Million Dollar Chicken Tetrazzini – super delicious make-ahead casserole! Makes a great freezer meal!! Chicken, spaghetti, cream of chicken soup, cream of mushroom soup, cottage cheese, cream cheese, sour cream, chicken broth, salt, pepper, garlic, parmesan cheese, mozzarella cheese. SO creamy and it tastes like a million bucks! This is definitely going in the dinner rotation! #chicken #casserole #freezermeal #chickendinner
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Stop what you are doing and add this Million Dollar Chicken Tetrazzini to your menu. O-M-YUM! It is SO good! I took my Grandmother’s recipe for Chicken Tetrazzini and added my million dollar flavor combination of cottage cheese, cream cheese, and sour cream. Chicken, spaghetti, and four types of cheese baked in a creamy sauce. This is comfort food at its best!
How to Make Chicken Tetrazzini
This chicken casserole is very easy to make. Start with boiling the pasta. While the pasta is cooking, stir together chopped chicken, cream of chicken soup, cream of mushroom soup, cottage cheese, sour cream, cream cheese, chicken broth, salt, pepper, garlic powder. Add the cooked pasta and pour it into the pan. That is it! The hardest part of the whole process is waiting on the water to boil for the pasta.
To cut down on the prep time, I use a rotisserie chicken. Rotisserie chickens are a HUGE timesaver. I always have some rotisserie chicken meat in the freezer for casseroles like this one.
Can Chicken Tetrazzini be Frozen?
You can make this ahead of time and refrigerate or freeze for later. To bake the casserole after refrigerating overnight, you may need to add a few minutes to the baking time. To bake the casserole after freezing, thaw completely and bake as directed below. You can also freeze leftovers for a quick meal later. To reheat leftovers, thaw completely and microwave or cover with aluminum foil and bake at 350ºF for 30 to 40 minutes, until heated through.
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Million Dollar Chicken Tetrazzini
Ingredients:
- 1 (16-oz) package spaghetti
- 1 whole rotisserie chicken, meat removed and chopped
- 1 (10.5-oz) can cream of chicken soup
- 1 (10.5-oz) can cream of mushroom soup
- ¼ cup sour cream
- 1 cup cottage cheese
- 1 (8-oz) package cream cheese, softened
- 1 cup chicken broth
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ tsp pepper
- ¼ tsp garlic powder
- ¼ cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
- 2 tsp dried parsley
Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 300ºF. Lightly spray a 9×13-inch baking dish with cooking spray.
- Cook pasta according to package directions. Drain.
- In a large bowl, combine chopped chicken, soups, sour cream, cottage cheese, cream cheese, broth, salt, pepper, garlic powder. Stir in cooked pasta.
- Pour mixture into prepared baking dish. Top with cheeses and parsley. Cover with aluminum foil.
- Bake covered for 45 minutes. Remove foil and bake an additional 10 to 15 minutes, until bubbly and cheese is melted.
Notes:
Steph
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Thank you for sharing this recipe! It is one of my absolute faves and it stays in the family recipe rotation!!!!! Only thing I changed was amount of salt. I used less as it already had enough! Also added mushroom and bell peppers!!!!
Very tasty! I have made this countless times since discovering this recipe. Thank you for this and the your many other recipes. All hits at my house.
So glad I tasted the sauce mixture before adding the salt…it was already really salty. I did add 1/4 cup chopped red pepper, 1/2 cup diced sweet onions sauteed and a 4 oz can of mushrooms, drained. I made two 8×8 casseroles and froze one for later. I love the addition of the extra cheeses for adding more protein. Thank you, it is going to get baked tonight and I know we’ll love it. Going to add a good sprinkle of red pepper flakes on top before serving!
Just want to thank you SO much for this recipe. This is my third time making it. It is ABSOLUTELY the BEST chicken casserole EVER!!! Having family for dinner and guess what they’re getting? They are gonna LOVE it!
How far in advance can you make this without freezing?
It should be fine a day or two in the refrigerator.
