Tex Mex

King Ranch Chicken Casserole

Name: King Ranch Chicken Casserole
Total time: 1 h 5 min
Yield: 8 servings
Cuisine: Tex Mex
Ingredients: 4 cups cooked shredded chicken; 10 corn tortillas; 1 10.5 oz can condensed cream of chicken soup; 1 10.5 oz can condensed cream of mushroom soup; 10 oz diced tomatoes with green chiles; 1 onion; 1 green bell pepper; 3 garlic cloves; 1/2 cup chicken broth; 1 tsp ground cumin; 1 tsp chili powder; 2 cups shredded cheddar; 1 tbsp olive oil; 1 tsp salt; 1/2 tsp black pepper

Yesenia @yesenia_tejana

King Ranch Chicken Casserole is Tex Mex home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

65 min Medium Halal

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Serve it with

A Tex Mex dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside King Ranch Chicken Casserole, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The protein alongside
- Black Beans with Cumin and Lime
  
  15 min
What it is eaten with
- Refried Beans
  
  25 min
The sharp little thing
- Guacamole Casero
  
  15 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. King Ranch Chicken Casserole carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in King Ranch Chicken Casserole
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Carne Guisada
Gluten	Yes	Beef and Bean Tostadas
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 380 kcal
Protein: 24 g
Carbs: 26 g
Fat: 20 g
Fiber: 2 g
Sugar: 3 g
Sodium: 780 mg
Saturated fat: 9 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

King Ranch Chicken Casserole takes about 65 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.