Easy chicken casserole

Took the liberty of adding tomato paste and Espelette pepper. Fried the chicken breast for a bit first, then tore it apart with forks. Boiled the scoop on the stove. The taste is so much richer!

Made this once before with the rosemary and lemon but they made it taste quite soapy, so this time I left them out and added fresh time and a bay leaf and tasted delicious, no more soapy taste😊👍

Good for a weeknight meal. Not a wow factor but what’s nice.

Good recipe, but agree with the comments that the instructions are not always very clear. Made slight modifications with seasoning (2 tsp garlic granules and 2 tsp rosemary instead of the original ingredients) to make it more flavorful, and it came out quite well. :)

I took others advice and didn’t add the full amount of stock. Though it looks quite soupy now immediately off the heat, it does thicken up once cooled. Added tips: 1. Dry Your Chicken - Be sure and pat dry your chicken thoroughly before browning. My first few pieces didn’t brown up as much as desired. Largely due to water. 2. Skin On/Off - I felt leaving the skin on while adding flavor/fond also proved more inconvenient after cooking. As it loses all crispiness created in the first step. 3. Salt Early - This one is tough and has a lot of variables. With the stock I used I should’ve added half a teaspoon when I adding the veggies. Alternatively, you could’ve salted the chicken hours earlier after drying and allow the salt sometime to work its way in. All in all a nice hearty dish, even if it’s a little bland if the instructions are followed as written.

Swapped the potatoes for suet dumplings & served with swede & carrot mash.

Instructions are hard to follow. Not specific. Says to season chicken but doesn’t specify with what.

Delicious! Came out more as a soup. It was so flavorful and easy.

Made it in a Dutch oven since I didn’t have a casserole dish and it worked fine, just made it a little more soupy. Might have added a little more flour or less broth to help it thicken up more, but that could have just been because of the pot. Never bother peeling potatoes, it’s unnecessary! Also just used halved chicken breasts since that’s what I had. Makes a lot of food! Great flavor, don’t skip out on the leeks! Just seasoned the chicken with garlic powder, salt and pepper. Turned out great.

Everyone loved it, but with being an amateur at cooking, all the dicing, peeling, and chopping takes far longer than it probably should. I think I left everything in the oven at the end just a little too long, but everything was wonderfully tender and delicious!

Even if you do not have the complete ingredient, it still comes out nice.