Just got done putting the recipe together and it is in the oven. I tasted the mixture before adding the noodles and it was delicious. Noodles, cheese and baking it…it’s going to be fantastic. I find the best recipes on this site and always keepers. I have family coming so this will feed a lot. In the future for my small family, I will make 2 pans and freeze one according to the notes above.
Excellent! I was skeptical of using the cottage cheese; but it was undetectable in the dish. It has a very creamy texture. I will make it again.
YAY! SO glad you tried it as written. I’m not a fan of cottage cheese on its own, but it is wonderful in casseroles.
Can we substitute the cottage cheese?
You can make it any way you want. This is how I made it.
This reminds me so so much of my grandmothers tetrazzini recipe, and she’s from Sicily. Thank you so much for sharing your recipe, it’s a new favorite in my home!
Can you freeze the casserole?
yes
This recipe is great! Would not change anything except the oven temperature. I baked this recipe for 45 minutes covered at 300 degrees. Took foil off baked it another 15 min. It was still cool and not browned. I raised the temperature to 375 for another half hour and it was perfect.
I’m always perplexed by recipes that say to just mix in cream cheese. I know to soften it first, but I still have trouble mixing. Any tips?
Paula, I soften mine in the microwave and then beat it with a hand mixer until creamy.
I’m going to try this sound good but I will be adding in celery onions and mushrooms sound like it will be better that’s what it usually have in it
Yep😁!!
Great tips…I’m doing it! Thanks so much.
You could always use a mixer to combine the soups and softened cream cheese, and then stir in the other ingredients. This may make it less lumpy than just hand mixing it. I mixed it with a spoon and it was lumpy, but baked up to perfection!
I made this last night and it was wonderful. My wife and 2 grand kid really thought it was one of the best. I was questionable about the cottage cheese but once it is mixed and everything is combine you want notice. We hardly had enough for left overs tonight.
Make it it is great.
I too was nervous about the cottage cheese but this was delicious! The only changes I made were that I used macaroni and 2 cream of chicken because that’s what I had and only 3 chicken breast. I thinly sliced the chicken, and sautéed it in flavored olive oil. Even my picky daughter ate it.
How many people does this feed? Should I double the recipe for 10 people?
servings are listed under the recipe title in each recipe
This was a huge hit!! I just happened to come across it and had everything in my pantry. I used canned chicken instead of regular chicken and no one could even tell!!
Made this for my family tonight and we all loved it! Delicious and easy to prepare! Definitely a keeper! I followed the recipe exactly, expect I used 3 chicken breasts that I cooked in the Instant Pot and shredded. It was so creamy and cheesy… definitely comfort food! I was nervous about the cottage cheese, but am now very glad I tried it. Thanks for the great recipe!
I made this for dinner tonight. It was so good. I am keeping this recipe. My daughter came over to eat with us, and she kept saying how good it was. So of course, she is taking some home with her to enjoy later. I cannot make you understand just how delicious this is. Yummy, yummy for my tummy!!!🤗
Keep up the good work.
Do you figure on getting about 4 cups meat from a rotisserie chicken?
Yes – 4 to 5 cups depending on the size of the chicken.
What should I double up in place of the cottage cheese? We don’t do cottage cheese. lol
What do you normally substitute??
added a small onion, celery, minced garlic that I sauteed W/1tbsp butter also sub’d ricotta cheese for CC had some leftover grilled chicken that worked great and topped with fresh mushrooms then the cheeses Yummy Yummy will definitely make again. didn’t have spaghetti so I used linguini
Kim, if you do a search on this website, there is a recipe called ‘chicken tetrazzini’ and it is similar to this one except it doesn’t call for cottage cheese or cream cheese. It’s really good! I haven’t tried the million dollar version yet but I will soon 🙂
Have you made the recipe using a different type of pasta? Sounds delicious.. can’t wait to make!
Made this for dinner tonight. Only difference was I used egg noodles and added frozen peas. Very good. My six year old grandson was here for a sleepover. He said it was yummy.