Chicken Cordon Bleu Bake Recipe - Mock Chicken Cordon Bleu

🧂 Ingredients

• 4 chicken breasts

  (boneless, skinless cut into halves or quarters lengthwise)
• 12 slices ham
• 1 ½ c (150 g) Swiss cheese

  (shredded)
• 1 ½ c Ritz crackers

  (1 packaged tube, crushed)
• 6 Tbsp (84 g) butter

  (reserve half, 3 Tbsp, for the sauce)
• 3 Tbsp (22.5 g) Parmesan cheese

  (grated)
• ½ tsp (3 g) salt
• ¼ tsp (0.5 g) papper
• 3 Tbsp (42.5 g) all-purpose flour
• 1 c (236 ml) milk
• ½ c (118 ml) chicken broth
• ½ Tbsp (10 g) Dijon mustard
• 2 tsp (10 ml) Worcestershire sauce

Instructions

• 1 Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) and grease or use a non-stick
  spray to coat the bottom and sides of a 9 x13 baking sheet or 1.5 qt casserole
  dish.
• 2 Layer chicken breast strips over the bottom of the baking dish, top with a layer
  of ham then a layer of the shredded Swiss cheese.
• 3 Crush the Ritz crackers in their packaging and then place in a medium size
  mixing bowl. Add the grated Parmesan cheese, salt and pepper, stir to combine.
  Melt the first ½ of the butter (3 Tbsp) and pour onto the cracker mixture, then
  stir again to coat the ingredients.
• 4 Top the layered chicken, ham and Swiss cheese with the buttered cracker mixture
  and bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 35-40 minutes or until the top
  cracker layer is golden brown and the chicken has an internal temperature that
  meets or exceeds 165 degrees F (74 degrees C).
• 5 In a saucepan, add the remaining half of butter (3 Tbsp) and melt slowly while
  the pan comes to a medium heat. Once the butter is melted, whisk in the flour
  and cook for about a minute before slowly whisking in the chicken broth and milk
  (I added salt & pepper at this point which is optional but recommended).
• 6 Continue to whisk for the remaining cooking time (about 5 minutes) as the sauce
  will thicken rapidly once it gets back to a medium temperature. Turn the heat
  off once the sauce has thickened and add the Worcestershire sauce and Dijon
  mustard then serve over Chicken Cordon Bleu Bake. Enjoy!

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