Recipe: Appetizing Loaded baked potato & chicken casserole

Loaded baked potato & chicken casserole. A fast and easy take on the classic stuffed twice-baked potato. Pairs well with a juicy, fruit-forward red wine blend. Packed with steamed broccoli, bacon, cheddar, sour cream, and chives, they are a meal on their own!

Unwrap potatoes and cut lengthwise slits in the top of each. When the baked potato skin gets left uneaten, then most of the nutrients get tossed. Lay the potatoes horizontally on a work surface and slice a thin layer off of each. You can cook Loaded baked potato & chicken casserole using 18 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Loaded baked potato & chicken casserole

Prepare 3 lb of chicken.
Prepare 10 medium of potatoes.
You need 1 tbsp of paprika.
Prepare 1 tbsp of ground black pepper.
Prepare 1 tsp of salt.
It's 1 tbsp of onion powder.
Prepare 2 tbsp of garlic powder.
It's 1/3 cup of olive oil.
It's 1/2 tbsp of liquid smoke.
Prepare 8 tbsp of butter.
You need 8 oz of cream cheese.
It's 1 cup of heavy cream.
It's 3 oz of bacon pieces.
Prepare 8 oz of shredded cheese.
It's 1 tbsp of Your preferred chicken seasoning ( Grill Mates chicken rub).
It's 1 tbsp of olive oil.
Prepare 1/2 oz of chives.
You need of sour cream.

In a bowl, lightly mash the potato flesh. Loaded Baked Potato Soup Imagine all your favorite baked potato toppings—bacon, cheddar, sour cream, green onions—in a spoon. Baked potatoes can be a wonder to behold, all soft, fluffy, and snowy-white. They're also bland as bland as bland can be.

Loaded baked potato & chicken casserole instructions

Preheat oven to 400°F.
In a small bowl mix peprika, pepper, salt, onion powder, and garlic powder.
In a large mixing bowl add and mix 1/3 cup olive oil and liquid smoke..
Now mix ingredients from step 2 into bowl from step 3.
Cut up potatoes into 3/4 inch cubes and add to bowl from step 3. Mix well to coat..
Add potatoes from bowl to a 10"x 13" baking dish. Keep as much as possible of the oil seasoning mixture in the bowl and set aside..
Place baking dish in oven 45 minutes. Stirring potatoes every 15 minutes..
While potatoes are cooking cut chicken into 1 inch cubes and place in bowl from step 6..
Add oil and chicken seasoning to bowl from previous step and mix with chicken to coat. Set aside..
In a medium sauce pan add butter, cream cheese and cream. Heat and mix over medium heat. Once thoroughly mixed set aside..
Mix chicken again and add to a preheated frying pan. Only brown chicken on all sides, do not cook all the way through..
After potatoes have cooked for 45 minutes remove from oven. Mix chicken into potatoes..
Sprinkle shredded cheese and bacon over potatoes and chicken, reserving a small amount of each for later. Pour evenly cream cheese mixture from step 10 over everything and place dish back in oven for 25 min..
Once that has cooked remove again, add remaining cheese and bacon. Chop and add chives. Cook for additional 5 minutes..
Remove from oven, add sour cream to taste and serve..

I don't say this to malign the potato—alongside wheat, rice, and corn, the starchy tuber is crucial to sustaining the world's population, which is no small claim. Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper Loaded Twice-Baked Potato Casserole. My husband is a meat and potatoes guy, so I try new combinations for variety. In this dish, twice-baked potatoes and potato skins make a scrumptious casserole. —Cyndy Gerken, Naples, Florida. Loaded Twice-Baked Potato Casserole Recipe photo by Taste of Home.