Salsa Chicken
This EASY Salsa Chicken Recipe is baked with layers of your favorite Mexican ingredients, including cream cheese, refried beans, salsa, black beans, and more. This casserole-style dinner is a meal all on its own, or can be served with rice, in tacos, on salads, and more!
Try this with my homemade salsa and guacamole.
Salsa Chicken
Salsa chicken is the simplest dump and go recipe. Just layer up your favorite Mexican ingredients, bake, and serve.
Most salsa chicken recipes out there keep it strictly to seasoned chicken, salsa, and cheese. But that just doesn’t cut it for me.
I much prefer to bake this chicken over classic taco dip ingredients. There is so much more flavor and it’s more of a complete meal.
Ingredients
See recipe card at bottom of post for full ingredient quantities and full instructions
- Boneless/Skinless Chicken Breasts
- Taco Seasoning
- Cream Cheese
- Refried Beans
- Salsa- Try my homemade salsa!
- Black Beans
- Corn
- Cheese- I recommend a combination of cheddar and Monterey Jack Cheese. Shredding them from a block at home will melt better than packaged shredded cheese.
- Parlsey/Cilantro
How to Make It
Slice each chicken breast in half lengthwise. Pat completely dry. Season each side with Taco Seasoning.
Optional: Sear the chicken in a skillet with olive oil over medium-high heat for 3-4 minutes per side to create a nice textured outer crust.
Spread the softened cream cheese over the bottom of a 9 x 13 inch baking dish. Spread the refried beans on top.
Add 1/2 of the salsa, followed by the chicken. Top the chicken with the remaining salsa, black beans, and corn.
Add the cheese. Cover and bake at 375° for 25 minutes.
Remove the cover and bake for 10 minutes. Garnish with green onions and/or cilantro and serve.
*Use a meat thermometer and ensure that the internal temperature of the chicken has reached 165°F.
Make-Ahead Method
This casserole can be assembled up to 2 days ahead of time. The liquid from the salsa will actually soften up the refried bean layer, making it velvety smooth and even more flavorful.
Storage
- Store in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.
What to Serve with Salsa Chicken
Try These Next
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- Taco Casserole
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- One Pot Taco Pasta
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- Velveeta Queso
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Salsa Chicken
Ingredients
- 2 large boneless/skinless Chicken, about 1 ¾ lbs.
- Salt/Pepper
- 1 oz. packet Taco Seasoning
- 8 oz. cream cheese, at room temperature
- 16 oz. Refried Beans
- 2 cups Salsa
- 1 cup Black Beans, drained and rinsed
- ½ cup Corn, canned or frozen
- 1 ½ cups cheese, cheddar, Monterey Jack, and/or mozzarella
- Fresh Parsley or Cilantro, to garnish
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- Slice each chicken breast in half lengthwise. Pat completely dry. Season each side with Taco Seasoning.
- Optional: Sear the chicken in a skillet with olive oil over medium-high heat for 3-4 minutes per side to create a nice textured outer crust.
- Spread the softened cream cheese over the bottom of a 9 x 13 inch baking dish.
- Spread the refried beans on top, then add ½ of the salsa of salsa, followed by the chicken. Top the chicken with the remaining salsa.
- Sprinkle with black beans, corn, and cheese. Cover and bake for 25 minutes.
- Remove the cover and bake for additional 10 minutes.
- *Use a meat thermometer and ensure that the internal temperature of the chicken has reached 165°F.
- Garnish with cilantro and serve.
Notes
- Sour cream
- Rice
- Guacamole
- Tortilla Chips
Excellent dish!!! Loved it … I added a few black olives. 5 star dish! Thank you for the recipe!
Hey Jacki! I’m so happy that you enjoyed this recipe!! Thank you so much for taking the time to leave a review- I really appreciate it! ❤️ -Stephanie
My family LOVED this recipe, my son requests this on a weekly basis now, and it’s SO easy to make. Thank you so much for sharing it. So much better than other Salsa Chicken recipes I’ve tried!
That’s so great to hear Sandy, thank you so much for the review, I really appreciate it! -Stephanie
I made something similar but it was called Fajita Chicken which I saw on tik tok. My daughter liked it but said it needed corn, black beans. Lo and behold you post a recipe that we are going to use instead. the other one also had a 16 oz of sour cream which was a bit much. Another great recipe!
Hey Michelle! I am SO happy that you guys enjoyed my version of this salsa chicken, wiiiiin!! You are awesome, thank you for your support!! -Stephanie
Could this be made with ground beef? I like the ingredients in this better than most Mexican casseroles.
Hey Debbie! Sure can, I would just brown the beef and drain it prior to adding it to the casserole dish! I’d recommend you check out my Taco Casserole recipe too, that one is very similar but with ground beef! ❤️ https://thecozycook.com/taco-casserole/