New Recipe: Crispy Cheddar Chicken

I found a new recipe last week and tried it out, but the first go (as it usually happens), wasn't the best.  But I made this recipe for the second time Thursday night and we both just LOVED it.  It was amazing!

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Crispy Cheddar Chicken

Time: 15 minute prep + 35 minutes baking

Yield: 7 servings

Recipe from adapted from What's Cookin' Chicago via Pinterest

Chicken:

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 10-ounce can cream of chicken soup

2 T sour cream

2 T butter

 

1. Cut each chicken breast into 3 large chunks.
2. In a small food processor grind up the ritz crackers.
3. 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.
4. Dip each piece of chicken into the milk, then the cheese, and finally the cracker crumbs.
5. Spray a 9x13 pan with cooking spray and lay the chicken inside the pan.
6. Sprinkle the dried parsley over the chicken.
7. 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.
8. 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.

Here are a few adjustments I made to this recipe:  I subbed the cream of chicken for cream of chicken with herbs, and it was amazing.  I didn't use two sleeves of crackers.  I did the first time I made this, and it was just way too many.  Half a sleeve worked just fine.  You don't have to follow the measurements for each chicken ingredient exactly, just put some milk and some grated cheese into separate containers.  Because using what is exactly listed here, I had to throw out so much.  Once I put all the chicken into the pan, I took the leftover crumbs and cheese and just drizzled it over the chicken.  I served this with rice and it was big hit with the hubby.  I also cooked all the chicken on top of parchment paper, and it worked well.

It's always nice to find a new way to cook chicken!