I have combined chicken with cheese tortellini and a creamy sauce with lots of cheese and turned it into Chicken Tortellini Casserole.
This is purely a comfort food that will make you feel good from your head to your toes. And in case the pasta and cheese were not enough to make it a comfort food, I added in some bacon for safe measure. The sauce is a mixture of cream of chicken, cream of mushroom soup, milk and spices.
For the tortellini, you will want to buy tortellini from the dairy section. You can use frozen tortellini, but you will need to cook the pasta before adding it into the recipe.
You may notice that I only put bacon on half of the casserole, I did that on purpose. My hubby, Mr. B brought me home some smoked bacon bits, it had a very strong smoke flavor to it which I don’t care for, so I gave all the bacon to Mr. B!
Lots of bacon!
Chicken Tortellini Casserole
Lots of cheese!
Creamy Goodness
Chicken Tortellini Casserole
Enjoy!
Ingredients
- 6 slices of bacon cut into bite size pieces
- 2 chicken breasts, about 1 lb., cut into chunks
- 1 can (10 ¾ ounce) cream of chicken soup
- 1 can (10 ¾ ounce) cream of mushroom soup
- ½ cup milk
- ½ tsp. garlic powder
- 1 tsp. onion powder
- ½ tsp. paprika
- 1, 10-12 package fresh cheese tortellini, uncooked
- ½ cup Monterey jack cheese, shredded
- ½ cup cheddar cheese, shredded
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 2.5 quart baking dish with cooking spray.
- In a frying pan over medium high heat cook the bacon until crisp. Remove from the pan and set aside. Leave the bacon grease in the pan and add the chicken, cook for 7-8 minutes or until the chicken is cooked through. Remove from pan and set aside.
- In a bowl, combine the two cans of cream soup, milk and spices, stir to combine. Add in the chicken, tortellini and chicken, stir to combine. Pour the mixture into the baking dish. Sprinkle the bacon crumbles over the top and then do the same with the cheese.
- Cover the dish with foil and bake for 30 minutes. Remove the foil and bake for an additional 15 minutes and it’s ready to serve.
