Chicken Olivia Recipe – a delicious, creamy chicken dinner made easy by using a rotisserie chicken.
I’ve never made a chicken recipe like this before so I was a little apprehensive about how my son would react to it. That quickly disappeared when I placed his dinner plate in front of him. While he was looking at his dinner we held hands to say Grace. He looked at me and said, “My mouth was watering so much looking at my plate I had to swallow before I could say Grace”.
Yeah ,that pretty much wiped any apprehension I had about dinner away and it only got better after he tasted it. This is a very creamy dish with lots of flavor. Perfect served over cooked rice or small pasta. This is a very easy and quick dinner to put together using a rotisserie chicken. Chicken Olivia is like a dream come true for weeknight dinners. It’s really just a matter of combining all the sauce ingredients into one bowl and pouring or ladling them over the shredded rotisserie chicken in a baking pan and topping the casserole with cheese.
The ingredients for Chicken Olivia are very common everyday ingredients that you may already have. if you’d like to make the casserole without using a rotisserie chicken you can bake a couple of chicken breasts and shred them. Chicken thighs would work just as well or a combination of white and dark chicken meat together. Just make sure whether you use chicken breasts or thighs or a combination of both you have enough to make 3 cups full of shredded chicken.
Chicken Olivia Ingredients:
- 3 cups rotisserie chicken
- 2 cups sour creram
- Two 10.05 ounces cream of chicken soup
- 1/2 cup chopped black olives
- one 7 ounce can mild green chiles
- 1/4 cup grated sharp cheddar cheese
- 1/4 cup chopped green onions
- salt and pepper to taste
- cooked rice, enough for each person to have a portion of rice with dinner
- chopped green onions as a garnish
We start this delicious recipe by placing the cooked shredded chicken into the bottom of a 13×9 inch baking pan.
Place the sour cream, both cans of cream of chicken soup, chopped black olives, mild green chilis and chopped green onions in a large bowl.
Stir everything together to combine. Add the salt and pepper to taste.
Pour or ladle the soup mixture over the shredded chicken in the pan evenly.
Sprinkle the shredded sharp cheddar cheese over the entire casserole. I have a tendency to get a little heavy handed with cheese so if you go over the recipe amount it’s all good. I probably put more like 2 cups instead of 1 1/2. Put foil over the top of the baking pan and bake the casserole at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. When the 30 minutes is up, remove the foil and bake until the cheese melts and is bubbly.
This creamy, delicious and easy Chicken Olivia Recipe is going on the regular dinner rotation list immediately! It is just too good not to. My son ate half the pan all by himself. This one’s a keep, ENJOY!
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Chicken Olivia Recipe
Ingredients
- 3 cups rotisserie chicken
- 2 cups sour cream
- 2 10.05 cans cream of chicken soup
- 1/2 cup chopped black olives
- 7 ounce can green chilies
- 1 1/2 cups grated sharp cheddar cheese
- 1/4 cup chopped green onions
- salt and pepper to taste
- Enough cooked rice to serve with the dinner for each person
Instructions
- Pick the meat off of the rotisserie chicken (both white and dark meat) and shred it. Place it onto the bottom of a 9x13 baking pan.In a large bowl mix together both cans of cream of chicken soup, sour cream, black olives, chillies and green onions. Add salt and pepper to taste.Pour the mixture over the shredded chicken in the pan. Sprinkle the grated cheese over the top evenly. Cover the pan with foil, bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. After 30 minutes remove the foil and put the pan back into the oven until the cheese is melted and bubbly. Serve over rice.
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sound amazing ! very nice Recipe, Thanks for sharing
Sound delish–will make soon!!
I am all for easy recipes!
Please add the green onions to the recipe list! They’re not on there so I didn’t put them on my grocery list. Here’s hoping regular onions will be as tasty!
I will Kate, I am sorry. Let me know what you think.
You did not include the green onions in the recipe listing. I go to make the recipe and I’m your steps you call out adding green onions.
