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This Rotisserie Chicken Casserole is the perfect quick dinner recipe. Made with a juicy rotisserie chicken and topped with buttery Ritz crackers, everyone will love this casserole!
This Rotisserie Chicken Casserole is the perfect way to turn a store-bought rotisserie chicken into a warm, comforting dinner with almost no effort. It’s creamy, cheesy, and packed with flavor, making it an easy weeknight meal the whole family will love. Using pre-cooked chicken means this casserole comes together fast, so you can have dinner on the table without spending hours in the kitchen.
Why This Recipe Works
No cooking the chicken. A store-bought rotisserie chicken does the hard part for you, making this one of the fastest casseroles you can put together.
Creamy, cheesy base. The soup and sour cream make it rich and comforting, the kind of dish your family will ask for again.
Buttery cracker topping. Crushed Ritz and melted butter bake up golden and crisp, adding crunch to every bite.
Ingredient Notes:
- Rotisserie Chicken: you can use any cooked and shredded chicken.
- Cream of Chicken Soup
- Sour Cream
- Seasoning: onion powder, garlic powder, salt, and pepper.
- Ritz Crackers: that have been crushed
- Butter: unsalted and melted
Directions:
Shred: Pull the meat off a rotisserie chicken, discarding the bones and skin, then shred it into bite-sized pieces.
Recipe Tip
Shred the chicken while it’s still slightly warm, since the meat pulls apart much easier than once cooled. Your hands work faster than two forks for a whole chicken, and let you feel for small bones along the way. Pull the meat along the natural grain of the muscle rather than across it for cleaner shreds.
Preheat: Heat your oven to 350°F and coat a 2-quart casserole dish with nonstick cooking spray.
Combine: Stir the shredded chicken together with the cream of chicken soup, sour cream, and seasonings until everything’s evenly coated, then spread it into the bottom of your prepared dish.
Layer: Scatter the crushed Ritz crackers over the top and drizzle with the melted butter so every corner gets some.
Bake: Slide the casserole into the oven for 20-30 minutes, until the topping turns golden. Pull it out, let it rest a couple minutes, then serve.
How to store this casserole:
This casserole needs to be stored in the refrigerator once baked.
Transfer it into an air-tight container or keep it in the casserole dish and cover it with plastic wrap.
It will last in the refrigerator for about 3 to 4 days.
Can you freeze this casserole:
Prep: Yes, you can freeze this casserole. Follow the directions and make the casserole as instructed. Once the casserole is done, allow it to fully cool.
Freeze: I find it best to cook it in one of my casserole dishes that have a lid.
Once the dish is cool, put the lid on it and freeze in the freezer. It will last up to 3 months in the freezer.
What to serve with this casserole:
I think a good old-fashioned salad goes great with this dinner.
You can try a variety of different salads or other veggies to serve with this.
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Rotisserie Chicken Casserole
Ingredients
- 1 Rotisserie chicken
- 10.5 oz cream of chicken soup
- 1 cup sour cream
- ½ teaspoon onion powder
- ¼ teaspoon garlic powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt, or to taste
- ⅛ teaspoon pepper, or to taste
- 1 sleeve Ritz crackers, crushed
- 6 tablespoons butter, melted
Instructions
- Pull apart Rotisserie chicken from bones and skin. Shred chicken meat and set aside.
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. Prepare a 2 quart casserole dish with nonstick cooking spray and set aside.
- Mix Rotisserie chicken with cream of chicken soup, sour cream, and seasonings. Add to the bottom of your prepared casserole dish.
- Top your casserole with crushed crackers and melted butter.
- Place in the oven to bake for 20-30 minutes. Remove from the oven, serve, and enjoy.
I made this simple easy recipe and it was DELICIOUS!!
Thanks Pam!
I cook this all the time. I add water chestnuts, early peas, and sometimes cheddar cheese. I have also added cream cheese. So many ways to change this basic recipe. Delicious
Great additions!
I made this last night for dinner and it was DELICIOUS!!!!!
Thank you Janne!
I just got done putting this in the oven. Only thing different is I added frozen broccoli and baked it for 30 minutes
Easy to make and delicious. I added frozen peas and carrots and baked for a full 30 minutes.
Have you ever tried vegetables in it?