Nacho-Average Chicken Bake

Time :45

Yield :10 servings

Recipe Background

Want to "taco" 'bout how delicious this Tex-Mex bake is? Well, we sure do because we're pretty confident that this is Nacho-Average Chicken Bake! Tender chicken, melty cheese, juicy veggies, and lots of crunchy nacho cheese tortilla chips all come together to create a dish that's quite prize worthy. The flavors are no joke! Hopefully you like Nacho-Average Chicken Bake as much as we do because otherwise, this could get quite "gauc"-ward. Oh, we're just teasing! We know everyone's going to love it!

Ingredients

4 cups chicken cooked, cubed
1 pound processed cheese cubed
2 (10.75-ounce) cans condensed cream of chicken soup undiluted
1 (10-ounce) can diced tomatoes and green chiles undrained
1 cup onion chopped
1/2 teaspoon garlic salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1 (14.5-ounce) package nacho cheese tortilla chips crushed, divided
jalapeño peppers optional, to taste, sliced, for serving
tomatoes optional to taste, diced, for serving

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Grease a 13x9-inch baking dish.
In a large bowl, combine the chicken, the processed cheese, the cream of chicken soup, the diced tomatoes and green chiles, the onion, the garlic salt, and the pepper.
Add all but 1 cup of the crushed chips to the chicken mixture and mix to combine.
Spoon the chicken mixture into the prepared baking dish.
Sprinkle with the remaining chips.
Bake the casserole until the cheese has melted and the edges are bubbly, about 30 minutes.
Serve the bake with the jalapeños and the tomatoes.