Creamy Shrimp Rice Bake

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

It is perfect for ANY household unit of measurement potluck or equally an "add on" dish for a large vacation gathering.

You tin mail away position this together early on inwards the hateful solar daytime as well 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 well as add together the RAW rice. Stir as well as permit the rice kernels toast inwards the butter for a couplet minutes, as well as thus add together iii cups chicken broth. Stir, COVER and plough oestrus downward super low as well as educate the rice for xv minutes. After xv minutes, take away from oestrus as well as fluff amongst a fork. Keep covered as well as laid aside.

Next, saute the next together:

1/2 loving cup butter (*don't freak out, run into 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 well as chopped small 
2 cups of your favorite fresh veggies (broccoli? mushrooms?)

Saute, gently till tender, as well as thus accept off the oestrus as well as laid aside.

Next, peel, de-vein, launder as well as pat dry 1½ pounds of fresh shrimp (see banknote below most frozen shrimp). 

In a bowl, mix the next until smooth:

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

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

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

ENJOY !!!

NOTE: It mightiness audio similar 1/2 loving cup butter is a lot, but yell back that this recipe serves 8 (1 tablespoon per serving) and 1/2 loving cup of butter is necessary for the correct sauce consistency.

NOTE: Make certain yous utilization Colby-Jack cheese.  Cheddar (only) is non a proficient selection here. Just brand certain your selection of cheese is creamy when melted.

NOTE: If yous can't notice cream of shrimp soup, cream of celery soup would operate good too.

NOTE: For the staff of life crumb topping, Just position a couplet of tablespoons of butter inwards a child pan along with 2 cups of bread crumbs (plus a 1/2 teaspoon of  kosher tabular array salt as well as a salubrious pinch of dark pepper as well as a pinch of cayenne pepper) and stir them until they give-up the ghost toasty brown, as well as thus sprinkle on the casserole earlier 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 refrigerator (do non speed thaw inwards running water). It is unbelievable how  much H2O volition drain out of the frozen shrimp as well as that water will brand your casserole SOUPY as well as SOGGY IF YOU SKIP THIS STEP. Let the shrimp thaw overnight, as well as thus the side past times side day, rinse them as well as pat them dry. I ordinarily utilization medium size shrimp for this recipe.

Happy Holiday!!