Green Chili Chicken Spaghetti

Some cuisines are just meant to combine and make delicious fusion dishes! Take this green chili chicken spaghetti dish, for example, which pairs juicy chicken with spaghetti, creamy soups, cheese, and Mexican flavors. 

Despite the spaghetti being Italian, the seasonings being Mexican and the addition of American soup flavors, it just really works! If you have leftover cooked chicken or even leftover spaghetti, you can use that in this recipe to save time and effort.

This dish is delicious served hot, as soon as it’s ready, with parmesan cheese (freshly shredded is best) on top and some hot garlic bread or a side salad, whichever you prefer. You can make any adjustments you want to this tasty recipe, perhaps using different vegetables like zucchini or mushrooms, or adding another kind of cheese.

Why You’ll Love the Recipe:

This delicious combination of chicken, spaghetti, chilies, and Mexican flavors is so quick and easy to make. You can prepare it for dinner on a busy weeknight. Make extra because it’s great reheated too! 

How to Serve It:

Enjoy this dish hot, as soon as it’s ready, perhaps paired with garlic bread and a side salad. 

Can You Make It Ahead?

You can cook the chicken ahead if you wish. 

Storage Instructions:

Leftovers will keep for up to 3 days in an airtight container in the refrigerator.

Variations and Substitutions:

Swap the spaghetti for your favorite pasta shapes or use another kind of cheese.

Green Chili Chicken Spaghetti

This incredibly simple chicken spaghetti recipe with south of the border flavors is well worth making. It’s quick, easy and very tasty.

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Cook Time 30 minutes mins

Setting time 2 hours hrs

Course Main

Cuisine Mexican

Servings 8

Ingredients

  

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• 1 pound boneless skinless chicken
• 1 pound spaghetti
• 4- ounce can green chilies drained
• 14 ounces Rotel tomatoes
• 1 chopped onion
• 1 chopped bell pepper
• 1 pound Velveeta Mexican or regular
• 1 stick butter
• 1 can cream of mushroom soup
• 1 can cream of chicken soup
• Salt and black pepper to taste

Instructions

 

• Put the chicken breasts in a pot with ½ teaspoon of salt. Add water to cover and cook for 12 minutes or until done.
• Cook the spaghetti in the liquid in the pot and drain.
• Melt the butter in the same pot and saute the onion and bell pepper. Cook for 10 minutes.
• Add the tomatoes, soup (not diluted), drained green chilies, cooked chicken (shred it first), and spaghetti and stir.
• Add the cheese and some more salt and black pepper and cook,
  
• stir occasionally until the cheese has melted.
  
• Enjoy!
  

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