Ritz Cracker Chicken Casserole

This delicious Ritz Cracker Chicken Casserole with atom and creamy condiment is the cleanable comfortableness nutrient for immoderate occasion. Serve it for meal contiguous and ticker everyone travel backmost for seconds!

This is simply a delicious repast to marque up and vigor up erstwhile you are acceptable to eat. It’s a large meal to marque connected a acold time and service with blistery bread.

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What Makes Ritz Cracker Chicken Casserole So Good? 

A casserole whitethorn not beryllium the astir breathtaking meal option, but it is quick, cheap, and casual to make. Besides, if you take the close one, it tin beryllium awfully tasty.

This Ritz Cracker Chicken Casserole look combines chunks of tender chicken, creamy mushroom and chickenhearted soup, tangy sour cream, filling rice, and crunchy Ritz crackers into a delicious and convenient one-dish meal your household volition love. 

Why You Should Try This Ritz Cracker Chicken Casserole Recipe

Having different casserole look connected manus is ne'er a atrocious thing, particularly erstwhile it is arsenic tasty arsenic this one. Unlike different versions of this look that usage a ton of seasonings, this casserole is beauteous mild, which makes it large for mealtime with kids.

Adding the atom to this look helps to agelong the chickenhearted to provender much radical and makes the casserole casual to cut. Check retired the conception beneath for a fewer ways to alteration up the look for much variety. 

Cracker Topped Chicken and Rice Casserole Ingredients

To hole this recipe, you’ll need:

• Cooked chickenhearted – tin beryllium boiled, baked, pan-fried, oregon rotisserie chicken
• Chicken broth
• Minute Rice
• Sour cream
• Condensed pick of chickenhearted crockery oregon pick of mushroom crockery oregon 1 of each
• Chopped bulb sautéed (optional)
• Butter,
• Ritz crackers

You tin usage different instant atom brands similar Target’s Good & Gather oregon Walmart’s Great Value successful spot of Minute Rice. 

Club Crackers marque an fantabulous substitution for Ritz Crackers. 

How to Make Chicken Casserole With Ritz Crackers and Rice

To hole this casserole:

1. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Lightly grease oregon spray a 9 X 13-inch baking crockery with non-stick cooking spray.
2. Cut the chickenhearted into bite-sized pieces and spot them successful a ample bowl. Or usage shredded chickenhearted if you prefer.

3. Add chickenhearted broth, rice, sour cream, and 2 cans of creamed soup.

4. Add the sauteed onions, if using. Stir to combine.
5. Pour the chickenhearted substance into the prepared baking dish. Shake the baking crockery backmost and distant to dispersed retired the substance and popular immoderate bubbles. 
6. Bake connected the mediate rack successful the preheated oven for 20 minutes.  

7. While the casserole is successful the oven, melt the food successful a skillet implicit mean heat.
8. Crush Ritz crackers and spot the crushed crumbs into a mean bowl. Add the melted food and flip to coat. Reserve the coated crackers for later. 

9. After the casserole has been successful the oven for 20 minutes, region it and apical the filling with crumbled Ritz crackers. 

10. Return the casserole to the oven and cook for 15 much minutes, until the Ritz cracker topping is aureate brown.
11. Let the casserole chill for a fewer minutes connected a ligament rack earlier serving. Garnish with caller parsley if desired.

Recipe Variations

Casseroles are perfect for customizing. Here are 3 suggestions for this look that you whitethorn privation to play astir with:

• Ritz Cracker Chicken Casserole With Vegetables. Replace immoderate oregon each of the instant atom with a container of thawed mixed vegetables oregon peas. Chop up immoderate ample pieces. 
• Ritz Cracker Chicken Broccoli Casserole. Replace immoderate oregon each of the instant atom with chopped broccoli, 
• Cheesy Chicken Ritz Cracker Casserole, Swap retired 1 of the cans of creamed crockery for a tin of food soup. 

What to Serve With Chicken and Rice Casserole With Ritz Crackers

Since this casserole already includes rice, choosing a low-carb broadside crockery similar a caller salad, greenish beans, oregon a vessel of crockery is simply a bully idea. 

How to Store Chicken and Rice Casserole

Keep immoderate leftovers successful the casserole crockery and screen it with integrative wrapper oregon transportation them to an airtight container. Pop the crockery successful the refrigerator for up to 3 days.

If you privation to frost immoderate leftovers, adhd a furniture of aluminum foil connected apical of the integrative wrap. Keep the chickenhearted casserole with Ritz crackers and atom successful the freezer for up to a month. Thaw overnight successful the fridge earlier reheating. 

What Is the Best Way to Reheat This Casserole?

Heating leftover chickenhearted and atom casserole with Ritz crackers connected apical is easiest successful the oven:

1. Preheat the oven to 350°F.
2. Slice the casserole into serving portions and dispersed them retired connected the bottommost of a caller baking dish. Do not effort to reheat the casserole successful a acold baking dish. It volition instrumentality longer to vigor up, and the speedy somesthesia alteration tin ace the baking dish. 
3. Allow the casserole to beryllium retired for astir 10 minutes to lukewarm up a small earlier reheating. 
4. Cover the baking crockery with aluminum foil and vigor for 20 to 30 minutes. Start checking if the casserole is blistery capable aft 20 minutes. 

Favorite Dinner Casseroles

• Broccoli Tater Tot Casserole with Beef
• Cheesy Hash Brown Casserole with Ham
• Chicken Dressing Casserole
• Chicken Noodle Casserole
• Creamy Tuna Casserole
• Dorito Casserole
• Hamburger Corn Casserole
• Mexican Tater Tot Casserole
• Poppy Seed Chicken Casserole
• Shrimp Casserole

Popular Chicken Recipes

• Baked Chicken Parmesan
• Chicken Croquettes
• Cream Cheese Chicken

Check retired much of my casual casserole recipes and the champion chicken recipes connected CopyKat!

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Ritz Cracker Chicken Casserole

This look for chickenhearted and atom casserole features a buttery Ritz cracker crumb topping.

Course Main Course

Cuisine American

Keyword Chicken and Rice, Chicken Recipes

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 55 minutes

Total Time 1 hour 5 minutes

Servings 8

Calories 347kcal

Author Stephanie Manley

Ingredients

• 4 cups cooked chicken diced
• 3 cups chicken broth
• 2 cups Minute Rice
• 8 ounces sour cream
• 2 cans cream of chickenhearted oregon pick of mushroom soup or 1 of each
• 1 cup chopped onion sautéed (optional)
• 1 stick butter (4 ounces) melted
• 2 tubes Ritz crackers crushed

Instructions

• Preheat the oven to 350°F.
• Combine the chicken, chickenhearted broth, rice, sour cream, and soup.
• Add the sautéed onion, if using, and premix well.
• Transfer the substance to a greased 9×13-inch casserole crockery and cook for 20 minutes.
• Meanwhile, determination the melted food implicit the crushed crackers and premix until good coated.
• After the casserole has baked for 20 minutes, sprinkle the buttered crackers connected apical and cook for an further 15 minutes, until the crackers are browned and the casserole is bubbly.

Nutrition

Calories: 347kcal | Carbohydrates: 26g | Protein: 10g | Fat: 22g | Saturated Fat: 12g | Cholesterol: 67mg | Sodium: 1002mg | Potassium: 274mg | Fiber: 0g | Sugar: 2g | Vitamin A: 675IU | Vitamin C: 8.2mg | Calcium: 60mg | Iron: 2.5mg