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Sunday, April 6, 2014

Ritzie Cheesie Chicken


Ingredients:
4 large chicken breasts
2 sleeves Ritz crackers
1/4 t salt
1/8 t pepper
1/2 C milk
3 C cheddar cheese, grated
1 t dried parsley

Sauce:
1 14 ounce can cream of chicken soup (or cheese, celery, mushroom ...)
2 T sour cream
2 T butter

Instructions:
Cut each chicken breast into 3 large chunks.
In a small food processor grind up the Ritz crackers.
Pour the milk, cheese and cracker crumbs into 3 separate small pans. Toss the 1/4 t salt and 1/8 t pepper into the cracker crumbs and stir the mixture around to combine.
Dip each piece of chicken into the milk then the cheese and finally the cracker crumbs.
Spray (or Crisco) a 9x13 pan with cooking spray and lay the chicken inside the pan.
Sprinkle the dried parsley over the chicken.
Cover the pan with tin foil and bake at 400 degrees for 35 minutes. Remove the tin foil, bake for an additional 10 minutes, or until the edges of the chicken are golden brown and crispy.
Into a medium sized sauce pan combine the cream of chicken soup, sour cream and butter with a whisk. Stir it over medium high heat until the sauce is nice and hot. Serve over the chicken.

Cooking Time: 45 Minutes
Recipes Makes: 8 Servings

I use anything that is crunchy for these types of recipes. I don't always have the exact ingredient called for. I've been using Ritz Crackers forever because of the flavor, already salted, easy to crumble ... Besides, I like to snack on them too while cooking.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Made this the other night. Very, very tasty. I used this dipping succession: egg flour egg cheese cracker crumbs. Baking a 400 degrees mine baked in 25 mins. Nice and brown, crispy and delicious. Will make again and again with different kinds of cheeses - thinking garganzola. Great recipe, big mess.