World's Best Chicken Casserole is another "throw together" casserole. All very similiar, correct? Yes, correct. I mean I have said before that you could, literally, eat a casserole like this for supper in an Amish home for 365 days straight and never eat the exact same thing but eat something similar. There are just so many variations on these one-pan, throw-together meals. Some involve canned soups, some don't. Some involve Velveeta cheese, some day. Some have mushrooms, some don't. There are just a gazillion combinations of variations and ingredients,
I think what makes World's Best Chicken Casserole casserole "unique" (none of them are truly unique, they just have individual tweaks and differences) is the crumb topping of this one. So good. I love a bit of crunch to my casserole and this delivers.
The chicken in this can be diced, shredded, chunked, I think I'd prefer just big pieces, but you can do it however you want. Load it up with chicken, but you can adjust the proportions how you have like. Just don't change the crunchy, buttery topping!
The noodles in this, well, you can use store-bought, but most Amish cooks would use a homemade noodles and it really does make a difference when you use fresh, homemade ingredients versus bought. But for most of us, bought is the route we'll go.
These casseroles part of a rich tradition of hearty "throw together" meals that are popular in Amish homes. They feed largely families quickly and cheapy and, mmmm,nothing better than a heaping helping of this on a cold winter's night or a summer Sunday.
This casserole recipe comes to us from Alma Miller, an Amish woman in Ohio. I've met her before and she whips up some fine casseroles in the hill country of Holmes County.
🍲 World's Best Chicken Casserole Ingredients
- 1 chicken, 2 - 3 pounds
- 1 /2 cup chopped green peppers or 1 /2 cup chopped onions
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 10 ounces of noodles
- 1 can of mushrooms
- 1 1 /2 cups of shredded cheese
- 1 cup of buttered bread crumbs
📋 Ingredients
- Cook chicken and remove from bones. Save broth.
- Cook noodles in broth until soupy.
- Pour noodles and broth into a 10 X 13 buttered casserole.
- Add chicken, peppers, mushrooms and cheese.
- Top with buttered bread crumbs
- Bake at 350 for 90 minutes.
🍗 More Amish Chicken Casseroles
Gloria's Cheat Chicken Casserole - So good!
Farmhouse Chicken Macaroni Casserole - Wow!
Church Committee's Chicken Casserole - Super good!
Famous Chicken and Rice - Another hearty one!
🖨️ Full Recipe
Alma Miller's World's Best Chicken Casserole
Ingredients
- chicken, 2 - 3 pounds
- 1 /2 cup chopped green peppers
- 1 /2 cup chopped onions
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 10 ounces noodles
- 1 can mushrooms
- 1 ½ cups shredded cheese
- 1 cup buttered bread crumbs
Instructions
- Cook chicken and remove from bones. Save broth
- Cook noodles in broth until soupy and pour noodles into a 10 X 13 buttered casserole.
- Add chicken, peppers, mushrooms and cheese.
- Top with buttered bread crumbs
- Bake at 350 for 90 minutes.
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