One of my favorite things to do is to cook for others and to have others in our home, or bless others with a meal. One of my favorite things to receive is a foodie gift. They are often much more heart-felt, delicious and practical.
One day a while back, I was in a hurry and had some leftover bread crumbs from another recipe. I did some testing in the kitchen and created a one-pan casserole from scratch. The recipe is actually shared in our dinner in a pumpkin – you can make the actual recipe and bake it in a pan too if you don’t have a pie pumpkin. This is the total homemade version and it is delicious any time of the year!
Well, I thought to myself…”what a wonderful gift to give to others, to give even to those in need during the holidays. I wonder if there is a way to make an easy version of this that can be given as a gift, even stored for when needed?”
Thus, the Christmas Casserole was born! This one still turns out amazing even with most all of it coming from a can. The best part is, it will store for a while (the bread crumbs not as long as the cans, but still a good while) and can be used for any reason, any occasion and the ingredients can be found all-year round!
So why not bless someone with a gift of a full dinner in one pan, easy assembly, warm, baked comfort food and easy clean-up by simply throwing it all away?!?
I know I would appreciate something like this! Let us share both the recipe and the gift idea with you. You can wrap it in a gift bag, or a basket, or even just an aluminum pan for full clean-up and disposal too.
Ingredients needed for One-Pan Christmas Casserole:
- 3 cups of dried breadcrumbs
- 1 tsp. celery seed
- 2 TBSP of dried onion
- 1.5 TBSP of Italian Seasoning
- 1/2 cup Craisins (homemade version here)
- 1 can chicken broth (14.5 oz)
- 1 can of cut green beans
- 1 can of Cream of Mushroom Soup
- 10 oz. can of turkey breast
- 1 can of mushrooms
Here’s how to make the One-Pan Christmas Casserole to eat. Again a “from scratch” version is found here, but using the ingredients in just the gift basket, here’s how it’s made:
- Put the breadcrumbs and spices in a bowl. Pour half of the can of chicken broth over the bread crumbs and let it set to let these rehydrate.
- In a separate bowl, mix the mushroom soup with the second half of the broth.
- Then add the mushrooms, green beans and turkey breast all drained to the soup mixture.
- Then add the rehydrated bread crumbs into the soup mixture.
- Fold in the Craisins.
- In a sprayed pan, pour the mixture in and spread evenly.
- Bake in a 350 degree oven for 45 minutes, or until bubbly and brown.
- Serve warm!
Here’s how to make the One-Pan Christmas Casserole as a gift:
- In a baggie, add 6 oz. dried stuffing bread (about 3 cups), 1 tsp. celery seed, 2 TBSP. of dried onion,1.5 TBSP Italian Seasoning and shake it all together
- In a separate ziploc, add 1/2 cup of Craisins and stick it into the top of the bread bag to be all in one.
Then, in a basket, gift bag or however you plan to “gift” this, add:
- 1 can chicken broth (14.5 oz)
- 1 can of cut green beans
- 1 can of Cream of Mushroom Soup
- 10 oz. can of turkey breast
- 1 can of mushrooms
- And a 9×11 aluminum casserole pan
Note:I got the Christmas themed tray from Hobby Lobby.
The recipe card you can print below that gives instructions on how to assemble and cook.
To wrap this, I just simply put tissue paper around the cans and placed them in the aluminum pan.
Then I placed the whole pan in a gift sized pan, with a bow and the gift tag.
You can print the gift tags below:
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