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Home, sweet home! That's what this Easy Chicken & Rice Bake feels like as its aroma permeates throughout your home, each and every time it visits your oven. And we say "each" and "every" because this tender, rice-packed, chicken-grinning, sauce-enveloped, crushed-potato-chip-topped, comfort-piece will be on repeat for as long as your apron strings tie together. Nothing says home like the home-cooked and memorable Easy Chicken & Rice Bake. Your family knows the goodness that awaits them when that beloved, baked-with-love dinner bell rings! Welcome home, our loves, welcome home!
Home, sweet home! That's what this Easy Chicken & Rice Bake feels like as its aroma permeates throughout your home, each and every time it visits your oven. And we say "each" and "every" because this tender, rice-packed, chicken-grinning, sauce-enveloped, crushed-potato-chip-topped, comfort-piece will be on repeat for as long as your apron strings tie together. Nothing says home like the home-cooked and memorable Easy Chicken & Rice Bake. Your family knows the goodness that awaits them when that beloved, baked-with-love dinner bell rings! Welcome home, our loves, welcome home!
Ingredients
- 4 cups white rice or a combination of wild and white rice cooked
- 4 cups chicken cooked and diced
- 1/2 cup almonds slivered
- 1 small onion chopped
- 1 (8-ounce) can sliced water chestnuts drained
- 1 (10-ounce) package frozen peas thawed
- 3/4 cup celery chopped
- 1 (10.75-ounce) can condensed cream of celery soup undiluted
- 1 (10.75-ounce) can condensed cream of chicken soup undiluted
- 1 cup mayonnaise
- 2 teaspoons lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups potato chips crushed
- paprika to taste
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- Grease a 9x13-inch baking dish.
- In a large bowl, add the rice, the chicken, the almonds, the onion, the water chestnuts, the peas, and the celery and stir to combine.
- In another large bowl, add the cream of celery soup, the cream of chicken soup, the mayonnaise, the lemon juice, and the salt and stir to combine.
- Add the soup mixture to the rice mixture and toss to coat.
- Transfer the combined rice mixture to the prepared baking dish and evenly sprinkle with the crushed potato chips and the paprika.
- Bake the casserole, uncovered, until it is heated through, about 1 hour.
- Serve.
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