Broccoli Chicken Casserole with Egg Noodles is a comforting, delicious dinner. It can be thrown together in 30 minutes. All in all, it’s a great weeknight dinner.
I usually use canned soup when I make this because it is so fast, but you can easily make a chicken flavored white sauce to use in place of the canned soup. This is a great option if you don’t like using canned soups or if you need to make it gluten free.
I also use pre-cooked chicken that I try to keep stocked in my freezer. I usually do a large batch once every couple weeks so I can have it on hand for quick meals like this. Rotisserie chicken or canned chicken works great too.
Another tip for making this in 30 minutes is to use a steamer stock pot to cook your noodles and broccoli at the same time, or you can use the steam-able microwave broccoli and cook it in the microwave while the noodles are cooking.
Little tips like these can save you time and make the process of making dinner less overwhelming.
Because this meal already has meat, veggies and noodles in it, I typically just serve it with some fruit.
We love this simple dinner and my kids are always happy when they see it coming to the table. Surprisingly, my pickiest one, Trever (the 2 year old) always eats at least three servings of this casserole.
Give it a try and see if even your picky ones will want seconds and thirds of this comforting casserole like my Trever does.
More thirty minute meals
- 1 (16 oz) package egg noodles, cooked (make sure to salt the water)
- 1 lb of broccoli florets
- 2 cups chicken breast, cooked and shredded
- 1 can cream of chicken soup or two cups of chicken flavored white sauce
- ¼ cup sour cream
- ½ cup milk or noodle water
- ½ tsp lemon juice
- ½ tsp onion powder
- 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
- In a large pot, cook the noodles according to package directions (I use my big stock steamer pot and cook the broccoli on top at the same time)
- Cook Broccoli
- Drain water out of the noodles, reserve a little if you plan to use it for the liquid instead of milk.
- Add the chicken, broccoli, condensed soup, milk or water, sour cream, lemon juice and onion powder. Mix well until everything is coated with sauce.
- Pour into a 9x13 pan and sprinkle with cheese on top. Put under the broiler until cheese is melted.
- Sprinkle with parsley if desired and serve.
My family loved it. I changed a few ingredients but still had the same wonderful outcome ?
Great! 🙂
I don’t understand. How would this be hot enough if you only put it under the broiler? Seems like it would need 30 min in the oven first.
The beauty of this recipe, is that you mix everything together while it’s hot and then just stick it under the broiler for the cheese to melt. If you’re worried about it being hot, you can cover it and put it in at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.
I’m sorry, I’m voting with the minority. First of all, your sauce ingredients are hardly enough for 1/ 3 of the noodles. I used 2/3 of the noodles and doubled all the sauce ingredients. NO WAY IS ONE CAN OF SOUP ENOUGH LIQUID FOR A POUND OF NOODLES!!!! I originally told myself, cook half the noodles. Well, I thought, follow the recipe. Big disaster. So now I have noodles left for chicken soup, but we will be noodled out! Sorry.
I made this recipe for this first time today, and it was a big hit! Looking forward to the leftovers! Thanks, Maria!
Awesome! You’re welcome I am so glad it was a hit!
Can this be made ahead of time and froze to bake later?
Hi Kay, I haven’t ever tried freezing this recipe, but I can’t see any reason why it wouldn’t work. I have frozen other recipes that have similar ingredients.
I’m a pretty basic cook who needs to follow a recipe, so when you say that a “simple” white sauce flavored with chicken can be substituted for canned soups, that’s a little intimidating for me. Can you provide a reciple for the white sauce, please?
Thanks,
Sue
Hi Sue, unfortunately I don’t have a recipe for this up on my site yet. I should do that. If you melt a 2-3 tablespoons of butter and add the same amount of flour to make a rue, stir it for a little bit, then whisk in about a cup and a half of milk and flavor it with a tsp or tsp and a half of chicken bullion. The other option is to use chicken broth or stock in place of the milk and skip the bullion. Hope that helps.
I cant even believe how EASY it was to make cream of chicken soup!!! THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH FOR POSTING!!!!!!!
Yay! I love hearing this Kelly! You are so welcome!
Can you make this without sour cream? I never seem to have that on hand.
Yes, it just won’t have the same little kick a bit of sour cream gives it.
I used Mayonaise instead of sour cream, because that’s what my childhood favorite Chicken Broccoli Casserole recipe calls for. And it turned out great!
Do you have a recipe for the chicken flavored white sauce?
This is a recipe for a homemade chicken gravy sauce that we eat over rice. https://reallifedinner.com/homemade-creamy-chicken-sauce-for-hawaiian-haystacks/ken-sauce-for-hawaiian-haystacks/
What other cheesenon this would be good? We aren’t a huge cheddar cheese family! :/
Colby Jack, or Monterey Jack.
Fresh grated Parmesan Cheese is delicious on this dish, with a dash of garlic salt addef (to taste!)!
Yum! Sounds delicious! I’ll have to try that!
How many will this serve?
This serves 6-8. It depends on appetites!
Very delicious. I added frozen carrots and peas instead of the broccoli. Yum
I can’t wait to try this recipe I have always look for chicken and broccoli casserole that has pasta in it.
Great, hope you like it Pamela.
When you say I can of cream of chicken soup do you mean the regular size can or do you mean the family size can?
Hi Julianna, regular size.
I made this tonight for the first time and it was a hit with my family!!! I tweaked it a little by adding more cheese into the mixture. I also topped it off with ritz crackers and added more cheese before placing it in the broiler. I didn’t have the egg noodles on hand so I used my pappardelle noodles. But this is now my favorite go to meal! It was so simple to put together and very delicious!! Thank you for sharing and I look forward to making many more of your dishes!!!
Hi Cooper! That sounds delicious! I can’t wait to hear how you like other recipes you try! Thanks for leaving a comment!
Not enough flavour for me
Do I need to grease my casserole dish?
I usually give it a quick spray of Pam.
I must have done something wrong. This was extremely bland. Only my 8 year old ate it and it was because he felt sorry for me. I just wasted so much time and food. 😞
Oh sorry to hear that! I gotta say I’m surprised, most people really love this recipe.
I’m going to make this put it in the crockpot to take to pot luck, I will put the cheese on top in the crock pot to melt. My question is should I add more liquid as it will stay on warn for at least an hour.
I’m sorry Donna, I’m not sure how it would do more liquid…my concern would be that the noodles would get very mushy. Good luck.