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Hot Spinach Dip Chicken Casserole
March 13, 2016 by Judith Hanneman
Who doesn’t love hot spinach artichoke dip? Here it is as a main dish made with chicken breast!
Lately I’ve been wanting to see if I could take some of my favorite hot dips and build a real meal out of them.
The two I have done so far have been successes and taste really good. Those were my Jalapeño Popper Dip Chicken and Queso Dip Chicken. These dip conversions seem to work best with chicken.
Next up was to figure out something for my favorite hot spinach artichoke dip. This one kept pretty much to my main recipe for that dip. The exception here is I used no mayonnaise. Instead, I substituted cream soup so the “dip” wouldn’t separate…
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