Chicken Florentine Artichoke Bake
An easy weeknight casserole loaded with chicken, artichokes, spinach and sun-dried tomatoes – and all you need is just 10 min prep!
I kind of have a thing for casseroles. It’s just one of those things thats put a big smile to my face.
Mainly because casseroles remind me of pure comfort food – comfort food that you can pop right in the oven, and then bring it to a friend in need or a family who just had a newborn. Or for ourselves when we just need some good old comfort food in our house.
It’s even better when the casserole has all of our favorite ingredients – chicken, artichokes, spinach and sun-dried tomatoes – my ultimate weakness. And when you throw in some rotini pasta, Monterey Jack cheese and crisp breadcrumbs, that’s a casserole I can get onboard with 7 days a week.
Best of all, we received Butters’ stamp of approval on this too!
Chicken Florentine Artichoke Bake
Ingredients
- 8 ounces rotini pasta
- 1 ¼ cups milk
- 2 large eggs
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- ½ teaspoon dried oregano
- ½ teaspoon dried basil
- ¼ teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
- 1 12.5-ounce can premium chunk white chicken, drained
- 1 ½ cups shredded Monterey Jack cheese
- 1 14-ounce can quartered artichoke hearts, drained
- 1 10-ounce package frozen chopped spinach, thawed and well-drained
- ⅓ cup julienned sun dried tomatoes in olive oil, drained
- 2 tablespoons freshly grated Parmesan cheese
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- ½ cup Panko*
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly oil a 9×13 baking dish or coat with nonstick spray.
- In a large pot of boiling salted water, cook pasta according to package instructions; drain well.
- In a large bowl, whisk together milk, eggs, garlic, oregano, basil and red pepper flakes; season with salt and pepper, to taste. Stir in chicken, Monterey Jack cheese, artichokes, spinach, sun dried tomatoes, Parmesan and pasta.
- Add pasta mixture to prepared baking dish. Place into oven and bake until cooked through and golden brown, about 18-20 minutes.
- Heat olive in a large skillet over medium high heat. Add Panko and cook, stirring, until browned and toasted, about 3 minutes; set aside.
- Serve pasta immediately, sprinkled with Panko.
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Just fixed this for my family and it was a huge hit. Did not have any chicken but had ground veal (go figure) so I used that instead. I have just recently come upon your blog but have already made several meals and they have all been wonderful!!!! This is my new favorite food blog, thanks!!!
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Good recipe
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Made this tonight and it was delicious! I used half and half instead of milk to get a creamier consistency and it turned out perfect. I also added some shredded parmesan to the panko mixture and used 1 cup of panko with 2 tablespoons of olive oil, mixed it all together and then spread over the top of the casserole before putting it into the oven. The end result turned out fantastic with lots of flavor and creaminess. This one is definitely going into the meal rotation at my house! Thank you for the recipe!
Tried it tonight – the flavors were great! It came out a little on the dry side, though, but I can’t figure out why. I followed the recipe exactly…any ideas or suggestions to make it less dry? Sometimes my oven runs hot so it could have just been that. Thanks in advance 🙂
I’m so glad you tried this out! As for the dryness, you can try to reduce the amount of pasta so that there is enough of a sauce to go around. Hope that helps!
Tried this recipe last night. It was pretty good, just think you should probably cut back on the spinach. It was a little over-powering. Great recipe though!
I’m so glad you tried this recipe! As for the spinach, please add or reduce as needed to fit your preferences.
This totally rocks! Delicious!
I have never used sun-dried toatoes. Can I use drained canned tomatoes instead?
Yes, that should be just fine!
Woah! Sundried tomatoes, pasta AND cheese? This meal looks like a winner for sure! YUM!
I am having a dinner party and this looks delicious. I am one that likes to have things done in advance. Can you put this together and store in the fringe in the morning and then take out and bake right before the party?
Yes, that should be just fine. But I recommend letting it sit out at room temp for about 30 min-1 hr prior to baking.
I would suggest not putting the panko crumbs on until taking it out of the frig. While in the frig, the crumbs will absorb moisture and it could make more of a crust when baked than the lovely crumbly topping shown on the beautiful pictures here.
I love casseroles too. This one seems exceptional to me. I am soooooooooo sure it can’t be because it’s lunch time for me. I love Butters. My friend has a corgi and I stayed with her last weekend. So I got to play with Misty a lot. They are so much fun. I am Misty’s Auntie.
I told her about Butters—for real. Smiles——
Made this last night and it was awesome! (Next time I’ll be sure to drain the spinach more because it was a little watery when it came out of the oven) What do we think about freezing this recipe??
I’m so glad you gave this a try! And yes, draining the spinach is very important in a recipe like this since frozen spinach does retain quite a bit of water. As for freezing, unfortunately, I cannot answer this with certainty as I have never tried freezing this myself – there were no leftovers left to freeze! I recommend using your best judgment for freezing and reheating.
Ahhhhh…totally comforting and love adding Panko on top.
Why used canned chicken? Simply bake or saute a few chicken breasts or thighs (or a combo) chop and freeze in one cup portions, pull out as needed, defrost and add to recipe.
Elizabeth – we all have our own preferences. If you prefer to use frozen-defrosted chicken, that’s great! I personally like to use canned chicken from time to time because it just makes prep time so much easier!
Love the flavor of sun dried tomatoes but not the texture. For me and the hubby I’d puree it in the food processor. BUTTERS is stinkin’ adorable……..
This looks fantastic Chungah! I made a bake the other week as well, and it always makes for such a lovely, hearty feelgood meal 😀 x
Would fresh spinach work for this recipe?
Yes and no – you can use fresh spinach but because they are not broken down, you would have to significantly reduce the amount of spinach to make sure everything would fit in the baking dish.
If I were going to use fresh spinach, I would use a trick I learned when using fresh kale when pasta is included. I put the kale (or in this case spinach) in the colander then poor the pasta and all the boiling water from the pasta over it when I am draining the cooked pasta. Does that make sense? It will wilt your kale/spinach so it will fit better in the casserole.
Genius hack!
I bought fresh spinach b/cb/c I didn’t have time for the frozen to thaw.
Rotini pasta is my favorite! Can’t wait to add sun dried tomatoes, artichokes and cheeeese to it 🙂 Butters is too cute, btw…looks like a little fox!
Even the dog loves casserole. This easy dinner looks amazing!
I have never had artichokes! I just may try them in this recipe. I can’t imagine what they would even taste like, but this dish looks GREAT! Everything that i have fixed of your recipes are absolutely delicious!
I’m not a big fan of canned chicken. If I used chicken breasts or chicken tenders, do I need to cook them before putting them in the baking dish or can I put them in raw and the oven will cook them?
I recommend cooking the chicken prior to assembling.