Chicken Spaghetti

Preparation info
  • Makes at least

    12

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
The Glory of Southern Cooking

By James Villas

Published 2007

  • About

I have seen and heard about other Southern recipes for chicken spaghetti, but Craig Claiborne always swore that the dish was created by his mother and talked about up and down the Mississippi Delta. The elaborate preparation was his pride and joy, and there can be no doubt that it is a masterpiece of Southern casserole art. (The only explanation for the name is the dish’s remote similarity to classic Italian spaghetti sauce.) The casserole is, without question, something of an ordeal to pre