Overnight Chicken Strata
From krumkake 17 years ago
- 70 minutes to make
- Serves 12
Most of us enjoy the overnight breakfast dishes with eggs, meat, cubed bread, etc, all baked together in one pan. ..this is a "luncheon” version of the popular breakfast dish. I've served this plain or lightly drizzled with cheese sauce over the top (see Jack Black Melt for my cheese sauce recipe). Read more I think it might also work with salsa, sour cream and jalapeno slices on the side, though I have never tried that yet. See less
Ingredients
- 1 loaf French bread, cubed shopping list
- 4 cups cooked white chicken meat, cubed (or combination of ½ chicken and ½ ham) shopping list
- 2 tablespoons butter shopping list
- 8 ounces fresh mushrooms, sliced shopping list
- 1 small onion, diced shopping list
- 1 cup sliced celery shopping list
- 1 can sliced water chestnuts, chopped shopping list
- ½ cup mayonnaise shopping list
- 12 Velveeta or American cheese slices (or cheese of your choice – grated is fine, too) shopping list
- 4 eggs beaten shopping list
- 1 cup milk shopping list
- 1 can cream of mushroom soup shopping list
- 1 tablespoon Montreal chicken seasoning (by McCormick) shopping list
- Final layer: shopping list
- 2 cups crushed garlic croutons shopping list
- ¼ cup melted butter shopping list
How to make it
- Cover the bottom of a well-buttered 9x13 glass baking dish with bread cubes (using glass will give you a golden, crunchy crust).
- Top bread with cubed meat.
- Sauté veggies in butter until crisp-tender, then spread them over the meat layer.
- Drop spoonfuls of mayonnaise over the veggies, then with the back of the spoon, gently spread the mayonnaise over the top of veggies.
- Lay cheese slices (or grated cheese) over mayonnaise layer.
- Mix together eggs, milk, soup, seasoning; pour over cheese layer.
- Cover dish tightly with saran and foil; refrigerate overnight.
- BEFORE BAKING, remove saran and re-cover pan with foil only!
- Bake uncovered, at 350 degrees, for 1 hour.
- Remove from oven and top with the final layer.
- For final layer, top casserole with crushed croutons and drizzle with butter. Bake another 10 to 15 minutes. Allow casserole to set for 10 minutes before cutting into serving pieces.
- NOTE: If you would like to serve this with a cheese sauce over the top, see Black Jack Melt for the recipe.
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