Chicken Divan Recipe
A delicious chicken and broccoli casserole
 This Chicken Divan Recipe is an easy to make classic casserole which combines tender pieces of chicken breast with broccoli in a mustard and cheese cream sauce. It's topped off with a crunchy coating of crushed crackers.
To speed things up with this recipe we used instant rice which cooks with the chicken and cream sauce for the first 20 minutes. To prevent the broccoli from becoming mushy, it's added at the last 10 minutes of cooking.
Chicken Divan
Ingredients:
- 4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts trimmed of fat
- 2 cups heavy cream
- 2 cups chicken broth
- 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
- 2 cups instant rice
- 2 (10-ounce) packages frozen broccoli spears , thawed and chopped
- into bite sized pieces.
8 ounces sharp shredded cheddar cheese
- 36 Ritz crackers (1 sleeve), crushed to coarse crumbs
Preparation:
- Adjust an oven rack to the middle position and heat the oven to 450 degrees.
- Cut chicken breast into 2-inch chunks.
- Spread chicken pieces in a 9 by 13-inch baking dish and season with salt and pepper.
- Whisk the Cream, Broth, and Mustard together in a large pot and bring to a boil.
- Stir the rice into the cream mixture, then pour over the chicken.
- Bake, uncovered, for 20 minutes.
- Remove baking dish from oven
- Add chopped broccoli and cheddar cheese into the baking dish.
- Sprinkle the Ritz crumbs over the top.
- Continue to bake until the edges are bubbling and the crumbs are browned, 5 to 10 minutes.
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