Queso Chicken

Name: Queso Chicken
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: ▢ 1 cup Buttermilk; ▢ 4 boneless chicken breast; ▢ 2 teaspoons taco seasoning; ▢ salt and pepper; ▢ 10 ounces Ro-Tel tomatoes and chilies; ▢ 1 cup queso 12 ounces; ▢ 1 cup pepper jack and cheddar cheese shredded

by Barbara Curry

4 servings

40 min

Baked Queso Chicken will be your new favorite weeknight meal! It’s not only QUICK and EASY, but delicious. With just a few ingredients and a special tip, you’ll have moist and tender chicken on the table with almost no effort.

Queso Chicken

Are you looking for something to fix for dinner that doesn’t take much work and uses just a few ingredients. Queso Chicken is going to be you’re new “go-to” recipe when you can’t come up with something for dinner. Or maybe it’s your turn to cook during vacation and you want to find a meal that everyone will love without putting in too much effort.

With just six ingredients you’ve got a fabulous dinner that both kids and adults will love. While I enjoy experimenting with a ton of ingredients and making dishes with lots of steps, this is not one of those recipes. You basically just dump everything into a casserole dish and bake. A couple of things will help make this dish stand out. Start out by marinating your chicken.

Queso Chicken

You can put this together in less than 10 minutes. The tomatoes and queso combined with the juice from the chicken make a fantastic sauce that’s great over rice or pasta, or serve with a baked potato and pour the cheesy sauce over the potato!

Queso Chicken

Why you have to try Queso Chicken?

Super tender chicken breasts
A cheesy Tex-Mex flavored sauce that is great with rice or pasta
ONLY 10 minutes to prepare
On the table in 35 minutes start to finish
Everyone will love it

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Recipe details

Yield 4 servings
Time spent: Prep time: 10 Minutes Cook time: 30 Minutes Total time: 40 min

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Instructions

Place chicken in ziplock bag with buttermilk and let sit overnight or at least for 30 minutes. Drain, and pat dry.
Preheat oven to 375º.
Sprinkle chicken with taco season and salt and pepper. Place in a glass baking dish.
Drain tomatoes and chilies and place half on chicken, cover with queso and place the rest of the tomatoes on top. Cover with grated cheese mixture.
Bake for 25-30 minutes, until instant thermometer reads 155º. They will continue to cook once removed from the oven.

Tips

For tender chicken marinate in buttermilk for 30 minutes
If you don’t have Ro-tel tomatoes, chop fresh tomatoes and a jalapeno
You can find queso in the refrigerated section of the grocery or on the potato chip aisle
This is great served over rice

Comments

Raye Boullt on Jul 14, 2022

When you say queso what exactly are you talking about , cheese or prepared
queso dip ?

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- Tracy on Jul 14, 2022
  
  She is referring to the queso cheese they sell in the jar in the chip isle
  
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- Cindy Moore on Jul 14, 2022
  
  I agree with Tracy. Don’t use the Velveta block of queso because it becomes thick and “hardens” up upon cooling.
  
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Mike on Jul 14, 2022

Are there just 8 oz in a cup??? Queso.

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- Bik128493823 on Oct 22, 2024
  
  1 cup is 8 ounces, yes. I had to get a 12 ounce jar and see if 1 cup is enough. If not, you have another 4 ounces to go.
  
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