With shredded chicken corn tortillas tomatoes peppers and cheese all tossed with a creamy sauce King Ranch Stew is the ultimate comfort food.
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King Ranch Casserole – Delicious comfort food from the Southwest!
Serious Eats / Morgan Hunt Glaze
In 1991 the Miami Herald boldly declared that King Ranch casserole had a "fan club the size of Texas." I'm not surprised: The dish which features shredded chicken corn tortillas tomatoes peppers and lots of cheese layered with cream of chicken soup is truly the ultimate comfort food. Recipes for King Ranch casserole also known as King Ranch chicken or King Ranch chicken casserole abound on the Internet and in vintage cookbooks. Some Texans including cookbook author Sandy Pollock (one half of The Casserole Queens) believe the dish embodies the flavor of the Lone Star State. Although the dish is named after King Ranch in Kingsville Texas the true origins of the recipe remain a mystery.
"No one seems to know who invented it" journalist Anne Dingus wrote in a 1989 issue of Texas Monthly referring to the King Ranch casserole. Dingus points to chilaquiles a dish with similar ingredients as the casserole's inspiration. "But the dish owes as much to post-World War II cooking when casseroles made with canned soups were the height of space cuisine" she writes. "Because they could be made quickly and frozen for later use casseroles liberated the mistress of the house." The recipe quickly found its way into women's clubs across the country with many putting their own spin on it by tweaking the seasonings using different cheeses and even adding other ingredients such as mushrooms.
