This recipe was a hands down winner in our home!! I found the recipe off of a fun blog titled, Just Get Off Your Butt and Bake! (Since you said it so nicely lol)! She has tons of great looking recipes that I can't wait to try out! I threw this one together fairly quickly, and once all your ingredients are put together, it goes by more smoothly! (I should also add I was in a major hurry trying to get this done before DJ left for work, and finished just in time!) Let's get started...
Ingredients
1 lb. fresh broccoli-broken into pieces & steamed for 2 minutes
3 cups of cooked chicken-broken into little pieces
1 1/2 c Cheddar Cheese-shredded
2 tubes of Ritz Crackers
1 stick of melted butter
1 TBS Poppy Seeds
SAUCE
1/3 c butter-melted
1/4 c cornstarch dissolved in 1/2 of a cup of cold water
1/3 c Chicken Broth
1/4 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. pepper
2 c Milk
1 1/2 c shredded Cheddar cheese
Pre-heat your oven to 350 degrees. In a greased 9x13 pan layer the steamed broccoli on the bottom, then add the shredded chicken. Set this aside for now! In a saucepan, melt the one stick of butter and add the poppy seeds. Set the temperature to low once these two ingredients have been incorporated. In a large Ziploc bag, add the Ritz crackers, and take a rolling pin and crush the crackers. Don't make the pieces too small (more chunky pieces)! Once you have your cracker crumbs, pour the crumbs into the saucepan with your butter and poppy seeds and stir together! Add the 1 1/2 c of shredded cheddar cheese to the pan (on top of the chicken). Keep the saucepan on low for now! In a separate sauce pan, you're going to melt the 1/3 cup of butter. Add the cornstarch, broth, salt, pepper, and milk and stir together! I waited until this was all heated through before I added the 1 1/2 cups of shredded cheddar cheese. Once you have all the ingredients stirred together, your sauce should now be a much thicker consistency. Pour the sauce over the cheddar cheese layer in your pan, then top it off with your Ritz cracker crumb mixture from the other pan! Place all this in the oven (uncovered) for 30 minutes! Let it cool for a couple minutes, and the rest is history!! Seriously, we probably would have taken down the whole pan by ourselves last night if we had been given the chance...it was THAT good!! This is now going in our "favorite dishes" book!! It seems like a lot of work, but there's no chopping, just a lot of standing by the stove making sure all your saucepans are behaving! Had I not been rushing around like a crazy person, this would have been a very easy dinner to make!
Fresh broccoli (prior to tearing it all apart and steaming it)
Here is the broccoli in it's steam bath!
Make sure when you are making the corn starch and water mixture that your water is VERY COLD! This will thicken up quickly and stick to the bottom of your bowl! So, I made my mix right before I was ready to put it in the sauce pan!
The good thing about this recipe is that it doesn't take all the Ritz crackers from the box! I love to snack on these and club crackers!!
This is the Ritz cracker, butter and poppy seed mix! If you look closely you can see the tiny poppy seeds in there :)
Here it is out right out of the oven, and part of it is already gone!
DELICIOUS!!
Stay tuned for some great recipes!!
I don't know about ya'll but I am more than excited for Spring to finally be here and STAY here!! We had beautiful weather this past weekend (partially), and now we are back to chilly. cloudy days! (I'm pretty sure it might have just sleeted a little bit here)! I have been looking up Spring accessories, clothes, decorations and recipes for a couple weeks now! I came across this fun Etsy shop with some great items! Check it out if you haven't already found her yourself!
This pocket purse is only $14... DEAL!! She really has some crazy cute stuff!
Now I need to go decide what's next on the menu!
Until next time...
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