{"id":331,"date":"2011-02-03T17:52:34","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T06:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/?p=331"},"modified":"2015-11-24T10:04:31","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T23:04:31","slug":"cheesy-chicken-casserole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/2011\/02\/cheesy-chicken-casserole\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheesy Chicken Casserole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another result of fun-in-the-kitchen experimentation. An original recipe that worked out very well, if I do say so myself! Has a big tick from my Mum &amp; Dad, who had it with me for lunch. Note: We managed to eat it all before I remembered to take a photo with the cheese on top &gt;_&lt; But you can imagine, right? :-P :-)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/cheesychickencasserole.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-332\" title=\"cheesychickencasserole\" src=\"\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/cheesychickencasserole-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Cheesy Chicken Casserole\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/cheesychickencasserole-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/cheesychickencasserole.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ingredients (Serves 3-4 &#8211; can be prepared the day before and heated in oven later)<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>200g shitake mushrooms, coarsely chopped<\/li>\n<li>1 250g packet of Uncle Ben&#8217;s Wholegrain Mediterranean Express Rice (see note below for other options)<\/li>\n<li>250g of chicken, sliced into thin strips<\/li>\n<li>1 can of pureed tomatoes<\/li>\n<li>2 tsp butter<\/li>\n<li>2 cups vegetable stock<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp season-all (I used Masterfoods brand)<\/li>\n<li>2 tsp salt<\/li>\n<li>2 tsp pepper<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp dill, finely chopped (I used Masterfoods brand)<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp basil leaves, finely chopped (I used Masterfoods brand)<\/li>\n<li>1.5 cups of frozen-fresh grated pizza cheese (I used Perfect Italiano Pizza Plus Cheese)<\/li>\n<li>2 tsp extra virgin olive oil<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Directions<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Preheat the oven to 180\u00c2\u00b0C.<\/li>\n<li>Lightly spray a fry pan with oil and lightly brown the chicken strips all over on medium-low heat, stir occasionally and seasoning with dill and season-all.<\/li>\n<li>In the meantime, heat the express rice for 90 secs and put aside.<\/li>\n<li>Put cooked chicken aside. Spread cooked rice onto the bottom of a deep casserole dish with a lid.<\/li>\n<li>Fry shitake mushrooms with the butter and 1 tsp salt over medium-high heat, stirring occasionally.<\/li>\n<li>When mushrooms are browned, pour in tomato puree and add remaining salt, pepper and basil. Cook for 1 minute, stirring occasionally.<\/li>\n<li>Take tomato mixture off heat. Add chicken and stir, then pour over rice in casserole dish.<\/li>\n<li>Pour all of the stock into the casserole dish and mix well.<\/li>\n<li>Top the casserole with pizza cheese, spread out evenly to cover the whole dish.<\/li>\n<li>Place lid over casserole dish, and cook in the oven for about 20 to 25 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Serve, with a light salad if desired.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Note<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Instead of the packet of Uncle Ben&#8217;s Wholegrain Mediterranean Express Rice, you can use another kind of tomato-flavoured rice (e.g., tomato &amp; basil instant rice), or just plain brown rice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another result of fun-in-the-kitchen experimentation. An original recipe that worked out very well, if I do say so myself! Has a big tick from my Mum &amp; Dad, who had it with me for lunch. Note: We managed to eat it all before I remembered to take a photo with the cheese on top &gt;_&lt; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,12,5],"tags":[24,52,26,14,46],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mains","category-recipes","category-savouries","tag-chicken","tag-gluten-free","tag-oven-baked","tag-pan-fried","tag-rice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491,"href":"https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions\/491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}