Chicken Divan
- Ready In:
- 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 7
- Serves:
-
4
ingredients
- 4 whole boneless skinless chicken breasts, cooked until barely done
- 2 -4 tablespoons lemon juice, more to taste (sauce should taste lemony!})
- 2 (10 3/4 ounce) cans cream of chicken soup (or 1 each cream of chicken and cream of mushroom)
- 2 (10 ounce) packages frozen chopped broccoli, thawed and drained well
- 1 cup mayonnaise (or 1/2 cup mayonnaise and 1/2 cup milk)
- salt & freshly ground black pepper
- 1 cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese, more to taste
directions
- Cut each chicken breast in half and arrange on top of broccoli in a 9"x13" baking dish.
- Mix soup, lemon juice and mayonnaise, and season to taste with salt and pepper.
- Pour over chicken.
- Top with cheddar cheese.
- Bake at 375 degrees F for 30 minutes.
- Note: Whenever boneless skinless chicken breasts are on sale, we season a bunch of them generously with granulated garlic, seasoned salt, and freshly ground black pepper, wrap them in foil, and bake them until just done.
- We freeze 3-4 half breasts to a Ziploc bag, and use them for quick dishes such as this one.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Toby Jermain
Houston, TX
I WAS retired oilfield trash since 1999, who has lived in Houston TX for the last 25 years, though I'm originally from California. I'm Texan by choice, not by chance! I am now working in Algeria 6 months a year, so I guess that gives new meaning to the term SEMI-retired. I grew up in restaurants and worked in them for 13 years while getting through high school and college, working as everything from dishwasher to chef, including just about everything in between. At odd intervals I also waited tables and tended bar, which gave me lots of incentive to stay in school and get my engineering degree.
During the 33 years since, I have only cooked for pleasure, and it HAS given me a great deal of pleasure. It's been my passion. I love to cook, actually more than I love to eat. I read cookbooks like most people read novels.
My wife and I both enjoy cooking, though she isn't quite as adventurous as I am. I keep pushing her in that direction, and she's slowly getting there.
We rarely go out to eat, because there are very few restaurants that can serve food as good as we can make at home. When we do go out, it's normally because we are having an emergency junk-food attack.
My pet food peeves are (I won't get into other areas): are people who post recipes that they have obviously NEVER fixed; obvious because the recipe can't be made because of bad instructions, or that are obvious because it tastes horrible. I also detest people who don't indicate that a recipe is untried, even when it is a good recipe. Caveat emptor!