Heart Healthy Chicken and Brown Rice Casserole

Reducing the amount of sodium in your diet is good for your heart and can help lower your risk of high blood pressure. Making low sodium chicken dishes like this can go a long way in reducing the amount of salt you consume. We kept the sodium content to under 500mg of sodium in this chicken recipe for dinner by using low-sodium soup and rinsing the jarred red peppers. Other than the cheese, the rest of the ingredients in this dish are naturally low in sodium.

Many chicken casserole recipes contain noodles, bread crumbs or other ingredients that contain gluten. This recipe uses rice because it is a naturally gluten free food - and since brown rice is a whole grain, it has more fiber and other nutrients than white rice. If you need this to be a gluten free chicken recipe, don’t forget to check the labels on the soup and other ingredients, just to make sure they don’t contain gluten.