Chicken and Smothered Okra Casserole – $5.00 Dinner Mom Cookbook Giveaway!
CONGRATULATIONS TO Libby Rouse and Kristeen (of The Gough Inn) on winning the $5.00 Dinner Mom Cookbook Giveaway! Please email your mailing addresses to me at service@southernplate.com and I’ll get those right out to you!
I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. I know we sure did. My in laws came for a nice long visit and it was really amazing to have grandparents here to watch the kids open gifts Christmas morning. I hope we can make a regular tradition out of it! I want to thank you for all of your comments on my Christmas Video Post. I was stunned at the number and each one that came in meant so much to us. I get an email on my phone every time som
eone posts a comment and with each one I’d stop what I was doing and read it to whoever was with me at the time. I can’t tell you how much that added to our holidays, receiving such kindness from such wonderful people. Thank you from myself, my kids (who enjoyed the comments every bit as much as we did), and my husband. I don’t know what we did to have such wonderful folks in our lives but I sure do hope to keep you here!
Today we have a special guest blogger, Erin Chase, from 5dollardinners.com. She is a mom blogger who has written a great new cookbook that I know you’ll enjoy, The $5 Dinner Mom Cookbook: 200 Recipes for Quick, Delicious, and Nourishing Meals That Are Easy on the Budget and a Snap to Prepare
Thanks to Erin, two lucky Southern Plate readers will be winning copies of her cookbook as well, to enjoy as much as my mother and I have! To enter, simply leave a comment below. I’ll draw two winners this Friday and announce them on this post as well as on the Southern Plate Family Page on Facebook. Here is just a sampling of her good cooking and I think I’m heading out to the grocery store here in a bit so we can have this tonight!
Chicken and Smothered Okra Casserole
Serves 8
Ingredients
- 1 ½ pounds chicken tenderloins ($2.82)
- 2-3 tsp Cajun seasoning ($.10)
- 1 tsp garlic powder ($.02)
- ½ tsp salt and pepper, each
- 1- 16 ounce bag of Gumbo mixed vegetables, including okra and red peppers ($1)
- 2- 15 ounce cans of diced tomatoes, drained ($1.30)
- 1 tsp garlic powder ($.02)
- 1 tsp salt and pepper, each
- 2 ounces Velveeta cheese, cubed ($.50) or 1 cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese ($.75)
- 1 loaf French bread, sliced ($.99)
- Butter ($.10)
Directions
1. Preheat oven to 350. Grease a 9×13-inch glass baking dish.
2. Place chicken tenderloins into greased baking dish. Season with Cajun seasoning, garlic powder, salt and pepper.
3. In a medium saucepan, combine the Gumbo style mixed vegetables with the 2 cans of diced tomatoes.
Season with garlic powder, salt and pepper.
Cook over high heat for 3-4 minutes, stir often.
4. Pour diced tomatoes and vegetables over the chicken tenderloins in the baking dish.
5. Scatter ¼ inch cubes of Velveeta over the top of the vegetables. (Or sprinkle shredded cheese over the top.)
6. Bake in preheated oven for 25 to 30 minutes, or until chicken tenderloins have cooked through and sauce is bubbly.
7. Warm French bread and serve with butter.
8. Serve Chicken and Smothered Okra Casserole with Buttery French Bread.
Cost $6.85 for 8 people (Well under my $5 for 4 people budget!)
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I really enjoy okra but have never thought about a casserole like this, can’t wait to try!
Sounds yummy!!!! I bought the book for myself as a Christmas present but my Mom is now reading it and wants a copy for herself! Hope I win so I can make that happen!
I can’t promise you I’ll make this dish (not an okra fan), I would sure love to win this cookbook. I bet it’s just filled with great ideas. I think this casserole would be great with a different vegetable blend as well.
The only way my family likes okra is fried, but I think this recipe may change their minds. And with my husband losing his job recently, the fact that it’s economical makes it even better. Thanks.
i really dont like okra, but I think the rest of the family will LOVE this recipe- Thanks for posting it!
