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Heart Healthy Leftover Chicken and Vegetable Pie

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Give your holiday leftovers a delicious makeover when you make this simple Heart Healthy Chicken Leftover Pie recipe using that leftover chicken or turkey and vegetables.

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The holidays are upon us and that means good times, togetherness with family and friends, copious amounts of food, and of course lots of leftovers. How do you give those leftovers a makeover so that you aren’t serving the same meal for weeks? You can only make and eat so much soup, right? This simple recipe for Leftover Chicken or Turkey and Vegetables Casserole uses up all of those leftovers in one easy, heart-healthy, one-pan dish. So simple, so delicious, and it can be customized to whatever you have leftover in the refrigerator and pantry!

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Heart Healthy Leftover Chicken and Vegetable Pie
 
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Give your holiday leftovers a delicious makeover when you make this simple Heart Healthy Chicken Leftover Pie recipe using that leftover chicken or turkey and vegetables.
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Serves: 5-6
Ingredients
  • 2 cups leftover chicken or turkey, shredded
  • 1 cup green beans, leftover or canned (no salt added)
  • 1 cup corn, leftover or canned (no salt added)
  • ½ cup cooked carrots, leftover or canned (no salt added)
  • 1 can low sodium Cream of Chicken soup
  • 1 cup shredded cheese
  • 1½ cups mashed potatoes (If you don't have any leftover, you can used potato flakes and water.)
Instructions
  1. In a large mixing bowl, add soup, chicken, and vegetables, and stir until well mixed.
  2. Pour the mixture into a 9x9 Pyrex baking dish.
  3. Cover with mashed potatoes.
  4. Sprinkle cheese on top.
  5. Cover with foil and bake in a 375ºF preheated oven for 15 minutes.
  6. Remove foil and bake an additional 5 minutes until cheese is golden.

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  1. This took a lot longer than 25 minutes to warm up. Were your leftovers at room temperature? Mine weren't. I took them out of the fridge, assembled the dish and put it in the preheated oven. Also, I am not sure about putting the foil on top. My cheese had already started to melt and was sticking to the foil. I think a better plan would have been to bake the dish for 25-30 minutes and then add the cheese for an additional 5 minutes.
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    • Did you perhaps use an 8x8 pan instead of a 9x9? That's all I can think of, really, with it not warming through and with the cheese. The casserole would be thicker, thus taking longer to warm up, and the cheese would be higher so I could see it getting on the foil that way. If not, I do know that ovens vary in temperature so maybe just raise the heat to 400ºF and cook for the same amount of time, or just add 10 minutes to the cook time. Hope that helps and sorry it didn't work exactly as the recipe states here for you the first time! Otherwise, we hope you enjoyed it!
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      • Christy, I think you are absolutely right. I should have use a bigger dish. I think I would still add the cheese after I take off the foil though. It was deeeelicious and I will definitely be making this again. When my kids were little they used to pile their food together and call it their creations and this leftover dish reminded me of their creations. Thank you for both the recipe and the hint. I am going to enjoy making your other recipes!
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