Chicken Pasta Casserole with Corn and Zucchini Recipe

I love our chicken pasta casserole with corn and zucchini recipe. It is so good and a fun zucchini recipe that you might not have even thought about. 

My garden is always booming with zucchini this time of year and I am always looking for good recipes to use it in. Sometimes you just need a different way to use zucchini that isn’t bread or oven roasted and this chicken pasta zucchini casserole is perfect. 

You don’t need to do a bunch of prep work for our chicken pasta casserole so it makes this dish nice to make when you are low on energy or time. Not to mention that it is super delicious too, and makes for great leftovers!

If you need more ideas on how to use up all of that delicious fresh zucchini from your garden, take a look at our air fryer crispy zucchini bites recipe, zucchini pizza casserole recipe, and of course our chicken zucchini casserole recipe for a few tasty suggestions and our favorite ways to use up zucchini. Let us know your favorite way to use zucchini too! 

Ingredients You Need to For Our Chicken Pasta Casserole with Corn and Zucchini Recipe:

• Butter
• All-purpose flour
• Chicken broth
• Milk
• Salt
• Pepper
• Garlic salt
• Fresh thyme
• Penne pasta
• Shredded Mozzarella cheese
• Boneless skinless chicken breasts
• Zucchini
• Frozen corn
• Fresh baby spinach
• Shredded Parmesan cheese

How To Make Our Chicken Pasta Casserole with Corn and Zucchini Recipe:

To make this tasty casserole, start by preheating the oven to 350 degrees, also be sure that your chicken has been cooked and shredded, or use a rotisserie chicken! 

Then grease a 9×13 inch pan with nonstick cooking spray and set it aside for later. 

When you are done preparing the dish, bring a pot of water to boil and cook the noodles according to the packaging. 

Now, in a large skillet, melt the butter over medium-high heat.

When the butter is completely melted, add in the flour and mix it together and let it cook for about 1 minute. 

Continue to create the casserole sauce by adding in the chicken broth, milk, salt, pepper, garlic salt, fresh thyme, and then mixing it all together. 

Let it come to a boil and turn it down and let it simmer while stirring it constantly to make sure the sauce is without lumps, and smooth. 

After the sauce is smooth, let it continue to cook for another 5-10 minutes while stirring it occasionally until the sauce has thickened up and remove it from the heat.

When the noodles are done cooking, strain them and pour the noodles into the sauce along with ½ cup of mozzarella, the cooked chicken, diced zucchini, frozen corn, and spinach that has been chopped or torn into bite-sized pieces. 

Mix everything together and then transfer it to the prepared 9×13 inch pan and spread it out evenly. 

After the chicken mixture is spread out in the dish, top it off with the remaining mozzarella cheese and parmesan cheese as evenly as you can. 

Then place it in the oven uncovered for about 20-25 minutes or until it has heated all the way through. 

Now just remove the dish and serve it with your favorite sides.   

To Make This Zucchini Recipe You Will Need:

1. Large skillet
2. 9×13 inch pan (THIS is a nice one that is also nonstick!)
3. Nonstick cooking spray
4. Spatula

Fresh Thyme or Dried

For this recipe we do tend to use fresh thyme as it works wonderfully, however if you do not have any, you can substitute it with ½ teaspoon of dried thyme instead. But, if you can get the fresh thyme I feel like it gives it even more flavor! 

If you are worried about wasting the rest of your fresh thyme before you can use it in another recipe, have you ever tried freezing or drying your herbs? 

Well, Gardener’s Supply Company gives you great instructions on how to freeze or dry your herbs depending on how you want to use them or which herb you are working with!

Serve this Chicken and Zucchini Recipe with Our Favorite Sides:

1. Texas Roadhouse Rolls Copycat Recipe
2. Creamy Yogurt Fresh Fruit Salad Recipe
3. Instant Pot Honey Glazed Carrots Recipe
4. Oven Roasted Green Beans Recipe