Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, chicken cordon bleu casserole. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
My Chicken Cordon Bleu Casserole will knock your socks off. It is so much easier than a traditional rolled and breaded cordon bleu and has even more flavor. This has chicken, ham, and swiss in a creamy dijon sauce.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have chicken cordon bleu casserole using 18 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken Cordon Bleu Casserole:
- Prepare topping
- Take 6 tbsp unsalted butter
- Take 1 1/2 cup panko bread crumbs
- Take 1 1/2 tsp crushed dried parsley
- Get 1 salt & pepper
- Prepare casserole
- Prepare 6 cup cooked chicken, diced or shredded (rotisserie chicken is excellent)
- Get 1/2 lb very thinly sliced deli-style honey ham, rough chopped
- Make ready 1/4 lb thin sliced baby Swiss cheese
- Take sauce
- Make ready 4 tbsp butter
- Prepare 4 tbsp flour
- Make ready 3 1/4 cup milk
- Prepare 2 tbsp fresh squeezed lemon juice
- Prepare 1 tbsp dijon mustard
- Take 1/2 tsp smoked paprika
- Take 1/4 tsp white pepper
- Make ready 1 salt
Chicken Cordon Bleu Casserole has layers of chicken, ham, cheese sauce, and buttery Panko breadcrumbs. This is an easy dinner that everyone loves. It's the week after Thanksgiving and I have no desire to cook anything unless it's as easy as pie. Super easy to make Chicken Cordon Bleu Casserole recipe is made completely from scratch.
Instructions to make Chicken Cordon Bleu Casserole:
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter a 9- x 13-inch baking dish. Set aside.
- Put cooked shredded or diced chicken on the bottom of the baking dish. Rough chop the ham and scatter it over the top of the chicken. Lay the Swiss cheese on top of the ham.
- To make the sauce: Melt the butter in a large sauce pot over medium heat. When butter is melted, quickly stir in the flour to form a smooth roux. Do not brown! Once the roux is smooth and bubbly, slowly pour in the cold milk while stirring briskly to make a smooth sauce. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly until the sauce thickens. Stir in the lemon juice, Dijon mustard, salt, smoked paprika and white pepper. Bring sauce just back to a low boil and turn off heat. Pour sauce evenly over the casserole, being certain to get some of the sauce around the edges of the pan.
- To make the topping: Melt the butter in the microwave in a medium sized microwaveable bowl. Heat it for 30 seconds at a time and stop once it’s melted. Take the bowl out of the microwave and stir in the panko bread crumbs, seasoning salt and crushed dried parsley. Sprinkle over the top of the casserole.
- Bake casserole uncovered for 45 minutes until hot and bubbly throughout and topping has turned a light golden brown.
- Remove from oven and allow to cool for 5-10 minutes prior to serving.
The foundation for this Chicken Cordon Bleu Casserole recipe is the traditional Chicken Cordon Bleu dish, which is essentially a chicken breast, pounded thin, stuffed with a slice of ham and a slice of Swiss cheese. It can be baked or fried and then is typically smothered in a creamy sauce. Low Carb Chicken Cordon Bleu Casserole Recipe. Traditionally, cordon blue is chicken wrapped around cheese or with a cheese filling. I took the classic flavors of cordon bleu - chicken, ham, and swiss - and combined them into an easy.
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