Stove Top Stuffing Broccoli Cheese Casserole Recipe

1970's Stove Top Stuffing Broccoli Cheese Casserole Recipe is baked in the oven and uses frozen chopped broccoli, cream of mushroom or or cream of chicken soup. It is a quick put-together and a classic vintage recipe. The special ingredient is Stove Top Stuffing.

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Then and Now

I started making this recipe back in 1994. It was given to me on a recipe card by a family member, Marie. I'm not exactly sure where it originated. My best guess is that this recipe was created by Stove Top Stuffing as one of their product recipes. Anytime an older recipe specifies a particular brand, that may be a clue to its origin.

Back in those days, chopped broccoli came in a frozen block. Frozen broccoli is not generally sold that way today because frozen florets have become more popular. I still prefer it made with frozen CHOPPED broccoli to give it that real authentic casserole texture. If I were going to use fresh broccoli, I'd steam (not boil) it for just a few minutes and then chop it up and add it in place of the frozen broccoli.

Another thing that was different back then, was the way the Stove Top Stuffing was packaged. It used to have a little packet of seasoning in it so you could control the amount of flavor to the dried bread crumbs. They stopped doing that over a decade ago and now the seasoning is mixed right into the bag.

A Little History About Stove Top Stuffing

Stove Top Stuffing was introduced on the market in 1972 by General Foods Corporation. In the 1970's women had less time to spend in the kitchen as they were entering the workforce so food companies began to create faster ways of cooking the family favorites.

A recipe developer named Ruth Siems made it her mission to create a stuffing that could be cooked on the stove instead of inside the turkey. Once the product launched, it became a nationwide favorite. Stove Top's television advertisement, featured the tagline "Stuffing instead of potatoes? What a neat idea!"

Here is my recipe card with how I always made broccoli cheese casserole in an 8x10 casserole dish.

Recipe Ingredients:

Substitutions

Stuffing: You can substitute butter or margarine. Any flavor of stuffing. Cheese: Mild, Sharp, for the Medium cheddar cheese. You could try other cheeses too! Make your own casserole combination.

"Cream of" Campbell's Soup: There are many flavors to choose from. I prefer Cream of Chicken, Cream of Celery, or Cream of Mushroom with this recipe. I used to use Cream of Potato but I don't really like that one any more.

Recently I tried Cream of Onion in a recipe and I bet that would be good in this recipe. You could eliminate chopping and using the fresh onion. Would save a step.

Easy Broccoli Casserole

This recipe is SO easy, it takes less than 10 minutes to prepare. Stick it in the oven and let it bake.

Stir everything together, spread, bake.

I consider this a side dish but you could also turn it into a main dish by adding cooked cubed chicken. Casseroles are great to take to events where everyone ends up with a ridiculous hodgepodge of mix and match flavors on their plate. I love that, don't you? Party Potato Casserole is one of those dishes.

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