Crispy Cheddar Chicken-Baked

The recipe states you may never "fry" chicken again...after tasting this "baked"  crispy chicken recipe. That titled, got us interested!  It also looked very simple and inexpensive to make.  It might become a regular at our house. We made mashed potatoes as the side dish.

Ingredients:

2 lb chicken tenders or 4 large chicken breasts

2 sleeves Ritz crackers

1/4 tsp salt

1/8 tsp pepper

1/2 cup whole milk

3 cup cheddar cheese, grated

1 tsp dried parsley

Directions:

• Crush crackers.  If using chicken breasts and not tenders, cut each chicken breast into 3 large pieces.  Pour the milk, cheese and cracker crumbs into 3 separate small pans.  Toss the salt and pepper into the cracker crumbs and stir the mixture around to combine. 
• Dip each piece of chicken  into the milk and then the cheese.  Press the cheese into the chicken with your fingers.  Then press the cheesy coated chicken into the cracker crumbs and press it in.  spray a 9 X 13 pan with cooking spray and lay the chicken inside the pan.
• Sprinkle the dried parsley over the chicken.  Cover the pan with tin foil and bake at 400 degrees for 35 minutes.  Remove the tin foil, bake for additional 10 -15 minutes, or until the edges of the chicken are golden brown and crispy.
• In a medium size sauce pan combine the cream of chicken soup, sour cream  and butter with a whisk.  Stir it over medium high heat until the sauce is nice and hot. Serve over the chicken.

Tupps Tidbits:  FOIL line the pan!!! Or you will spend the rest of your night scrubbing.

We both loved this dish.  The Ritz crackers made this pretty salty.  If you are not a big salt fan you should try making it with the low sodium or "hint of salt"  type of Ritz.  My husband said this was incredible and I have to agree.  This recipe is DEFINITELY A KEEPER!

Where did we find this one?  justapinch.com