Easy Chicken Tetrazzini
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.
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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.
Easy Chicken Tetrazzini
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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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Nutrition
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Instead of sour cream can you use plain yogurt instead
This is my go to recipe for chicken tetrazzini! My wife absolutely loves it. Thank you!
(Once I had to substitute the chicken broth for bouillon chicken broth and if anyone has to do that I suggest using half the amount of salt, but if you have everything just follow this amazing recipe to a tee!)
I had company and made this recipe. Would like to know if it freezes well. If so do you cook it first?
Yes this freezes well. You can pre plan your menu for the week ahead of time with this dish. Pop it in the fridg from the freezer before you leave work so it won’t take so long to bake once you get home. This saves a lot of time when you are having a busy week at work.
I used Linguine noodles and only baked for 30 minutes. Came out perfect, moist and creamy. I cut the chicken into smaller bits than shown. Absolutely delicious
Made this tonight for dinner, was super easy and very good.