This delicious homemade stuffing chicken bake is sure to become a staple in your house. Made with chicken, butter, crusty bread, broth, veggies, and cheese it is a simple meal to throw together. I hope that your family loves it as much as my family does.
I am so excited to share this homemade stuffing chicken bake recipe with you! With ingredients that you probably have in the house it is a simple dish to throw together and pop in the oven.
A little back story on the inspiration for this meal ( I won’t be offended if you just jump to the recipe 😉 ). Way back when, when Matt and I first got married, I had to really learn how to cook. Sure I knew how to make some simple dinners, but I had never really meal planned (which I now love-ish to do). I’ll admit, some of my meals didn’t quite hit the mark. One dinner that was pretty good was stove top stuffing chicken bake (the recipe can be found on the box of stuffing). Well, as the years went on, and I improved my cooking game, that dinner just didn’t quite cut it anymore. So I stopped making it.
Fast forward to now.
I’m milling my own flour, baking my own bread, and getting into sourdough. When you bake enough bread you start ending up with extra that is getting stale. Instead of tossing it I cube it up and throw it in a bag in the freezer. I realized I could probably make my own homemade stuffing chicken bake using that bread, so this recipe was born.
Ingredients:
- raw chicken breasts: I opted for chicken breasts to keep the dish a little healthier. It would also taste great with boneless thighs, or a combination of breast and thigh meat.
- crusty bread: sourdough, Italian, French.. any sort of crusty bread works great in this recipe. I used old sourdough bread that I had been saving in the freezer.
- butter: to sauté the vegetables and give the dish flavor
- celery and onions: aromatics that add flavor
- frozen mixed veggies: to help bulk up the casserole even more
- broth: chicken, turkey, or vegetable. If you have the time, try making your own broth, it really adds depth
- cheese: life is just better with cheese
How to make homemade chicken stuffing bake
Cook your chicken in your preferred way. I like to season mine with salt and pepper and cook them in instant pot, then cut into cubes or shred.
Melt the butter in a stock pot. While the butter is melting dice up your celery and onions. You are going to want once cup of each, which is about a medium onion and three celery stalks. Sauté the onion and celery in the butter until it is crisp tender.
Add the cubed bread to the same pot and mix. Then add the broth. If you can try this recipe with homemade broth as it really ups the ante. We had left over turkey stock in the freezer that I used and it turned out so delicious.
After the broth has been added stir in the chicken, then add the frozen veggies.
Finally, mix in the cheese then spread between two 9 X13 pans. Cover and bake for 30 minutes at 350°F.
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Ingredients
Method
- Preheat oven to 350℉.
- Cook the chicken breast your preferred way. I like to put mine in the instant pot, since it can be done quickly. Once the chicken is done dice or shredded and put the the side.
- Melt the butter in a large stock pot. Then add the celery and onions and cook until softened.
- Add the cubbed bread and mix.
- Add the cooked chicken and stir.
- Mix in the chicken broth and stir so that everything is coated.
- Stir in the cheddar cheese.
- Pour into two 9 X13 pans.
- Cover with tin foil and bake for 30 minutes.
