Chicken & Green Noodle Casserole (Southern Living, 1980)

What are "green nooldes"?  Anybody?  My guess was spinach noodles of some kind - but, why are they in this recipe?  I'm not sure... and I didn't use them.  We used corn spaghetti.  It seemed safer.

Southern Living has the above recipe.  I didn't change it tremendously, but did change up a few things...

Chicken & Noodle Casserole

2 boneless/skinless chicken breasts, diced

1 pkg spaghetti noodles (I used gluten free corn)

1 cup chopped onion

1 chopped green pepper

4 ozs processed cheese

1 recipe gluten free cream of chicken soup

1.5 ozs pimento peppers

Crushed red pepper

salt
1 Recipe Gluten Free Cream of Chicken Soup

** Cook chicken with onions and pepper in skillet.  Season as desired.  Add in pimento peppers when almost finished cooking.  Once off heat, add in processed cheese until melted.

** Cook spaghetti separately.

** Add chicken/onion/cheese mixture to cooked noodles.  Move to a 9x12 baking dish and bake at 350 for 20 minutes.

This was actually better than Chris or I expected.  I think I may have had this as a child?  At least it "felt" familiar.  The corn pasta we used was a perfect compliment flavor-wise.  It was really heavy, though.  Definately not a diet dish.  I think if we ever do this again, we would use different cheese and maybe even double the cream of chicken soup.  This was a great comfort dish and really easy.  3 stars.

- Chery