Easy Chicken Scalloped Potatoes

Chicken Scalloped Potatoes

Don't have the patience to make a Deliciously Hot home cooked meal for your family. Then this is the recipe for you!

Things you will need

• 3 quart- (3L) baking dish
• 2 boxes of the 114g Idahoan scalloped potatoes blend
• 2 cans of Campbells cream of mushroom soup
• 3 cups of boiling water
• 1 1/3 cups of milk
• 2 tbsp of butter
• 2 chicken breasts
• 1 1/2 cups of frozen veggie mix

To start preheat the oven to 375F.

Then cook your chicken breasts in a frying pan with 2 tbsp of olive oil. Cook each side for 8 minutes. Set on a cutting board and cut into bite sized pieces. Then put the potatoes, seasoning mix and the 2 cans of soup into the baking dish. Add in your 3 cups of water that you boiled the 1 1/3 cups of milk , 2 tbsp of butter, 2 cubed up chicken breasts, and the 1 1/2 cups of frozen Vegetable mix. Mix everything in the dish gently so you don't make a mess. Then place it in the oven and bake for 1 hour. 

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Mamas Easy Chicken Pot Pie

Mama Magee's Chicken Pot Pie!

To make one pie to feed 4 people I like to start by bringing half a pot of water to a boil and adding in 2 boneless chicken breasts and letting that cook about 15-20 mins. When the chicken is done I remove it from the water and set it on my meat cutting board let that sit and cool down while I continue with the rest of the meal.

While the chicken was boiling I diced up 1 small onion and one celery stick and sautéed it in a teaspoon of butter with a pinch of salt and pepper till they were tender. Then transferred it to a large bowl. 

Cut into bite sized pieces 1 cup and a half of potatoes. 

(Keeping the skin on these baby potatoes is great because the skin has nutrients and it also has thin skin so it wont be tough to bite threw. Other potatoes with a thick skin you will probably have to peel first)

Then place the potatoes into the same water that you boiled the chicken in. Let them boil for about 5 mins then add in 1 and a half cups of frozen veggie mix into the pot with the potatoes. Let all that cook until the potatoes are tender. Should only take about another 5 minutes because the potatoes are small. Be careful not to let it over cook or the potatoes will turn into mush. 

Now drain the water from the pot and place the vegetables into the same bowl that you have the celery and onions that you cooked earlier into.

To Make the Gravy.
You will need

• 2 Tbsp of butter
• 2 Tbsp of flour
• 1 cube of chicken bouillon 
• 500 mls of water

In a Sauce pan on medium high heat melt the 2 tbsp of butter. Once its bubbling add in the 2 tbsp of flour and stir that with a wired whisk for about 2 mins. Then add in the cube of Bouillon and break it up with the whisk and stir it around till its combined. Then start adding the water 1/2 cup at a time. So pour in the first half and stir till the mixture thickens then another half cup until that thickens and again. Then your last half cup will take about a minute or two to thicken up. You can taste it for seasoning but remember the bouillon has lots of salt in it already so you wont need to add salt to the gravy but I like to add a pinch of black pepper. Then pour the gravy into the bowl with all the other ingredients.

Then cut the chicken into bite sized pieces and add that to the bowl.

Sprinkle in 1 Tsp of Celery salt and 2 tsp's of Onion powder. Give everything a good mix and then taste the mixture to see if it needs more seasonings and adjust it to your personal liking. 

Once the mixture has cooled a bit its time to assemble your pie.

I like to really over fill it as you will see in the photo below. Don't worry it will be fine. Then take the other crust and flip it over and on top of the pie so now you have a crust on the top. Use the end of a fork to seal the edges. Then with a knife cut 3 or 4 slits on the top for the steam to escape while it bakes in the oven. 

Bake at 375 F for 30-40 mins. Until the edges have browned.

Then take it out and let it rest for about 10 minutes. 

Then Serve and enjoy! 

Taquitos

Easy homemade Taquitos that your kids will love!

Packed with veggies!

Now this is just the basic veggies that I always put in my taquitos 

but in the past I have sneaked in along with the basic veggies I have below mushrooms, zucchini , spinach. The list goes on with all the types of veggies you can put in here.

The amount and types of veggies you see in the picture below can be modified to your liking.

Just dice all the veggies into small little pieces, the smaller you can get them the better they can hide from those "Picky eaters" and the spices we are adding will mask a lot of the flavors and colors of the veggies too another bonus for the kids.

Then saute all the veggies together in a skillet with 2 Tbsp of olive oil and salt and pepper. On medium heat till the veggies are tender. 

Tip. take a bite of one of the carrots to find out if the veggies are ready, if you can bite through it nicely then you can move on to the next step.

Then put 1 pound of ground meat ( could be beef,chicken,turkey) into the skillet along with the veggies and brown up all the meat.

Then add your spices and flavorings.

I like to add a couple of tbsp of Chili powder ( or a package of taco seasoning) but you can add less or more depending on your taste.

I also like to add half a cube of chicken bouillon and a tsp of chili pepper paste. 

and salt and black pepper to taste. 

Once you have tasted the mixture and your happy.

It's time to assemble the Taquitos!

I used for my whole mixture. 2 packages of small whole wheat tortillas ( 10 come in each pack) or you can buy one pack of the larger tortillas and make bigger taquitos. 

You will need some cheese, I'm using cheddar and also some tooth picks to keep the taquito sealed for frying.

And just like that your ready to go to the frying pan with a little bit of canola oil or you can bake them at 400f till they are nice and brown. About 10 mins. 

I call it Taquitos my children call it "Delicious". 

I hope you enjoy it! comment below let me know how you changed it up! Make this version or makeup your own! Just have fun with it and enjoy! :)