Chicken and Wild Rice Casserole is part of my series on Bags to Dishes meals. For Bags to Dishes meals, all ingredients are shelf stable so that is an even bigger plus. Assemble the ingredients for a few months worth of these casseroles if you have a hankering to, and know that that bag will be ready to grab whenever you need it. My family gobbles this one up and everyone wants seconds so if we’re all here, I usually make double.
Be sure to read the original post to find out how you can convert your own meals into shelf stable ones in order to have your family’s favorite recipes available with the grab of a bag and never have to worry about what’s for supper again! Also, check out my other Bags to Dishes meals by clicking here.
Here is what our bag meal looks like when we grab it.
Ingredients all laid out for the Chicken and Wild Rice Casserole.
This is what you would put in the actual bag when assembling the ingredients for this meal.
Long Grain and Wild Rice (Watch for a sale on this and then stock up!)
Cream of mushroom soup (A recipe for homemade can be found here )
Cut Green Beans
Sliced almonds*.
Can You Substitute Anything for The Almonds?
Now you can leave the almonds out if you want or you can substitute water chestnuts if you like. You could also substitute french fried onions for these, that would be good, too!
How To Make a Chicken And Wild Rice Casserole
Step by Step Instructions
- Cook the rice according to package directions.
- Drain chicken and beans. Stir everything together.
- Spoon it into a pie plate or casserole dish.
- Bake at 350 for 20-30 minutes, or until heated through and bubbly.
Now that you’ve worked up all that exhaustion, sit down and eat. 🙂
Make sure you assemble a few extra meals of this Chicken and Wild Rice recipe when you go to make your Bags to Dishes meals! It is just that good. You can leave the chicken out and serve this as a side dish as well or use two bag meals of this and add some warm rolls for a larger family meal.
To see all of the Bags To Dishes recipes I’ve posted so far, click here.
Ingredients
- 1 box Long Grain Wild Rice Mix I use Uncle Ben's, which is currently 6oz)
- 10 or 12 ounce can of chicken whichever you find first
- 15 ounce can green beans
- 10 ounce can cream of mushroom soup fat free is fine
- 1 teaspoon onion powder optional
- 1/2 cup sliced almonds
Instructions
Assemble all canned goods in a large zipper seal bag along with a printed copy of these instructions. If using onion powder, measure out into a zipper seal bag and include that with canned goods.
To make:
- Drain chicken and beans. Cook rice according to package directions in pot big enough to mix casserole up in (no sense in dirtying up more dishes!).
- Once rice is cooked, stir in all other ingredients until well combined. Spoon into pie plate or casserole dish.
- Bake at 350 for 20-30 minutes, or until heated through and bubbly. Serve warm.
Nutrition
You may also enjoy these chicken and rice recipes:
Cheesy Chicken and Broccoli Rice Casserole
Chicken Teriyaki with Brown Rice Fresh & Fast
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Could you tell me what size the package of wild rice is? Thanks so much for these recipes!!!
Thank YOU!! I just went and added that in. It is 6 ounces right now, but any Uncle Ben’s Wild Rice Mix will work. You know, next week it may be a 5 ounce box… 🙂
Thanks!! I appreciate all you do!!
This looks yummy. Plan to try it this week!
I hope you enjoy it Norma!!
Thanks so much for this shelf stable meal! I plan to make these for those who cannot go to the store due to coronavirus scare.
Keep them coming!
Great recipe. I added a 4 ounce can of drained sliced mushrooms and an 8 ounce bag of shredded cheddar cheese.
Ok, I see two problems with this, but think I can work around them. Number one, my daughter is allergic to mushrooms, so the soup is out, but expect any other cream based soup would work. So that one is taken care of, the other is a little more difficult, I have never seem the rice in small packages like that, we have smaller bsgs of the Uncle Ben’s some pre cooked pop in the nuker and some quick cook, supposedly searving 4, so my question echos the first onr, how big a box. Or at least how much cooked rice? In cups, not quarts as yours are smaller thsn mine.
