{"id":82,"date":"2015-05-03T20:04:08","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T20:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grabthisrecipe.com\/index.php\/2015\/05\/03\/ground-chicken-casserole\/"},"modified":"2017-10-31T22:31:59","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T22:31:59","slug":"ground-chicken-casserole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grabthisrecipe.com\/index.php\/ground-chicken-casserole\/","title":{"rendered":"Ground Chicken Casserole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ingredients<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1 (225 g) box macaroni &amp; cheese dinner mix<br \/>\n3 tablespoons butter or 3 tablespoons margarine, for pasta dinner<br \/>\n1\u20444 cup milk, for pasta dinner<br \/>\n1 tablespoon olive oil<br \/>\n1 medium walla walla onion, chopped (sweet)<br \/>\n1 (10 ounce) can sliced mushrooms, well drained<br \/>\n1 lb ground chicken fresh<br \/>\nground pepper<br \/>\n1 (14 ounce) can stewed tomatoes<br \/>\n1 cup fresh basil leaf, rolled and chopped in strips<br \/>\nbreadcrumbs (optional)<br \/>\n1\u20442 cup grated parmesan cheese<\/p>\n<p><strong>Directions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Preheat oven to 400\u00b0F<br \/>\nPrepare pasta dinner as directed on package, with butter or margarine and milk.<br \/>\nPlace in a 2 quart casserole.<br \/>\nHeat olive oil in large frypan, add chopped onion and sliced mushrooms, saut\u00e9 till onions are just turning brown, 5 minutes.<br \/>\nAdd ground chicken, pepper and scramble fry with onions and mushrooms turning often until no longer pink, 5 to 8 minutes.<br \/>\nAdd stewed tomatoes, simmer for 3 or 4 minutes.<br \/>\nAdd chicken\/tomato mixture to casserole.<br \/>\nStir to mix with pasta.<br \/>\nAdd chopped basil, turn several times to distribute through casserole.<br \/>\nSprinkle Parmesan cheese over top of casserole and bread crumbs if using.<br \/>\nBake uncovered for 20 to 25 minutes, until bubbling around edges and Parmesan is melted and crisp.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Variations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Use chopped veggies, any that you have and a half pound of very lean hamburger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ingredients 1 (225 g) box macaroni &amp; cheese dinner mix 3 tablespoons butter or 3 tablespoons margarine, for pasta dinner 1\u20444 cup milk, for pasta dinner 1 tablespoon olive oil 1 medium walla walla onion, chopped (sweet) 1 (10 ounce) can sliced mushrooms, well drained 1 lb ground chicken fresh ground pepper 1 (14 ounce) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pasta","tag-chicken"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grabthisrecipe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grabthisrecipe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grabthisrecipe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grabthisrecipe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grabthisrecipe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.grabthisrecipe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264,"href":"https:\/\/www.grabthisrecipe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grabthisrecipe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grabthisrecipe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grabthisrecipe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grabthisrecipe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}