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Green "Enchilada" Chicken Casserole




Source of Recipe


Linda Sue @ Low Carb Friends (see link below)


Recipe Introduction


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List of Ingredients




4 cups cubed cooked chicken or turkey
2 teaspoons Seasoning for Tacos
8 ounces cream cheese
1 tablespoon minced chives (optional)
7 ounce can Green Mexican Salsa (I use La Costeña brand)*
4 ounce can chopped green chiles
6 ounces Monterey jack cheese, shredded
4 green onions, chopped



Recipe



Grease an 11x7" baking pan. Put chicken in pan and toss with taco seasoning to coat. Soften cream cheese and whisk well with the chives and green sauce in a medium bowl. Stir in the chiles. Pour sauce evenly over chicken; top with cheese. Bake at 350º 25 minutes, until hot and bubbly. Remove from oven and immediately sprinkle with green onions.
Makes 6-8 servings

I decided to turn my Green Enchilada Chicken into a casserole and it was a hit. My husband raved about it and said it was nice and spicy.

* If you can't find that brand, it contains tomatillos, jalapeños, onion, salt, coriander (cilantro) and garlic. There are 10 carbs per 7 ounce can. A word of warning: I found what looked like the same La Costeña Green Mexican Salsa in a 16 ounce bottle, but when I read the label, I found that it contains modified starch. The same thing in small cans does not have any starch. Pretty much any green salsa or green enchilada sauce will work for this recipe, but some enchilada sauces contain starch and sugar.
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* Deb’s notes: The author of this recipe is Linda Sue and I recommend looking at her site! Her recipes get RAVE reviews. Please know though that she follows Atkins, so not all of her recipes are legal for Somersizing.

The only thing I did differently on this recipe was increased the cheese on top to 2 cups (you definitely don’t “need” that much though) and I covered it with foil while it baked to keep the cheese on top from getting dried out. I used a shredded Cheddar blend that I buy at Costco. I made it with chicken.

What I like to do is get a couple rotisserie chickens at Costco and remove all the meat while still warm (comes off a lot easier than letting the chicken cool). Then I freeze packs of this meat to use in recipes like this. Please know though that Costco rotisserie chickens do contain some sugar - but we've been eating them since day 1 and they didn't hinder our weight loss. I called Kirkland and was told that the amount of sugar is small, although they couldn't give me numbers.