Hey! You are right on the cream soup, so that problem is solved.
On your second problem. I’m not quite sure I’m following you but I’ll try to respond as best as I can. I’m guessing you live in another area, perhaps another country? I like to find out what is harder to get in other places so I know what to tell folks :).
Either way, we have the quick cook versions here as well that serve four. This box serves about four and makes roughly 3 cups of rice once it is cooked. I’m hoping that will be a good guide for ya! This also has seasonings in it so if yours does not, I’d add some parsley (tablespoon of dried), 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder, salt, and pepper to taste. Or just have fun with your family’s favorite spices.
I hope this helps!
Gratefully,
CJ
And by the way, Eva, I just want to thank you. Since you’ve joined SouthernPlate you just leave the most interesting comments and I feel like we are getting to sit and chat in them! I’m so glad you are here and I am so enjoying getting to know you!
Thank you Christy, yes I live in Northeast BC Canada, at Mile 0 on the Alaska Highway, so a lot of the stuff you have regular in your stores we don’t even see here. Like the mixed bag of frozen peppers and onions for the stuffed pepper soup. Can work around that too, but its sometimes annoying! We don’t seem to have the smaller boxed rice (Uncle Ben’s seems to be the brand in quick cooking rice even here) but we have the Bistro Express and some other small bags that you have to cook the bistro express is ready to eat after you heat it in the microwave. So as long as the package you have serves 4 that’s fine. My husband will eat the whole thing himself, he loves rice, but has been told to cut down a bit on it, so this will be a good excuse to make him eat less! LOL
I’m allergic to almonds so I’ll be trying the water chestnuts in mine. I’m guessing I should drain the liquid off them before adding them in?
Yes, you will need to make sure they are drained.
I make this with cream of celery soup. It is delicious!
I think Wild rice may be unusual in some areas, but this type of casserole is so versatile, you could make it with brown rice, red rice, plain white rice, or with any rice side packet you prefer, for that matter it could also be made with rice and pasta mix, or even with quinoa or barley. If you prefer peas to grean beans substitute them. If you have access to fridge food, fresh celery, and even fresh mushrooms would be heavenly in it.
We make the same rice and ______ type casserole with canned tuna or salmon instead of chicken. We also like it with cream of broccoli soup and real cheese without any form of meat.
Play with it and enjoy!
Thank you, I was wondering if Salmon or Tuna would work in the casserole. I have thought about beans in place of the chicken.
I’m so glad you are doing these! We’very started a new expectation with our kids (ages 14 and 12) that they will cook one night a week. Having these bags will be perfect for that – they can just choose the bag they want to cook. With the instructions included, I can be totally removed from the kitchen!
YOU, dear Denise, are an AWESOME MOM!What a great thing to teach your kids AND I know they must be proud to make supper for the family on their own!
I so agree with you on the water chestnuts!! I cannot stand them in stuff. It is such a weird texture to me and I don’t think they really have a taste……
I’m glad I’m not alone!!!! I don’t know what it is about them but….eek. Makes my skin crawl. At least it’s not just a Christy thing. It’s a Christy and Mary thing now! 🙂
Add me to that list….water chestnuts are not my thing either!! They have the weirdest texture.
Can you use the rice that you only have to microwave for 90 seconds and then uts ready to serve?
Christy, this is a brilliant idea! There are just the two of us, now that the kids are gone from home . I can totally see doing up a months worth of bag meals. Fewer trips to the grocery store means less $$ spent and that is a good thing.
This is an absolutely wonderful idea!!! I have a small ’emergency’ pantry for ‘just in case’ and things I tend to run out of. This idea will fit in perfectly because I have thought about the individual items in there and wondered what would I actually cook if the power was out for a while, or any other emergency, and none of it seemed very exciting. This solves that problem right away! Thank you so much for sharing! I love getting your emails and checking out the latest idea or thought!
Pam
Oh easy peasy! I like to add a can of mushrooms to this recipe! I quite agree on water chestnuts. Blech! I like almonds, pecans or walnuts in this.