Creamy Poppy Seed Chicken Casserole

🧂 Ingredients

• 2 chicken breasts

  cooked and roughly chopped
• 3 tbsp butter
• 1/2 onion

  diced
• 2 cloves garlic

  minced
• 3 tbsp flour
• 1 1/2 cups chicken broth
• 1/2 cup milk
• 8 oz sour cream
• 1 tbsp poppy seeds
• salt & pepper

  to taste
• 2 tbsp butter
• 1 1/2 cups crushed Ritz crackers

Instructions

• 1 In a large skillet over medium heat, saute the onions in the butter until soft.
  Stir in the garlic and saute for an additional minute.
• 2 Stir in the flour until it's combined with the veggies. Cook, stirring, and
  another minute.
• 3 Add the chicken broth and milk, a little at a time, stirring each addition until
  it's completely incorporated and smooth- no lumps! Continue until all the
  liquid's been incorporated. Continue cooking over medium heat until the mixtures
  reduced slightly and thickened.
• 4 Stir in the chicken, and season with salt & pepper, to taste. Stir in the sour
  cream and poppy seeds, until evenly incorporated. Season with salt & pepper, to
  taste.
• 5 Transfer the mixture to a 9x13 baking dish and use a spatula to spread it out
  evenly. 
• 6 Melt the butter, and toss it with the crushed crackers coating them well.
  Sprinkle the cracker crumbs evenly out over top of the casserole.
• 7 Baked for 30 minutes at 350 degrees, or until the crackers are golden brown and
  the casserole's hot & bubbly. 
• 8 Serve over cooked white rice and enjoy!

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