Comfort Chicken and Gravy
Chicken baked with a cheese and cracker crumb coating until crispy then topped with a creamy chicken gravy~ serve it with rice and green beans for an ultimate comfort food meal!
Ingredients
Chicken
- 2 lbs chicken tenders or boneless breasts cut into tenders
- Ritz crackers
- Salt and pepper
- garlic powder to taste
- mayonnaise I recommend Duke's or Hellman's
- 3 cups grated cheddar cheese
- butter for topping
Gravy
- 1 can Cream of Chicken soup
- 2 T sour cream
- 2 T butter
- 1/4 c buttermilk
Instructions
Chicken
- Crush crackers and season with salt, pepper and garlic powder
- Coat chicken with mayo, then cheese, pressing cheese onto chicken.
- Dip in crackers and press to coat.
- Grease baking dish and put chicken in pan.
- Top with small butter pieces.
- Chicken can be refrigerated at this point for cooking later if desired
- Bake covered at 350 for 30 min. Uncover and bake another 15 minutes or until chicken is cooked through and golden.
Gravy
- Melt butter and combine with chicken soup, buttermilk and sour cream
- Refrigerate at this point if making ahead if desired
- Heat gravy at the end of chicken baking time, either in the microwave in one minute intervals, stirring or in a sauce pan on the stove top
- Put hot gravy over chicken and serve