Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Chicken tortilla casserole

Cooking, what't that? I could count on 2 hands how many times I've cooked from scratch in the last month. I cannot stand to look at another pizza slice or hamburger so yesterday, I looked up an easy recipe involving cream cheese, chicken and tortillas.

What you need:
3 tortillas - 8-10 inch rounds
shredded chicken - about 3 cups (I used 2 cans of cooked chicken total 25 ounces)
1 can diced tomatoes drained
1 can black beans rinsed and drained
the recipe asked for 2 green onions chopped but I didn't have any so I used 1 medium white onion chopped
1 container Kraft Philly cooking creme (for future, I think cream cheese blended with some sour cream, salt, pepper, and any spices you like would be good too)
3/4 cups shredded Mexican blend cheese

What you do:
Mix the chicken, beans, tomatoes and onion well. Add 3/4 of the spread to the mix.

Spread 1/3 of the mix into a pie pan, cover with 1 tortilla.

Spread another 1/3rd of the mix on top of the tortilla and then spread 1/ cup of the shredded cheese and cover with 1 tortilla. Repeat this step again.

Cover with remaining Philly creme and then the cheese.
Bake at 375, covered, for 20 minutes and then uncovered for 5 minutes.

Cut into pie wedges and enjoy!

You can see their image at the site; here are mine. It tasted pretty good, I would have added hot peppers to the mix. A salad would have been nice because the meal itself is very rich ad heavy.