Cheesy Chicken Green Bean Bake
Ingredients
- 1 cup white instant rice or brown instant rice
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper
- ½ teaspoon onion powder
- 1 can cream of chicken
- 1 cup cheddar cheese, shredded
- 1 can of French style green beans, drained
- 1 ½ cups chicken broth
- Extra cheddar cheese for topping
- 3 small chicken breasts
Instructions
- Heat oven to 375°F/190°C.
- In a casserole dish, combine rice, pepper, onion powder, cream of chicken, cheese, green beans and chicken stock. Mix until everything is combined.
- Lay chicken on top of the rice mixture. Space evenly.
- Cover with foil and bake for 50 minutes.
- Take off cover and top the chicken with more cheese. Bake uncovered for another 5 minutes or until cheese is melted.
- Enjoy!
Notes
Smart Points: 4 (with rice)
Smart Points : 2 (without rice)
(Divide into 8 equal portions)
This casserole when you take it out of the oven is a little soupy, but if you let it sit out for 10 minutes or longer it thickens up quite a bit.
Use Instant Rice not long grain or brown rice. The time in the instructions was meant for Instant rice. Using any other type of rice please cook longer.
Cook uncovered for 10 minutes to let the cheese melt.
Watch video on how to make it.
Drain the green beans.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 8
- Calories: 259
- Sugar: 1
- Fat: 10
- Saturated Fat: 4
- Carbohydrates: 14
- Fiber: 2
- Protein: 27
I know I’ve posted this recipe before, but this is an upgrade to one of my most favorite recipes ever! Chicken Cheese Hotdish!
My Dad has this hot dish that my whole family loves. It has chicken, green beans, cheese, and rice in it. It takes awhile to prepare because you have to brown the chicken and boil the rice, then bake it in the oven for 30 minutes. I was watching one of those videos on Tasty’s facebook page the other day ago, and they had this recipe called Cheesy Chicken Broccoli Bake. The video showed everything including the rice being cooked in one dish. How brilliant! I can use that idea to make my Dad’s casserole dish and sure enough it worked! It was still the same creamy cheesy casserole that everyone loves and I saved a couple of dishes and steps doing it that way. I’ll be using that method from now on.
I just love finding easier ways to make one of your favorite dishes!
Hi, do I need to cook the rice before adding it or do I add it uncooked?
You add everything uncooked and it all bakes in the oven.
Hi my rice was a little undercooked. What would you suggest?
Add some more milk to it or chicken broth.
Mine turned out watery , follow all the steps
Did you drain the can of green beans?
What is the size of the casserole dish that you use?
9X13
Can you possibly freeze leftovers?
I tried this with boneless skinless chicken thighs, and tweaked it with instant brown rice, with a few adjustments. It was really good, would definitely make again!
Good to know Instant rice works too!
Can we use fresh green beans if so how much
Hi! I’m excited to make this- curious how to do it with chicken cooked previously. I’m a little nervous about it all cooking through. Do you chop the chicken into small pieces regardless if uncooked or precooked? Thanks so much!
The one with broccoli is it cooked same except you Cook broccoli first ?
Can you use rotersary chicken .. could you use can peas in place of the green beans?
Yes and Yes….
Could I substitute rice for cauliflower rice? Not a huge rice eater…..
You probably could but I haven’t tested out the recipe with that yet. Good luck!
This has become a regular recipe in my rotation. The last time I made it I used cauliflower rice but forgot to decrease the liquid so it was way too runny. So I added back in the rice and cooked it another 40 minutes. so good.
Next time I will add the cauliflower rice and decrease the broth to maybe 3/4 cup
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Thanks Tina! It was one of my Dad’s old recipes and I adapted it to make it way easier!! 🙂
Could you make this in the crockpot i wonder?
I cooked this for the 50 minutes, and then had to up the temperature- my chicken was still pink when I took the foil off! Increased the temp to 400 and had to cook for another 30 minutes!!!! I put it in an 8×8 dish. Would have been helpful to have the dish size in the actual recipe and not the comments. Needless to say the kids had McDonald’s. Not happy.
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My picky teens loved this too. I used instant brown rice, 75% fat free cheese (Cabots) b/c my husband has a Pancreas disorder and cannot digest fats. This was so easy and delish! Thank you for sharing!
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