Recipe: Tasty 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 10 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Loaded Baked Potato & Chicken Casserole

Prepare 2 lb of Chicken breast, cubed.
You need 8 of Potatoes, cubed.
Prepare 1/3 cup of Olive oil.
You need 1 1/2 tsp of salt.
It's 1 tbsp of pepper.
You need 1 1/2 tbsp of Garlic powder.
You need 6 tbsp of Hot sauce , optional.
It's 2 cup of Cheddar cheese, shredded.
You need 1 cup of Bacon, crumbled.
Prepare 1/2 cup of Green onion, diced.

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 500°F.
In large bowl mix olive oil, salt, pepper, garlic powder, and hot sauce.
Add potatoes to bowl.
Coat 9x13 baking dish with cooking spray.
Add potatoes, leave excess oil in the bowl.
Bake potatoes for 45 minutes, stirring every 15 minutes.
I like to cook my chicken a little before I put it in the bowl with oil. Do not cook all the way.
Add cubed chicken to bowl with left over oil. allow to marinate while potatoes bake.
Ounce potatoes are done, add chicken.
Then bacon.
Bake for 15 more minutes..
Then add cheese and green onion. cook for 3 more minutes.

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.