Creamy Shrimp Rice Bake

We REALLY savor this comfort food casserole served with a large light-green salad. It is packed with tons of shrimp, rice as good as veggies inwards a creamy cheese sauce as good as topped with seasoned staff of life crumbs.

It is perfect for ANY household unit of measurement of measuring potluck or as an "add on" dish for a large opor-garai gathering.

You tin post service away seat this together early inwards the recollect solar daytime as good as bake it off at dinner time...it serves 8 hungry people.

1 1/2 cups UNcooked long grain rice
3 cups chicken broth 
1 tablespoon butter

In a large sauce pan, melt the butter over medium oestrus as good as add together together the RAW rice. Stir as good as permit the rice kernels toast inwards the butter for a couplet minutes, as good as hence add together together iii cups chicken broth. Stir, COVER and plow oestrus downward super low as good as railroad train the rice for fifteen minutes. After fifteen minutes, convey away from oestrus as good as fluff with a fork. Keep covered as good as position aside.

Next, saute the side yesteryear side together:

1/2 loving loving cup butter (*don't freak out, run across banknote below)
3 celery stalks chopped small
2 cloves of garlic minced
2 light-green onions sliced thinly
1 cherry-red bell pepper seeded as good as chopped small 
2 cups of your favorite fresh veggies (broccoli? mushrooms?)

Saute, gently till tender, as good as hence cause got off the oestrus as good as position aside.

Next, peel, de-vein, wash as good as pat dry 1½ pounds of fresh shrimp (see banknote below virtually frozen shrimp). 

In a bowl, mix the side yesteryear side until smooth:

(2) cans cream of shrimp soup (undiluted)
1 loving loving cup milk
2 cups shredded colby-jack cheese
1/4 teaspoon black pepper

Mix  the soup/milk/cheese/pepper until smooth, as good as hence gently stir inwards raw shrimp as good as cooked rice as good as cooked veggies.

Place mixture in greased 10 x fifteen baking dish as good as sprinkle with staff of life crumbs (see staff of life crumb recipe below). Bake at 350 for 35-45 minutes or until hot as good as bubbly.

ENJOY !!!

NOTE: It mightiness good like 1/2 loving loving cup butter is a lot, but proper name dorsum that this recipe serves 8 (1 tablespoon per serving) and 1/2 loving loving cup of butter is necessary for the right sauce consistency.

NOTE: Make for sure yous utilization Colby-Jack cheese.  Cheddar (only) is non a proficient alternative here. Just build for sure your alternative of cheese is creamy when melted.

NOTE: If yous can't detect cream of shrimp soup, cream of celery soup would piece of occupation skillful too.

NOTE: For the staff of life crumb topping, Just seat a couplet of tablespoons of butter inwards a shaver pan along with 2 cups of bread crumbs (plus a 1/2 teaspoon of  kosher tabular array common salt as good as a good for yous pinch of black pepper as good as a pinch of cayenne pepper) and stir them until they decease toasty brown, as good as hence sprinkle on the casserole before yous bake it.

NOTE: If yous are using fresh shrimp, ignore the following note, but if yous are using frozen shrimp, it is extremely important that yous thaw the shrimp inwards a colander overnight inwards the fridge (do non speed thaw inwards running water). It is unbelievable how  much H2O testament drain out of the frozen shrimp as good as that water will build your casserole SOUPY as good as SOGGY IF YOU SKIP THIS STEP. Let the shrimp thaw overnight, as good as hence the side yesteryear times side day, rinse them as good as pat them dry. I normally utilization medium size shrimp for this recipe.

Happy Holiday!!

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