounds so good, I wonder if I can try thighs instead of breasts?
Thighs should work just fine in this recipe.
There was a lot of chicken and only a little rice so I’m going to add more rice next time. Still very tasty and will definitely make again!
Used thin cut chicken breasts, followed recipe and still raw after 45 minutes. Cranked the heat to 450 for 15 more minutes, chicken cooked, but rice was definitely not done.
I’ve made it 4 times and the rice never cooks all the way
Soak the rice in the liquid mixture before baking. I let it set at least an hour before baking.
Just took mine out and the rice and broccoli were hard as well.
I had high hopes for this recipe. Chicken was cooked but rice and broccoli were not. Very VERY bland!
Same here. My fam is grossed out. Rice is hard. Chicken is underdone. I had large chicken breast that I cut in half before putting in the casserole dish. I added more water and put it back in the oven but I don’t think my family will give it another chance. Epic fail. And it looked SO GOOD. I have a similar recipe that calls for an additional 40 oz of liquid and a total of 2 hours baking.
Hey Six Sisters can you figure this out for us? What are we doing wrong?
I don’t have long grain rice, just minute rice. Do you think that would work?
Minute rice cooks a lot faster than long grain rice. We haven’t made it with minute rice. I’m sure it would work, but you would have to edit the directions.
I always soak my rice in water for an hour or two before cooking. I just put the rice in a bowl of water. After it has soaked for an hour or two drain the water and add as the recipe states. I have found it takes me closer to an hour to cook. I wait until the rice is almost done to put in the chicken, usually at 45 minutes, but I cut up. the chicken because I have small kids. I also have subbed half the rice for cauliflower rice and my family (my kids are 3 and 6) preferred it!
We love this recipe! I added additional seasonings to personalize this to our own taste but every time I make it it’s a huge hit! Everything cooked to perfection including the rice! Thanks for the recipe!
How I wish I had read the reviews before making this dish! Like others mentioned, the rice was way undercooked. My family too was grossed out by that. AND the chicken was tough and stringy, which can happen when it’s baked at too high of a temp. Dinner was ruined.