Simple chicken casserole

Rating:

Average: 5 (1 vote)

Serves: 4
Time to make: 50 mins, prep 10 mins, cook 40
Total cost: $12.72 / $3.18 per serve
(at time of publication)

Dairy free Diabetes friendly Low fat Low kilojoule Low sodium High protein

Ingredients
Nutrition info.

Full ingredients list:

1 teaspoon cooking oil
1 onion, finely chopped
600g chicken breast fillets, diced
2 carrots, peeled, sliced
8 medium mushrooms, sliced
1 teaspoon mixed dried herbs
2 cups reduced-salt chicken stock
400g can no-added-salt chopped tomatoes
2 teaspoons sugar
2 tablespoons flour
2 tablespoons no-added-salt tomato paste

Nutritional information (per serve)

Kilojoules:

1,280kJ

Calories:

306cal

Protein:

35.8g

Total fat:

10g

Saturated fat:

2.7g

Carbohydrates:

15.8g

Sugars:

Dietary fibre:

3.7g

Sodium:

428mg

Calcium:

56mg

Iron:

2.1mg

Instructions

Instructions and steps:

Step 1 Heat oil in a large frying pan over high heat and cook onion until softened. Add chicken and cook until browned.

Step 2 Add remaining ingredients and bring to the boil. Reduce heat to low, cover and simmer for 35 minutes. Season to taste and garnish with parsley, if desired.

Variations

This tasty chicken casserole is great as it is, and with only a few tweaks, can be transformed into three different meals! Make 2-3 batches of the base casserole and freeze. Defrost as needed to prepare these variations:

Potato-topped chicken pie
Chicken pizza
Spicy chicken and chickpeas