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November 20, 2022

Dorito Casserole

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This easy chicken Dorito casserole with Rotel is layers of crushed Dorito tortilla chips, shredded chicken, Rotel, sour cream and cheese, all baked together to golden brown perfection. This Dorito casserole is an easy dinner option that the whole family will love!

In fact, after making this, my family all separately mentioned how good this dinner really was, with both my husband and eleven year old saying how this has to go in the regular dinner rotation.

If you’re after an easy dinner that will be a hit with everyone, this Dorito chicken casserole recipe is the one you’ll want to be making.

Cheesy Chicken Doritos Casserole in a dish

Easy Dorito Casserole Recipe

I don’t usually wait until the last minute to make dinner, but when I do, everyone is ravenous and frustrated because they’re all hangry beyond belief, myself included.

But in a weird twisted way, I love that they all gather in the kitchen at the countertop waiting for the timer to go off signaling that dinner’s ready.

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This Doritos casserole- chicken instead of beef is simply the BEST!

I cherish this time together as a family, regardless how irate they might be that I “talked to long after the church committee meeting” as it happened to be on the random Wednesday night that I made this Dorito chicken casserole. 🙂

Enough chatting, onto this recipe for Dorito casserole, right?

Dorito casserole in a dish with pieces missing

How to Make Dorito Casserole:

This Mexican casserole with Doritos is about as easy as they come. In fact, you’ll use shredded chicken that’s already been cooked as the meat of the casserole, which I love.

I already had two cups of shredded chicken in the freezer prepared so that’s how I ended up putting this Dorito taco bake on my menu in the first place.

I do have three shredded chicken recipes that are perfect for making bulk chicken ahead and storing in your freezer. Two are Instant Pot shredded chicken recipes and one is the recipe that I use to make shredded chicken in the crock pot.

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Taking another bite of my favorite cheesy chicken Dorito casserole - Doritos with cheesy chicken - YUM!

Shredded Chicken recipes:

  • Shredded Chicken Thighs in the Instant Pot
    Instant Pot Shredded Chicken Tacos
    4 Ingredient Crockpot Chicken Tacos 

I’ll be honest, making chicken ahead is key in making sure that it’s not another expensive takeout night for dinner. If you have chicken ready to go in the freezer, you have so many dinner options: Buffalo chicken dip, quesadillas, tacos, and the list goes on and on.

On this day though, the fate of the chicken will be Chicken Doritos Casserole. I think that your family will love the way that this casserole tastes just like taco pizza. Seriously, I don’t know how, because usually taco pizza is made with ground beef, but this tastes more like a taco pizza than the Dorito taco bake with crescent rolls that I make, but it does. 🙂 That is a Dorito casserole with beef, though.

The Dorito casserole with crescent rolls tastes mare like a taco salad to me … maybe because the crescent rolls are a little like a taco salad shell and the seasoned ground beef is what I generally top taco salads with? Not sure, but that’s neither here nor there – making both is what I recommend!

Cheesy chicken dorito casserole that we love on weeknights

OK, on and on I go. Here’s how to assemble this Doritos taco bake.

Gather your ingredients:

  • 2 cups shredded chicken
    1 cup shredded cheese (cheddar)
    1/2 cup sour cream
    1/2 packet taco seasoning
    1 can Rotel
    1 can cream of chicken soup
    1 regular size bag Nacho Cheese Doritos, crushed
    Optional: Favorite taco toppings (diced tomatoes, sour cream, black olives, green onions)

How to Make a Dorito Casserole:

So, I mentioned that on the night that I was planning on taking pictures of this Chicken Dorito Casserole, I was in such a hurry that I didn’t take in process photos (hey, just being real) 🙂 So, you’ll have to imagine with me as I type the process while whipping up this taco casserole with Doritos.

But, for real, it’s so easy and simple that you just can’t even mess this one up.

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. While that’s heating up, grab a mixing bowl (the perfect size is the largest Tupperware bowl) like this size.


In your big mixing bowl combine the chicken, cheese, sour cream, taco seasoning, Rotel, and cream of chicken soup. Mix that up really well so all of the flavors are combined. ** If you don’t like cream of chicken soup you could use cream of mushroom soup instead.

Spray the 2-Quart casserole dish with cooking spray and start the layering process where the magic of this Dorito taco casserole all comes together. 🙂


Now, you’ll start the layers.

  • Layer one: crushed Doritos
  • Layer two: 2/3 cheesy chicken mixture spread over and pressed into Doritos
  • Layer three: crushed Doritos
  • Layer four: remaining cheesy chicken mixture
  • Layer five: remaining crushed Doritos
  • Finally: Bake for 25 minutes at 350 degrees and enjoy!

Taking a bite out our favorite Cheesy Dorito casserole.

That’s it, guys! That’s literally the way to have the very best Mexican Casserole with Doritos!

To my family, there’s nothing more awesome than Doritos recipes made into an easy Dorito casserole with Rotel. And, this Dorito casserole, chicken as the star takes the cake!

My Dorito casserole recipe

More delicious dinner ideas for this week:

French Dip Sandwich

Mississippi Pot Roast

Instant Pot Pot Roast

Crockpot Philly Cheesesteak

Crock Pot Carnitas

Taking a bite, this could even be a Dorito casserole side dish for potlucks!
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Dorito Chicken Casserole

Dorito casserole - Chicken though instead of beef ... otherwise known as Cheesy Chicken Dorito casserole -- This will be a HUGE hit with everyone in your family. This Chicken Dorito Casserole Recipe is one that you could even serve for dinner when the kids have friends over - and this is even potluck material. Everyone loves this Doritos casserole!
Course Dinner
Cuisine American
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Servings 6 servings
Calories 192kcal

Ingredients

  • 2 cups shredded chicken
  • 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
  • 1/2 cup sour cream
  • 1/2 packet taco seasoning
  • 1 can Rotel
  • 1 can cream of chicken soup
  • 1 regular size bag Nacho Cheese Doritos crushed
  • Optional: Favorite taco toppings diced tomatoes, sour cream, black olives, green onions

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  • In a mixing bowl combine the chicken, cheese, sour cream, taco seasoning, Rotel, and cream of chicken soup.
  • Mix that up really well so all of the flavors are combined.
  • Spray a 2-Quart casserole baking dish with cooking spray
  • Layer crushed Doritos, 2/3 cheesy chicken mixture, 1/2 crushed Doritos, remaining cheesy chicken mixture, remaining Doritos
  • Bake for 25 minutes
  • Enjoy!

Nutrition

Calories: 192kcal | Carbohydrates: 1g | Protein: 17g | Fat: 13g | Saturated Fat: 7g | Cholesterol: 65mg | Sodium: 176mg | Potassium: 152mg | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 327IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 162mg | Iron: 1mg

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Other Casseroles with Doritos:

  • Walking Tacos 
  • Dorito Casserole with Enchilada Sauce

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