100% Food Storage: last grocery trip was November 2023. Today is March 9, 2024
I've posted one of our family favorite 'go to' recipes more than a few times on An American Housewife - the Spicy Chicken and Spinach one. But it's not actually spicy unless you want it to be by adjusting how much of a couple ingredients you use.
Basically it's really just a chicken and spinach dish - and not really a casserole either unless you choose to bake it. AND sometimes I make it 'creamy' by adding some cream cheese or sour cream and other times I don't.
Sounds confusing, but basically it's such a simple, quick and easy recipe, you can play with the ingredients and whether or not you feel like baking it.
Basically it's really just a chicken and spinach dish - and not really a casserole either unless you choose to bake it. AND sometimes I make it 'creamy' by adding some cream cheese or sour cream and other times I don't.
Sounds confusing, but basically it's such a simple, quick and easy recipe, you can play with the ingredients and whether or not you feel like baking it.
Food Storage Options:
Chicken - Freeze-dried (reconstituted), vegetarian chicken flavor, canned, home canned, or fresh
Spinach - dehydrated, fresh or freeze dried
Onions - freeze dried, dehydrated or fresh
Peppers - freeze dried, dehydrated or fresh
Butter - you can leave it out and not saute the peppers/onions if using dried or use canned butter or fresh
Cream Cheese - leave it out if you don't have it, or use some powdered if you wish
Tomatoes - canned, fresh or freeze-dried
Jalapenos - leave out if you wish, or use canned, fresh, dehydrated or freeze dried
Mushrooms - optional - fresh, frozen, freeze dried or dehydrated
Cheese is optional - fresh, freeze dried or frozen, thawed
Spicy Chicken and Spinach Casserole
3 cups cooked, diced chicken (I used pre-cooked turkey I had froze but canned works great in this!)
10 oz. spinach (frozen, thawed or use fresh and cook just enough to wilt it) (I used dried, from #10 can)
Peppers - green and yellow (I had fresh, frozen and dehydrated pieces)
Onions - about half a medium yellow onion or about 5-6 green onions, diced/chopped (I used dried, minced)
Butter to saute' the peppers and onions ( I used home canned butter with water to reconstitute, cook onions & peppers)
8 oz. cream cheese (I still had a block in the fridge as, unopened, lasts for months in your fridge)
14 oz. diced tomatoes or 1 1/2 cups prepared salsa (I used canned diced tomatoes)
1/3 cup jalapeno slices or mild yellow peppers depending on your spice level of choice (I used from a jar)
1 t cumin
1 t chili powder
1 cup grated cheddar cheese (left out)
Mushrooms (I used a pack I had in the freezer I had food sealed last Fall)
In a sprayed/greased casserole dish layer the spinach. Top with the chicken.
Saute' the peppers and onion in butter in a pan until tender and add the cream cheese. When melted, layer over the chicken.
Top with the salsa or the diced tomatoes, add the jalapenos or yellow peppers and spices.
Top with the cheese.
Bake in a preheated 350 oven for about 30 minutes or until heated through and the cheese is all melted. Can serve with sour cream if you wish or you can add the sour cream to the dish with the cream cheese.
3 cups cooked, diced chicken (I used pre-cooked turkey I had froze but canned works great in this!)
10 oz. spinach (frozen, thawed or use fresh and cook just enough to wilt it) (I used dried, from #10 can)
Peppers - green and yellow (I had fresh, frozen and dehydrated pieces)
Onions - about half a medium yellow onion or about 5-6 green onions, diced/chopped (I used dried, minced)
Butter to saute' the peppers and onions ( I used home canned butter with water to reconstitute, cook onions & peppers)
8 oz. cream cheese (I still had a block in the fridge as, unopened, lasts for months in your fridge)
14 oz. diced tomatoes or 1 1/2 cups prepared salsa (I used canned diced tomatoes)
1/3 cup jalapeno slices or mild yellow peppers depending on your spice level of choice (I used from a jar)
1 t cumin
1 t chili powder
1 cup grated cheddar cheese (left out)
Mushrooms (I used a pack I had in the freezer I had food sealed last Fall)
In a sprayed/greased casserole dish layer the spinach. Top with the chicken.
Saute' the peppers and onion in butter in a pan until tender and add the cream cheese. When melted, layer over the chicken.
Top with the salsa or the diced tomatoes, add the jalapenos or yellow peppers and spices.
Top with the cheese.
Bake in a preheated 350 oven for about 30 minutes or until heated through and the cheese is all melted. Can serve with sour cream if you wish or you can add the sour cream to the dish with the cream cheese.
Reconstituted the onion and spinach along with cooking the frozen peppers in a pan with some avocado oil and butter and a little water. Added the chicken, tomatoes, mushrooms. When it was all softened and simmering, added the rest of the ingredients. Warmed and served.
Didn't get a 'final' photo... I was hungry, it smelled great and I was ready to eat. Here is me heating it through.
