Yummy Lummy Leftover KFC cream of mushroom casserole recipe
When I was a teenage boy, my mother would make trays of chicken casserole and lasagne for weekends for when she and Dad would go away and spend time with friends. The food was meant to be sufficient for me and my two younger brothers. It was never sufficient.
We’d devour the large baking trays of chicken casserole and lasagne in one sitting and then we’d go out and buy pizzas and chocolate Bavarian desserts.
The Temptress, aka Mabel, suggested in the comments of my diary blog last week that I should have a 21-piece bucket of KFC and eat the leftovers over the weekend. It got me to thinking about what to do with leftover KFC. I’ve shared many KFC leftovers ‘recipes’ here in the past, but then I thought I could make a creamy mushroom chicken casserole with KFC. It would be nothing at all like Mum’s but it would still be good.
This is a Yummy Lummy original recipe.
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I bought all the ingredients from Coles. No, Yummy Lummy is not sponsored by anyone.
Recipe
Yummy Lummy Leftover KFC cream of mushroom casserole recipe for lovers of buying a 21-piece bucket of deliciously oily and greasy and fatty KFC. This is especially helpful if like me you no longer have the ticker to plunder an entire bucket in one hit.
- Leftover KFC original recipe pieces
- Celery
- Crushed garlic from a jar
- Sliced spring onion
- Sliced mushrooms
- Lashings of butter
- 420 g tin cream of mushroom soup
- 125 mL thickened cream
- Frozen peas and corn
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Preheat oven to 160 degrees C.
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Separate some of the skin from the flesh.
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Bung the KFC pieces into a disposable aluminium roasting tray along with some pumpkin and sunflower seeds.
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Layer the celery and mushrooms over the chicken.
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Pour over the soup and cream.
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Layer the spring onions.
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Layer the KFC skin.
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Layer some Coon Colby cheese slices.
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Layer on more spring onion.
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Bake in the oven for about 35 minutes until the cheese and KFC skin look good..
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You can boil, steam or radiate with microwave radiation.
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Take your pick.
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I shot a photograph using my Nikon DSLR and a Tamron 90 mm macro lens
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I ate the meal while watching House, MD on Amazon Prime.
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I washed the dishes scrubbing all the fat off.
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I wrote the recipe.
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I wrote this blog post.
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I hope that even though this is a regular meal, readers will share this post on Pinterest, Twitter and Facebook.
Disclaimer
I have no culinary training nor qualifications.
This post is not intended to convey any health or medical advice. If you have any health concerns about anything you read, please contact your registered medical practitioner.
The quantities are indicative. Feel free to vary the quantities to suit your taste.
I deliberately do not calculate energy for dishes. I deliberately default to 500 Calories or 500,000 calories because I do not make these calculations.
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Questions and answers
Why KFC and not just a Coles roast chook?
Well, there was the challenge from Mabel and KFC tastes better. In addition, the skin thickens the sauce better.
Surely this isn’t value for money?
Nope, buying a 21-piece bucket isn’t cheap. Next time I do this it will be a $10 chook from Coles.
How do you reckon the leftovers will taste?
I’ll let you know after I eat it. Who knows? Leftovers usually taste better as the flavours grow richer.
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Final thoughts
Do you like KFC?
Do you like leftover KFC?
What do you prefer to get from KFC?
I love the story about you and your brothers – sounds like boys!
We were very much typical boys, appetites bigger than a house 😂
I make a smothered chicken which is quite similar to this. It’s delicious but I tend to only have something like it very rarely 🙂
Yep. This is not an everyday meal 😃😃😃
I used to love those frozen chocolate bavarians…
My brothers and I did too. We’d eat a few at a time.
He he…
KFC … tastes great but not healthy for you. I like the way you’ve stretched the chicken so you get more meals out of it which are a bit more healthy as well. 🙂
I think all up, this will get me five meals. So it’s not too bad.
I agree. Well done.
I used to eat both KFC and Popeyes years ago but once I had my stroke I pretty stopped eating both. The salt content is way too high and now I’m more sensitive to salt. Also KFC had a big scandal in New York city. My girlfriend found a rat instead of chicken in her meal.
Many KFC has gone out of business. Which is a good thing considering that they serve rats.
You’re right not to eat it any more for your health.
That’s awful about the rats substitution. It’s good those stores went out of business.
Yes. You are absolutely correct. In the last 7 years I’ve only seen one KFC open. I love chicken but I stick to more reputable venues.
No such thing as “leftover” KFC in my house Dr. Gary 🙂 🙂
Back in the day there was nothing left over in my place but now I like to stretch a bucket 😃😃😃
Well done. It all looks very good – fresh, hot and enticing 😀 I was surprised there wasn’t cheese in the ingredients list but then later on you added the Colby Cheese 😀🧀👍 Would it be a casserole and would it be as good if you didn’t add the cream and just added the creamy soup? I’m not a huge fan of cream.
Is the chicken skin still crispy, tasty as it was like yesterday? 😀
Hopefully your mum never found out you and your brothers ate all the casseroles and lasagnes in one sitting and then you brought in your food expansion packs 😃😃
Hehe, thanks Temptress Mabel!
The cheese was a last minute thought. I should edit the ingredient list.
I reckon you could get away with deleting the cream, especially if you added some grated cheese.
The skin does go crispy and Mum has been told many times she cooked insufficient amounts and I had to spend money I earnt from my part-time job to feed my brothers 😂
Cheese is always better with everything. So more cheese, less cream. That said, one time I added cheese in a pan of pasta, plated, I found the cheese stuck everything together a bit too much lol.
If you spend hard earned money on pizza, it is money well spent 😂
True, cheese stuck to the base of a tray or saucepan isn’t a good thing. The cheesy topping of tonight’s casserole was nice.
We used to inhale the pizzas and then with each of us armed with a spoon we’d demolish a chocoate Bavarian within seconds.
Never too much cheese but sometimes I do dislike it when the cheese, well, gets really stuck in your food as well and you have trouble pulling the food apart.
Thin crust or thick crust pizza?
In those days I went with thick with a meaty topping. These days I like thin crust with a simple margherita.
I also like a simple margherita. It annoys me when some people laugh at a simple margherita and say it’s nothing but cheese and bread.
It has all the flavour I need, and I can eat a whole pizza without feeling guilty or too bloated.
Depends. I’ve had margherita where there was no flavour and the cheese tasted so artificial lol.
Sounds like you need to get out and try pizza from as many places as possible 🤤
Well I did discover the nine cheese pizza a while back. It was nine inch and it was hard to finish…so bloated from all the cheese.
Hehe, I’d love to try 9 cheeses 😃
If you are ever in Melbourne CBD, swing by Hungry Bear Pizza in Melbourne Central. Their nine cheese pizza is fab, even has blue cheese 😃
That would be good. I’m not sure when I’ll get another free night in Melbourne. These days I go down and back in a day for most trips.