It’s a family favorite. It’s a classic. You can make this chicken tetrazzini using my easy to make recipe.
We’re eating our way through family favorites and trying out new dishes too. It depends on who is cooking!
We all know how to cook; we don’t all routinely prepare our meals but we do pitch in.
a family favorite
One of our favorite dishes is chicken tetrazzini. It’s an easy recipe to make and we all love it! Jim’s turn to cook dinner was up. He needed the recipe. Since I’ve made it so much over the years, I typically prepare it from memory.
Do you have recipes like that?
The simplest side dish is canned peaches. Typically, kids really like them usually. A friend called them and boxed mac and cheese part of the orange food group!
Other options for side dishes might be cut up fruit is good, adding a like sweet to the savory. If I want to make the meal special I would add more than one side. Other options are baked fruit, green salad and broccoli.
Preparation tips
You only need one larger pot, a big, big mixing bowl, a small skillet and 2 baking dishes. Grab the foil for covering the casseroles while baking. A nice big bowl for stirring is great but if you don’t have one, stir all ingredients together except the spaghetti. Divide the spaghetti into the lightly greased baking dishes first then add the mixture on top. Then poke your spoon in the dish at different spots and giving it gentle mix to incoporate the mixed. spaghetti together.
Sprinkle cheese on the top. Put the foil to cover the dish. Try not to press it down on the cheese top. It makes a mess and all that lovely cheese may be lost to the foil!
Doesn’t it look delicious?
don’t want canned soup?
For our years in China, I made the soup from scratch. We would rarely find the canned variety in the local ‘international’ shop.
The basic cream soup recipe is a roux with milk and seasonings.
I used unsweetened yogurt in lieu of sour cream or made the sour cream with heavy cream and white vinegar. When you live where options can be limited, you learn all sorts of way to make those dishes that are a touch of back home.
Here is the recipe. Hope you enjoy it as much as our family and guests do.
Chicken Tetrazzini
Equipment
- Pot, large bowl, 2 8×11 baking dishes, cutting board, small saute skillet, foil to cover baking dishes
Ingredients
- 1 box /16 oz thin spaghetti
- 1/2 cup reserved chicken broth
- 4 cups cooked chopped chicken breast cut prior to cooking, reserve the water
- 1 10 3/4 oz can cream of mushroom you need 3 cans of the cream soups but often I only use mushroom if that's all I have on hand.
- 1 10 3/4 oz can of cream of chicken
- 1 10 3/4 ox can of celery
- 8 oz container of sour cream
- 6 oz sauted sliced mushrooms substitue:drained canned slice mushrooms
- 1/2c cup shredded or grated Parmesan cheese
- 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese Set aside 1 cup to add on the casserole before baking
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp pepper
Instructions
- Cook cubed chicken breasts in large pot, reserve the water in the pot for cooking the spaghetti
- Cook spaghetti in the same pot and reserved water used for the chicken according to box instructionsSautie sliced mushrooms
- Set aside 1/2 cup of chicken broth from the pot
- Drian the noodles then toss with reserved 1/2 chicken broth
- Mix all ingedients except the spaghetti and the 1 cup of cheedar cheese together
- Add spaghetti and toss well
- Split mixture into lightly greased baking dishes. Sprinkle evenly with cheese.
- Bake covered at 350 for 35 minutes; uncover and bake 5 more mintues until cheese is melted
- Freezes well! I freeze one for later unless we have company. Suggested side dishes are salad with a vinaigrette , broccoli, sliced canned peaches, baked mixed fruits.
Hope you enjoy this as much as my family does! Freeze the second one for another day. If there are any leftovers, it’s a delicious lunch to pop in the microwave the next day.
Wow! This looks scrumptious! Thanks for sharing!
I love to try this recipe, it looks so delicious.
You’ll like it