It’s a 1/4 cup Dolly and more for garnishing if you desire.
Hi
Will cream of mushroom soup work for this? We are gluten free and I can’t find cream of chicken.
Laurie here’s a recipe for gluten free chicken soup that you can make yourself.https://www.food.com/recipe/condensed-cream-of-chicken-soup-substitute-gluten-free-384201 This is going to come in handy for lots of recipes honey!
FANTABULOUS! Whole family loved it & hubby ecstatic that he has more than enough to take to lunch more than 1x this week! 🤗
Wonderful Glenda!! Isn’t it the best that something so simple can be so good!
This was a great dish! Quite simple to put together and turned out excellent! Recommend!
I am so glad that it went well and you loved the Chicken Olivia!
Made this for dinner tonight. It was fantastic and easy. Everyone in my family loved it! Thanks
I always love to hear when the whole family enjoys a recipe, glad chicken olivia was one of them!
This was very good! I made it exactly according to the recipe an it turned out great. Will definitely make it again.
Thank you!
This looks fabulous! I’m starting up a new blog with my daughter on a little bit of everything. I look forward to seeing your recipes in the future!
Delicious dinner dish. My husband loved dish
Will enjoy left overs
Looks delicious! Must try!
I was on the fence about this recipe when I first made it. It was kinda bland and very soupy. I subbed the green onion for one smallish sweet onion, very finely diced. Added some Worcestershire sauce and about 1/2 c Trader Joe’s corn salsa. Kept everything else as written. Served it over rice. Well, what a difference a day makes! We love this stuff!! It was much more creamy. Not at all soupy and anything but bland. The only change I would make would be to drain the chillies. Recipe doesn’t say one way or another. Thx for a keeper Mary!
I love recipes using rotisserie chicken and sour cream with a cream soup. I use the same ingredients less the olives to make sour cream enchiladas. This is going into our rotation!
Yes! I love it when we make the rotation, LOL! So glad you enjoyed it <3
Would this be good if you added shredded potatoes to it or serve as is over noodles? We don’t care for rice.
PattyK oh yes! Either would be fine. Let me know what you think of the recipe sweetie, I’d love to hear your opinion!
Love this! It’s the same recipe I’ve used for years except I’ve always Iayered it in a casserole dish between flour tortillas, top with cheese and black olives, bake and then serve with salsa and sour cream.
Wonderful Lana, I’m going to have to try it your way! Thank you for taking the time to come back and comment, I appreciate you!
Yes, it’s called King Ranch Chicken, but with a can of Rotel , and the corn tortillas and we have been making it for years too! I guess everyone makes it to their own taste, but it is a great way to use rotisserie chicken and it goes a long way!
Thanks for sharing!
It is Linde, I’ve never made King Ranch Chicken before. My husband loved this recipe so much that I imagine he’d like the King Ranch casserole too. I’m going to have to try it. Is there one recipe you prefer over another?
I made it today and it was delicious! I wonder if I can freeze the leftovers!
Good morning Gloria, I’m so happy you made and loved this recipe. I couldn’t say whether you could freeze it or not Honey, I’ve never done that. If you do happen to freeze it and it works well for you, please come back and let us all know Honey. Thank you for taking the time to comment, I appreciate you!
Hi Mary
I just came across your recipe in Pinterest. Can’t wait to try it. I’m making out my grocery list. I live in Louisville.
Let me know what you think Elle, we loved it here. Louisville is about 2 yours away from here. Hope your doing well!
Could you use seafood ( shrimp , crab or lobster ) to make this more Holiday special .
The sauce is so fabulous. Thank you
Could you use seafood — shrimp , crab or lobster instead of chicken for a more festive meal ?
The sauce I’d FABULOUS. Thank you for sharing
Marylee
The recipe uses a rotisserie chicken that’s already cooked. I don’t see why you couldn’t switch out COOKED seafood for the chicken in the recipe. Let me know how it turns out if you do it Marylee, I’d love to know!