Doritos Cheesy Chicken Casserole – THE BEST Mexican casserole EVER! Chicken, sour cream cream of mushroom, cream of chicken, salsa, corn, cheese and Doritos! Everyone goes nuts over this casserole. Only takes a minute to assemble and it is ready to eat in 20 minutes. SO quick and easy. Great for a crowd – even picky eaters love this!
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Pin This RecipeThis recipe is from Plain Chicken reader, Diane Blake. She was kind enough to share her favorite recipe with me. I’ve never made a Doritos Cheesy Chicken Casserole, so we gave it a try. This is one of those dishes that isn’t pretty, but it tastes really good. We both really enjoyed this. I used some rotisserie chicken meat and this came together in no time. We both especially loved the Doritos! Chicken Legs topped his plate with extra Doritos because you can never have too many Doritos.
Doritos Cheesy Chicken Casserole
Equipment:
Ingredients:
- 3 cups cooked chicken chopped (I used a rotisserie chicken)
- 8 oz sour cream
- 1 (10.5-oz) can Unsalted Cream of Mushroom Soup
- 1 (10.5-oz) can Unsalted Cream of Chicken Soup
- 1½ cups salsa or 1 (10-oz) can diced tomatoes and green chiles
- 1 (11-oz) can of corn, drained
- 2 cups Mexican cheese shredded
- 1 (9.25-oz) bag of nacho cheese Doritos
Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly spray a 9×13-inch pan with cooking spray.
- Crush the entire bag of Doritos and cover the bottom of the dish.
- Reserve one cup of cheese. Mix together remaining ingredients in a large bowl. Pour chicken mixture over the Doritos.
- Bake uncovered for 20 min. Top casserole with the remaining cheese and bake 5 additional minutes or until melted.
Notes:
- Our favorite store-bought salsas are Mateo’s, Kylito’s, Pace Picante Sauce, and Pace Restaurant Style Salsa.
- I suggest using Unsalted Cream of Chicken & Mushroom Soups in this dish to control the sodium.
- You can buy it by the case at Amazon:
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- Here is our recipe for Homemade Cream of Chicken Soup: https://www.plainchicken.com/homemade-cream-of-chicken-soup/
- Substitute mushroom bouillon to make cream of mushroom soup.
- You can buy it by the case at Amazon:
Steph
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Can you make this ahead and freeze it? I'm making it for a new mom and want her to be able to use it when she needs it!
I made this and it was good, but not my favorite of all of the recipes I've tried from you (which are all wonderful). I used the amounts you said, but I think there were too many chips and too much cheese. Aside from the cheese overload, the flavors went well together. I'm going to tweak it a bit the next time I make it. Thanks for the recipe!
I made this for lunch today & my kids & husband gave it a 9 out of 10. They loved it! I used sharp cheddar, rotel tomatoes & sprinkled some chips on top around the edges with the additional cheese in the middle the last 5 min. I thought the chips on bottom seemed a little too done. Thinking of mixing it all together next time so the chips get a little more soft. We liked it though.
Based on the chips, can soup and sour cream you can assume the nutritional value is high sodium, high fat. But that's also why it is so delish!!!
Moni – everything on the blog is "picky eater approved" 🙂
SO glad your mom liked it too!
My son loves Doritos so thought I would give it a try. Everyone loved it, even my mother who didn't think that she would (she's picky). Thanks!
I might add we have also made the Cinnamon Roll Pancakes and the Cheddar Bacon Ranch Pull, she loves telling everyone how yummy they both were. She has found several recipes you have posted that she wants to make, just having a hard time deciding which ones as there are so many that look and sound good to her. Can't wait tonsee what she chooses! We Love your site!!!
Steph, I found your site after choosing several recipes posted on Pininterest.com after saving quite a few recipes that looked solo yummy, discovered most of them came from your site. The photos is what really drew me towards them. I love to cook with my 10 year old Granddaughter! Night before last she made the Dorito Cheesy Chicken Casserole with very little help from Grandma. She was so pleased when everyone had seconds and told her how good it was. She decided to omit the corn as its something I can't have and she topped it with sliced black olives. Will definitely have this again at our house.
Sara – I think it would taste fine with ranch doritos
I dont have any nacho doritos on hand but I have cool ranch. What do you think of using those instead? Has anybody tried it?
We did the ranch before, and it turned out pretty good
Wish ur recipe had nutrition info,looks so Yummy
Step daughter was here for spring break and one of the days I made this recipe. She had fun bashing the bag of Doritos to make crumbs! Everybody loved it and I'll make it again for sure.
Love this recipe! We used canned chicken and omitted the cream of mushroom for an extra can of cream of chicken its so good! It's on my favorites now and I've gotten requests on Facebook so I shared this! Thank you for posting this!
LOVE this recipe! So quick and easy to make.
I have the same question as Kim! Being from Canada our bags of chips aren't the same as yours so can you tell me how many grams/ounces your bag of Doritos is (not sure how chips are measured by you!)
Thanks!
I'm in American but I bought a 17oz family sized bag and used half it covered the bottom of a 13×9 dish I had
America! Dumb autocorrect! Good luck!
Kim – I used the regular size bag, not the family size bag