Creamy Chicken and Artichoke Casserole
From jaie 16 years ago
- 60 minutes to make
- Serves 4
What could be better than poached chicken breasts and artichoke hearts in a velvety sherry sauce with sautéed mushrooms?!?!
Ingredients
- 4 whole chicken breasts, about 1 pound each shopping list
- 14 ounces chicken broth shopping list
- 1-14 ounce can artichoke hearts, drained shopping list
- 6 tablespoons butter shopping list
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour shopping list
- 1/4 teaspoon salt shopping list
- 1/8 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper shopping list
- 1 cup half-and-half shopping list
- 1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese shopping list
- 2 tablespoons dry sherry shopping list
- 1/2 teaspoon dry rosemary shopping list
- 1/4 pound mushrooms, sliced shopping list
How to make it
- In a frying pan or Dutch oven, bring chicken broth to a simmer over medium heat.
- Place chicken breasts in broth in a single layer, cover, and poach until tender when pierced with a fork. (About 15 minutes)
- Lift chicken from broth and let it cool.
- Reserve 3/4 cup of the broth for sauce. If desired, save the rest for other uses.
- When cool enough to handle, remove skin and bones from chicken.
- Arrange chicken breasts in a shallow 8x12-inch baking dish. You may overlap them slightly.
- Put artichoke hearts evenly on top of the chicken and set aside.
- In a saucepan over medium heat, melt 4 tablespoons of butter.
- Blend in flour, salt and pepper and stirring, cooking until bubbly.
- Gradually stir in reserved chicken broth and half-and-half.
- Cook until mixture is boiling and thickens, stirring constantly.
- Add cheese, sherry and rosemary.
- Stir until cheese is melted and sauce is smooth.
- Pour sauce over chicken.
- In a frying pan, over medium heat, melt 2 tablespoons of butter.
- Add mushrooms and cook until golden brown.
- Arrange mushrooms down the center of the casserole.
- Bake, uncovered, at 325° for 30 minutes or until heated through.
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