Chicken & Broccolli Bake

Another delicious easy recipe that takes only 10 minutes to make and 25 minutes to bake.

2 Slices of bread ground into breadcrumbs
8 Small frozen Broccolli florets
2 Chicken breasts (diced)
1 Clove of garlic (finely sliced)
1 Chicken stock cube
Approx 1/2 pint of milk
4 oz Butter
Some plain flour
Pinch of mixed herbs
Seasoning
A little cooking oil

Place the oil in a frying pan and bring to heat. When hot add the chicken and cook until very lightly golden, take off the heat, add the herbs and put to one side.

Next, melt 1/2 of the butter in a saucepan over a gentle heat and once melted take off the heat. Stir into this a little flour until you have a thick yet smooth paste. Whilst stirring add 1/2 the milk and the stock cube. Put the saucepan back on the heat and stir until the sauce thickens, adding more milk if necessary. If you are using frozen Broccolli keep the sauce quite thick as the water from the Broccolli will thin the sauce as it cooks. Once the sauce is thickened ad the garlic, chicken and Broccolli, season and mix well. Spoon the mixture into a shallow oven dish and set aside.

Melt the remainder of the butter in a saucepan and add to this the breadcrumbs cooking gently until they crispen but dont brown them. Sprinkle the breadcrumbs over the sauce mixture and bake in the oven at 180 degrees or baking oven of an Aga for approx 25 minutes until the sauce is bubbling and the breadcrumbs browned.

Written by Day Lily on 2007/07/16 | Permalink to this article