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Easy Bake Battle - Deconstructed Poppy Seed Chicken

Coat your frozen chicken breasts with mayo before pressing on the cracker crumb topping. That thin layer of mayo helps the coating stick and browns beautifully while keeping the chicken underneath tender and moist, even straight from the freezer.

Easy Bake Battle - Deconstructed Poppy Seed Chicken
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Easy Bake Battle - Deconstructed Poppy Seed Chicken

Yield: 4 peoplePrep: 10mCook: 25mTotal: 35m

Gather

Ingredients

  • 4 frozen chicken breast (you can also use fresh I just used frozen for the challenge)
  • mayo
  • olive oil
  • salt
  • pepper
  • tarragon
  • 30 ritz crackers
  • 2 TBSP poppy seeds
  • 1 can cream of chicken
  • 1/3 cup chicken broth low sodium
  • 1/3 cup evaporated milk or heavy cream
  • 1 TBSP lemon juice

Let’s cook

Steps

  1. Preheat your oven to 425 degrees. Cover a sheet pan with foil.
  2. Place chicken breast on the foil. Coat the tops of each frozen chicken breast with mayo ( you can also use plain greek yogurt).;";
  3. Sprinkle salt, pepper, and tarragon over each coated chicken breast. Drizzle with olive oil.
  4. In a large ziplock bag crush 30 or so ritz crackers with the back of a wooden spoon to a crumb consistency. Pour poppy seeds in the cracker mix and shake well.
  5. Press a generous amount of the cracker crumb mix on each chicken breast.
  6. Cover with foil and bake about 25 minutes removing the foil the last 5 to crisp the crackers. Use a meat thermometer to make sure you hit 165 degrees and to ensure you do not overcook the meat.
  7. Start your sauce. In a skillet saute a teaspoon of minced garlic. Once fragrant pour in 1/3 cup of chicken broth, 1 can of cream of chicken, and 1/3 cup of heavy cream OR evaporated milk ( whatever you have on hand) . Mix well adding in the 1 tablespoon of lemon juice, 1/2 teaspoon of salt, 1 teaspoon of tarragon, 1 teaspoon of dried parsley, and a sprinkle of pepper. Cooking over high bring to a bubble until thickened.
  8. Build your plate. Smear the sauce on the bottom of your plate, placing the poppy seed chicken on top. Pair with my roasted broccoli (frozen hack from episode;ENJOY friends! ";s

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