This looks very yummy and the cook book looks great too! We are on a tight budget and that would help! And now, instead of cooking for 2 I am cooking for 1. My hubby just had surgery and will be on a strict specific diet for awhile…Can’t wait to make the recipe!
This looks like a great cookbook!
OH CHRISTY I WOULD JUST LOVE THIS COOKBOOK. IF IT’S GOT OKRA ON IT I AM ON BOARD!! I HAVE A HUSBAND WHO IS DISABLED AND I CARE FOR HIM SO DISABILITY DON’T PAY MUCH AND WE HAVE 2 CHILDREN AT HOME AND ONE OF THEM A SENIOR. SO THIS COOKBOOK WOULD HELP ME ALOT.
THANKS CHRISTY
I am ready to try this casserole this week!! And I would LOVE to win the cookbook to try other recipes. I’ve developed a cookbook addiction…yikes!
I’m a cookbook addict!!
umm okra! did anyone else pronounce this as “okry”? I’ve always called it that, maybe its an Alabama thang, not sure? Anyway would love to win the cookbook!
Looks like a great combo, love the heat. Okra…, one of my favorite.
Mmmmm that looks good. I would love to get this cookbook, I love okra.
Oh that sounds delicious! I’d love to have that cookbook! And I’m dying to cook some collards now after reading the collard post.
I’ve been poking around on your website lately & found some
interesting recipes. One is doughnuts made from biscuit dough.
But, so far, the one recipe that stands out from the rest is
your “Fried Apples” recipe. I have made it twice since I
discovered it about 2 months ago. Very Good!! Will be trying
the Chicken & Okra recipe soon. Keep those yummy recipes
coming. Thanks for all your hard work you put into this
website. Happy New Year All!!
Love your blog
Thanks for the chance at winning..I’ve been thinking about getting this book for a while!
If Erin’s recipes are as good as yours Christy then we are all in for a treat following the Chicken and Okra one.
I’ve never actually tried Okra before, I shall have to go to a deli and see if they stock them.
Bye the way, you are going to have a lot of names to put in the hat for the draw.lol. Could you please add my name? Thank you.
As always you came up with something great! Thanks for all your ideas and new recipes! I can always count on any recipe you have they never fail. God Bless you and your family! Thanks for including me in your drawing, would love to win a cookbook!
Not an okra fan, however I think this looks & sounds awesome!!! Feeding my triplet growing 4 year old boys on a budget idbecoming harder & harder…this book looks great!!!!
I am trying to cut the budget every way possible in this tough economy. Hubbies income has been cut drastically, so every penny counts. Thanks for the great site. I check it very often. You and your Mom and grandmother cook very much the way I learned to cook.You can’t beat simple, fresh, Southern style food.
Don’t rule this recipe out because it has gumbo in it. The gumbo vegetable mix available in the frozen vegs sections has corn, celery, onions, and red peppers in addition to okra, and okra doesn’t always become slimy. If you’ve had gumbo, you’ve probably had okra without knowing it. I really like having the recipe first, Christy, before the photo tour. I usually scroll down to your recipe before I look at the pics.
This is the book I need!
Love cookbooks and your blog. Keep those recipes
coming! Happy New Year!
I love cookbooks as pleasure reading, but this looks like one I would actually use to feed my family!
I’ve never had okra any other way than fried and that is my fav so this looks tasty too. I can’t wait to try it! And cookbooks are a collectors item for me : )
Recipe looks very interesting!!! I’m always looking for new cheap and easy recipes. Thanks for sharing.
I love the concept of this book. It is an aid to being a better steward of our money!
Hi Christy, Count me in too !! I think this cookbook should be a runaway success in these tight economic times..”to everything there is a season”.
I would love to win. You can never have too many cookbooks and $5 dinners would fit right into my budget right now.
I just recently found your website. Thanks for all that you do. You are an inspiration.
would love to win the cookbook.
