Chicken Casserole & Half Recipe

This will be two recipes in one post. My grandma wrote out a chicken casserole recipe and right next to it is the half recipe. Looking at the numbers, a few things don't half perfectly, so there's a bit of a reason for it. The format will have the half recipe in parentheses instead of metric conversions this time, largely because there are some things I'm not sure how to convert to metric. Six different web sites had six different ideas of how much 1 cup of chopped onion weighs.

Of course, once you've baked the casserole, you can either pour the sauce over the whole thing or serve it on the side. You can always make more or less sauce. There is only one sauce recipe, and not a halved version.

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CHICKEN CASSEROLE

1 cup (1/2 cup) chopped onion
1 cup (1/2 cup) green pepper
1T (1T) butter

1 16oz. package herb dressing mix (1 8oz bag stuffing mix)
4 cups (2 cups) chicken broth
6 (3) eggs, slightly beaten
3 cans (2 cans) celery soup
8 cups (4 cups) diced chicken or turkey
3 cups (1½ cups) cooked rice
½ cup or 1 4oz. can (¼ cup) pimientos

Preheat oven to 325°F. Sauté onion and pepper in butter. Mix everything together and pour into 2 (1) 13"x9" greased baking dishes. Bake at 325°F for 50min.

Sauce
2 cans cream of chicken soup
½ cup milk
1 cup sour cream

Heat soup with milk. Add sour cream. Remove from heat.

Serves 24 (12).

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This is the first recipe in the books to have a serving size. I modified the format of this recipe and added in some things that are apparent if you do what you should and read through the recipe first (preheating the oven...). I don't always do that, so if it isn't earlier in the directions, I'll forget to do it (preheating the oven...).

You can add caseless sausage (think patty breakfast sausage or chorizo) to spice it up and add some different texture and flavor to the dish. I recommend long grain or brown rice rather than short grain rice.

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This blog is documentation of my late grandmother's handwritten recipes, as well as recipes I've come across or made up. There are no photos or images as my grandmother's recipe book didn't have any, except for ones she clipped from magazines, for example.

These recipes are free for all to use. Please enjoy them by yourself, with friends, with family, feeding the hungry, or in whatever way you wish.

God bless you all.