This easy cheesy chicken and veggies dish is so simple and so delicious, it will hit your regular menu rotation. Great for times when you don’t want Chicken and Rice!
Simple Chicken and Vegetable Casserole
So easy to prepare and ready in no time at all plus it uses delicious zucchini and peppers and onions!
You’ll LOVE this Easy and Simple Chicken and Vegetable Casserole! What could be better than an easy cheesy chicken and veggies dish that comes together in minutes!
Here’s What You’ll Need
- Boneless/Skinless Cuts of Chicken
- Veggies
- Seasoning
- Cheese!
That’s a super easy and simple number of ingredients and satisfyingly delicious too!
Here’s How You Do It
It couldn’t be easier!
- Prepare the chicken and pre cook it.
- Place the chicken on the veggies.
- Top with Cheese and Tomatoes
- A little more cheese
- Bake!
Special Equipment
You won’t need any special equipment, but we do love this baking dish that I use a lot for this type of thing.
It isn’t pictured here, but it’s so wonderful for this because it has a nice lid and after dinner, if there are leftovers, simply put the lid on and pop it in the fridge, what could be easier?
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ’s)
This will last up to 5 days if kept covered in the fridge.
Yes! However, the veggies are very mush on reheating.
To reheat leftovers, simply place your baking dish in a 350 oven, covered and heat for 20 minutes. OR place individual servings in the microwave and heat in 1 minute increments.
Tips and Tricks
- Perhaps it goes without saying, but you will need an oven safe dish for baking. You can use a single pan for both the stove top job and the oven job if you use an oven safe frying pan.
- You might want to use that oven safe frying pan because it takes a few other dishes to coat the chicken.
- When you coat the chicken with bread crumbs, you might want to pat the crumbs onto the surface of the chicken to help them stick.
- Don’t try to put too many chicken pieces in the pan together at once. Then they don’t fry nicely and instead almost steam.
- To make faster work of this, you can use seasoned bread crumbs and then don’t worry about adding seasoning to the breadcrumbs.
Substitutions
Chicken Breast – Use any cut of chicken you prefer, just ensure that it is cooked to an internal temp of 165. We like boneless skinless chicken thighs at our house.
Cream Cheese – it’s fine to use the fat free or the neufchatel cheese!
Zucchini – try some yellow squash or softer veggies of your choice. If you want to use a “harder” veg like carrots, pre cook by blanching in hot water/broth first.
Onion – Onion powder makes a good substitution here, 1 tsp should do it.
Plain bread crumbs – try seasoned crumbs and you can leave off the added salt and paprika (or add it for more seasoning!).
Tomato – Use canned diced tomatoes if you don’t have fresh – 1 can
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Easy Chicken and Veggies
Ingredients
- 2 large chicken breasts or 4 small cut large breasts in half like a book opens
- 1 egg
- 1 Cup bread crumbs
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp pepper
- 1 tsp paprika
- 4 Tbsp olive oil
- 1 Zucchini cubed
- 1 onion course dice
- 1 to tomato course dice
- 1 red or green bell pepper course dice
- ½ block of cream cheese cut into pea sized pieces
- 1/2 Cup sharp cheddar
- 1/4 Cup parmesan
- ½ Cup mozzarella
- 5 Basil leaves cut chiffonade
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400
- Put heavy skillet on stove top and preheat to medium and place 2 Tbs of oil in the pan
- In a bowl, beat egg with 2 tbsp water
- In a separate bowl mix bread crumbs, salt, pepper and paprika.
- Use egg wash (egg water mixture) to wet the chicken breasts and then dredge them through the breading (pat the breading into and on the chicken breasts).
- Place only two breasts in the hot frying pan at a time and allow to sear on each side for 2-3 mins. Remove to a plate and then fry the other two breasts the same way.
- In the same hot pan, add two more Tbsp of oil and allow to heat. Add the onion, pepper, zucchini to the pan and cook until starting to soften – 2-3 mins. Add salt and pepper to taste.
- Place vegetables in the bottom of a 9×9 casserole dish or dish of equivalent size.
- Dot the cream cheese pieces around the vegetables. Sprinkle with ½ of the cheddar and the ½ the mozzarella cheese.
- Place the tomatoes on top of the cheese mix and sprinkle with the basil and the rest of the mozzarella cheese.
- Place chicken on top of the tomatoes and cheese and sprinkle with the remaining half of sharp cheddar and the parmesan.
- Sprinkle Dried Thyme over the top
- Bake at 400 for 20 mins or until the juices run clear.
Notes
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- Perhaps it goes without saying, but you will need an oven safe dish for baking. You can use a single pan for both the stove top job and the oven job if you use an oven safe frying pan.
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- You might want to use that oven safe frying pan because it takes a few other dishes to coat the chicken.
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- When you coat the chicken with bread crumbs, you might want to pat the crumbs onto the surface of the chicken to help them stick.
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- Don’t try to put too many chicken pieces in the pan together at once. Then they don’t fry nicely and instead almost steam.
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- To make faster work of this, you can use seasoned bread crumbs and then don’t worry about adding seasoning to the breadcrumbs.
Nutrition
***This post originally appeared on the pages of Loaves and Dishes on October 17, 2014. It has been updated with the following items: Story about the food removed and/or shortened, “Here’s how you do it”, “Here’s what you’ll need”, Special Equipment, Video segments, Tips and Tricks, Substitutions, Recipe Card updated to include, cost, equipment, nutrition, notes and substitutions.
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Moxie
Friday 2nd of February 2018
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