Texas Trash Chicken Casserole

30 mins
Serves 1
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Directions

  1. 1Start by covering the bottom of a 9x13 baking dish with enchilada sauce.
  2. 2Grab a can of your favorite refried beans and a scooping device.
  3. 3Ploop a scoop of these beans into the enchilada sauce.
  4. 4Actually, ploop as many scoops as you have chicken thighs.
  5. 5Then add a chicken thigh on top of each one of these scoops.
  6. 6Then season them with taco seasoning whether it's from a packet or a shaker, it doesn't matter, just cover them with taco seasoning.
  7. 7Get a mixing bowl, drop in a block of softened cream cheese.
  8. 8Add a can of diced green chilies.
  9. 9A cup of shredded cheese, whatever kind you want.
  10. 10A quarter cup of jarred salsa or the enchilada sauce from earlier, either one.
  11. 11A tablespoon of taco seasoning, then mix all of this together till it's beautifully combined.
  12. 12And when it is, get that scooper from earlier and ploop a scoop of this mixture onto each one of these chicken thighs like this.
  13. 13Once you have them all on there, go ahead and spread it out, just completely cover the chicken, actually.
  14. 14We don't want to be able to see it when we put it in the oven at 350 degrees for about 30 minutes.
  15. 15When it comes out, add a handful of cheese.
  16. 16And then put it back in the oven for a couple of minutes to melt the cheese and cook the chicken.
  17. 17When it comes out, it should be bubbly and beautiful like this.
  18. 18If you have green onions in your pocket, throw them on, make it look fancy.
  19. 19Get a bowl of homemade Spanish rice, put one of these chicken thighs on top.
  20. 20Add a little bit of sauce because it's delicious.
  21. 21Grab a fork, scoop up a big old bite of this and put the whole thing in your mouth.

Ingredients

  • chicken breast
  • enchilada sauce
  • 1 can refried beans
  • chicken thighs
  • taco seasoning
  • 1 block softened cream cheese
  • 1 can diced green chilies
  • 1 cup shredded cheese
  • 0.25 cup jarred salsa or enchilada sauce
  • 1 tablespoon taco seasoning
  • 1 handful cheese
  • green onions
  • homemade Spanish rice

Equipment

9x13 baking dishscooping devicemixing bowlovenfork