Chunky Blue Cheese Chicken Casserole Recipe- Finnish Food Girl

Chunky Blue Cheese Chicken Casserole Recipe

By Amanda January 14, 2014 Main Dishes 3 Comments

This chunky blue cheese chicken casserole recipe is just what the doctor ordered for combining blue cheese and chicken! Who doesn’t enjoy the tangy taste of fresh blue cheese? It’s not just for salads, you can also incorporate it into rices, sauces, and casseroles like this one.

If you are not a fan of blue cheese, you can also use shredded cheddar cheese. To make this recipe even quicker and easier, you can prepare the rice and chicken ahead of time (or use leftovers), and then just add a few more ingredients to the casserole dish before you put it in the oven. For an extra crispy crunch on the top of the casserole, top with toasted bread crumbs or croutons.

If you like your chicken spicy, sautee the chicken or add 3 tablespoons of Red Hot Sauce to the casserole before baking- to kick it up a notch!

Chunky Blue Cheese Chicken Casserole

Rating: 51

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 30 minutes

Total Time: 45 minutes

This chunky blue cheese chicken casserole is savory and delicious!

Ingredients

12 ounces pre-cooked brown rice (cooked in rice cooker)

2 tablespoons olive oil

1 onion, chopped

1 tablespoon minced garlic

2 pounds boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut into 1 inch cubes

1/4 cup flour

4 cups skim milk

Dash salt

3/4 cup crumbled blue cheese (about 4 ounces)

Directions

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Sautee onions and garlic in a medium skillet until tender.
If your chicken is not pre-cooked, then you need to also have a separate skillet set up and cook that until done.
Combine the rice, onions and garlic with the cooked chicken in a medium casserole dish.
Whisk flour, olive oil and milk in a medium bowl.
Add salt on top of the rice.
Pour milk and flour mixture on top of rice.
Top entire casserole with a generous portion of crumbled blue cheese.
Bake in oven for 30 minutes until the cheese is melted and the casserole is bubbling underneath.
Cool for ten minutes before serving.

Notes

For additional vegetables you can also add sauteed diced celery, carrots, or mushrooms to this recipe!

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Tagged on: Blue Cheese, Chicken, Flour, Garlic, Milk, Onions, Salt

3 thoughts on “Chunky Blue Cheese Chicken Casserole Recipe”

Hal September 30, 2015 at 2:21 am

Tried this the other day, and while tasty it came out VERY runny. I’m planning to try again, but before doing so — is the 4 cups milk a typo? Seems like an awful lot of liquid with the rice being pre-cooked.

Thanks!

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1. Amanda Post authorSeptember 30, 2015 at 11:40 pm
  
  Hi Tristessa,
  It should not be that runny, are you sure you mixed the milk with the flour before pouring it over the rest of the ingredients? If it is too liquidy you can decrease the milk.
  
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  1. Hal October 1, 2015 at 4:18 am
    
    I did mix the milk with the flour, will try decreasing the milk next time. Thanks!
    
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