Winner, winner – a super easy chicken dinner!
The Best Chicken Tetrazzini Recipe
When you’re cooking for a family, you can never have too many chicken recipes. Chicken is cheap, it’s healthy, and it’s easy to cook in lots of different ways. And chickens are easier on the environment than methane-burping cows, so you can pat yourself on the back for being kind to the earth as well.
Here’s one chicken recipe no busy cook should be without: Easy Chicken Tetrazzini. It’s a delicious, rich casserole with chicken, mushrooms, and pasta in a creamy, cheesy, savory sauce. And it only uses one pan (well, okay, and one mixing bowl), so there are fewer dishes to wash up.
If you’ve seen recipes for chicken tetrazzini before and thought it looked too complicated, don’t worry. We’re not going to mess around with sautéing fresh mushrooms or whipping up a béchamel sauce from scratch. We’re just going to open up a couple of cans of cream soup and whisk them together with sour cream, melted butter, chicken broth, and salt and pepper.
Then we’ll toss all that with the cooked pasta and chicken, top it with cheese, and bake it. And in 45 minutes, we’ll have a version of chicken tetrazzini that’s just as rich and savory as those fancy recipes, and with a lot less work.
How to Make Easy Chicken Tetrazzini
- Preheat oven to 350. Spray a 9×13 baking pan with non-stick cooking spray, set aside. In large bowl whisk together soups, sour cream, butter, chicken broth, salt and pepper until combined.
- Fold in your chicken until coated.
- Add your spaghetti and toss to combine, pour into prepared baking dish and sprinkle with your cheeses.
- Bake in oven for 40-45 minutes until cheese is melted. Remove from oven and sprinkle with parsley if desired.
Tools I used for this Easy Chicken Tetrazzini Recipe
Baking Dish: This dish is safe for microwave, oven, broiler and freezer. It’s also great for storing and reheating leftovers!
Whisk: This trusty whisk is great for many of my recipes!
Spaghetti Spoon: This Spaghetti Server lifts, portions and serves spaghetti, linguini and angel hair pasta.
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Easy Chicken Tetrazzini
Ingredients
- 1 lb spaghetti cooked
- 1 lb chicken cooked and chopped
- 10.5 oz can cream of chicken soup
- 10.5 oz can cream of mushroom soup
- 2 cups sour cream
- 1/2 cup butter melted
- 1/2 cup chicken broth
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp pepper
- 1 cup mozzarella cheese
- 1 cup cheddar cheese
- Parsley optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350.
- Spray a 9x13 baking pan with non-stick cooking spray, set aside. In large bowl whisk together soups, sour cream, butter, chicken broth, salt and pepper until combined.
- Fold in your chicken until coated.
- Add your spaghetti and toss to combine, pour into prepared baking dish and sprinkle with your cheeses.
- Bake in oven for 40-45 minutes until cheese is melted.
- Remove from oven and sprinkle with parsley if desired.
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Susan says
Tasty but WAY too much pasta. Cut it in half or back by a third. Prepared as instructed and it barely fit in my deep 13×9 dish.
Dawn Whittey says
This was a easy and awesome dish I added two cups of sliced mushrooms green onions and I browned my chicken with a clove of garlic along with the mushrooms before I put it in the the sauce 30 minutes in the oven was all so it wouldn’t dry out everyone loved it excellent recipe
Dawn Whittey says
Great recipe I add two cups of mushrooms the green onions and a clove of garlic when I sauteed my chicken it was awesome loved it
Joe says
I’ve made this recipe many times and it’s super easy and delicious. I live in the southwest and don’t want to fire up the oven. Has anyone made this in a slow cooker? If so, at what setting and for how long did you cook it?
Nikki says
My family enjoyed this recipe! The only changes I did was added a hand full of parmesan cheese and a 1/3 a cup of heavy cream.
Oh I also incorporated half the cheeses throughout the dish and added the rest in top.
Ashley Struckhoff says
Can you do this in the instant pot and how??
Corey says
I haven’t tried this recipe in the IP yet Ashley. Sorry.