I am not a fan of okra, but I’m always willing to try out something new. This different way of preparing may make a big difference. A meal for $5.00 a day sounds wonderful.
Hope I’m not too late to enter. Hubby got me a fax machine for Xmas, when all I wanted was a copy/printer. (I’m a leader in a weight loss support group and thought a copy machine would come in handy). As usual, when we hooked it up, it blew my computer off line!! He keeps saying “no more technology!” But, every year we get something that needs to be added to our computer. I would love to win this cookbook, especially since all of this technology keeps knocking me off line!! LOL
Hope your New Year is great, Christy. Keep up the great work! Happy New Year to all the SP family!
Wow! This looks great! I LOVE okra. My neighbor grows it in her garden, but has never offered me any. I’ve thought many times about sneaking over at night to get some, but haven’t! I promise!!! The idea of a $5 Dinner Cookbook in my kitchen would make my husband very happy!
Whoa I would love to cook meals for five dollars. My new years resolution is supposed to be to cook more in 2010, I love cookbooks and food but sometimes its just easier to run out. I am going to try to put a stop to that though, a new cookbook would certainly help.
Never saw okra used this way before. Might be worth a try.
Thanks for the emails–Love them and looking forward to more
in the new year.
Black-eye peas, here we come.
This will definitely be something different to try around here. Looks very appetizing and so easy. You can’t beat easy! Let’s not forget okra! Yummy! You can never go wrong with okra! Can’t wait to give this recipe a whirl In the kitchen!
The cookbook looks sensational Erin and so does your site! I have It bookmarked to access over and over again!
Thanks for giving all of us a chance at winning a copy!
Thanks to you as well Christy! You rock as always!
Good luck everyone!
Thanks for the great recipe! Christy I’ve used several of your recipes. Thanks so much for sharing them.
You are always a bright spot in my day……….and Erin helps me save money, too!!
Thanks and God Bless both of you and your families.
I love your receipes they remind me of cooking with my grandma she is 98 years old and lives with me now she can’t do much anymore but the southern thang you do in the kitchen remindes me of her so much. Just love $5.00 meals too because we never no how many people we will be feeding in a southern kitchen at any given time.
Love and best wishes for you and your family in the new year.
New to the website and LOVING it!!!! Thanks for the cookbook giveaway, I would love to win! Making a lot of cutbacks right now and this cookbook would help so much to be able to prepare more cost effective good foods on a budget. Thanks for all you do!
I would LOVE to win the cookbook!!! This recipe looks DEEEEELICIOUS!!
Love, Love, Love Okra – and can’t wait to try this recipe. Think I’ll stop by the store on my way home and pick up the necessities.
I’d like to add the cookbook to my collection too!
Have a wonderful New Year!
This looks really good! I hope I can find the mixed veggies w/ okra, I have never seem them before!
I hope to win the cookbook, and since I have the gumbo vegetable mix in the freezer, I am going to try this recipe!
Thanks!
Anyone who includes okra is a recipe is a winner in my book. Now I would like to be a winner of this cookbook!!
Yum! This sounds great! I can’t wait to try it- and I would love to win that cookbook! Thanks Southern Plate!
Christy,
As this year comes to a close, I just wanted to take the time and thank you for such a wonderful site as Southern Plate. I don’t know how many times that I have found lost family recipes from your list of recipes. (I swear we must be kin somewhere along the line.) My brother called me the other day asking me how to make Hoe Cake and I told him how to get on Southern Plate and look the recipe up. He called me back later and asked, How are we kin to her again? LOL I told him we were not kin and he said, “We must be, she has all Granny’s recipes!”
I thought I would die laughing. But seriously, it is nice to know I have a back up on old stand-bys and a place to go when I want an idea for supper.
I hope you and your family have a very Happy New Year!
Anita Mitchell
This recipe speakes to my southern roots, chicken, okra, and tomatoes……yummy!
I want to try this recipe really soon. I usually make stewed okra, or gumbo, so this is a great addition to my recipe file. Hope I win a cookbook, if not will have to track one down. Thanks for sharing!