Just look at that yumminess. I'm still swooning. And I'm full. You'd probably like to know the recipe, but let me start with a story:
When I was a teenager, I adored Robin Jones Gunn's Christy Miller Series. These books were life changing for me. This kick-started my love of Christian fiction, but it also provided me with an excellent example and a friend (of the book lover's sort). Just like Christy, I started writing letters to my future husband (even though I didn't know he was) and I gave them to my husband, Dennis, the night before our wedding. It was super special and it's something I will share with any daughters that we have (as well as these books). Now, you need to understand these books were written in the late 80s-early 90s. So I never expected that now, in 2014, when I was a newlywed, Gunn would write a new series featuring Christy! Christy and Todd: The Married Years! Though I have just started this lovely book, I am SO excited to meet up with Christy after all of these years. And, this is where the idea of Ritzy Chicken came from (Christy is making it in the beginning of the book). So, as a new wife who is building a list of her husband's favorite recipes, I decided to try this out. And, success! He loved it, I loved it, and the Miller family is happy (and quite full)! So here is the recipe:
Ritzy Chicken Casserole (Courtesy of Diana Rattray: About.com Southern Food)
Ingredients:
· Ritz
crackers (2 sleeves)
· 1 can cream of chicken
soup
· 1 cup sour cream
· 1/2 cup chicken broth
· 4 to 6 boneless
chicken breast halves, cooked
· 4 ounces melted
butter
Preparation:
Crumble one sleeve of
Ritz crackers in the bottom of a 2 to 2 1/2-quart casserole dish. Drizzle half
of the melted butter over the crackers. Mix chicken with soup, sour cream, and
broth. Pour over crackers. Crush the remaining sleeve of crackers over the chicken
mixture. Drizzle the remaining melted butter over the crackers. Bake at 300°
for 30 to 40 minutes, until hot and bubbly.
Above recipe taken from: http://southernfood.about.com/od/chickencasseroles/r/bl90911q.htm
This was extremely easy to make. We liked it with rice, though next time, I am going to try it with noodles (I just love egg noodles). And the green beans were a perfect veggie accompaniment! Try this! Let me know what you think, though I'm pretty sure you'll be swooning, too. ;)
I, too, have read the Christy series multiple times, and I finally decided I will try this recipe. Question - this recipe says chicken breast halves, cooked, but the original recipe in the book doesn't say cooked Did you cook the chicken before mixing it with the other ingredients and baking?
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