I tasted the chicken casserole an officemate brought to the office on time. His mom cooked it for his birthday ‘libre’ for us. I really liked it and was curious so I asked him to give me the recipe. He said his mom just got it from a magazine. Because I cook for me and JM as well as other people, I had to tweak the recipe.
Ingredients:
- 350 g shell macaroni (his mom used penne when she cooked it so i suppose that or fusili or rotini should be fine)
- diced chicken breasts (not sure how many grams, I threw the pack away
sorry! but should be enough to be used for 350 g of macaroni) - 1 can condensed cream of mushroom soup
- 1 large onion, finely chopped
- 1 medium sized green bell pepper, finely chopped
- half a bar of regular processed cheese, grated
- 2-4 tablespoons of butter
- 1 small pack Del Monte tomato catsup
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions:
- Cook the macaroni (or whatever pasta you’re cooking) according to the instructions on the pack. Set it aside.
- Melt butter in pan. Sautee the finely chopped onion and bellpepper.
- Stirfry the chicken with the onion and bellpper.
- Add the condensed cream of mushroom soup, ketchup and grated cheese. Mix it well. Let it simmer.
- Add salt and pepper to taste.
- Add the macaroni. Mix it well.
- Cook it on the stove until it is ‘baked’
Make sure you use an aluminum foil to cover it until it gets ‘baked’
In my case, I didn’t have aluminum foil so I put the mixture in a microwavable container and made sure I buttered the sides of the container. I let it stay in the microwave for 6 minutes using Med-High settings. It became a bit baked. During the first attempt, I mixed in tomato sauce, not tomato catsup. It wasn’t quite enough to taste as well as my officemate’s mom’s cooking. Today, he said that it lacked some catsup but suited him. Another co-worker suggested I could add more cheese. So, there. Please feel free to check it out and if you find that other variations on the recipe taste well too, let me know 
I’d love to know what you did with your chicken casserole.
