Chicken Divan

Ingredients

• Butter

  Unsalted

  ¼ cup or 57g

• Wheat flour

  White, all-purpose, unenriched

  ¼ cup or 31g

• Half and half cream

  Fluid

  1 ½ cup or 363g

• Water

  Plain, clean water

  ½ cup or 118g

• Cream of chicken soup

  Canned, condensed

  2 can (10.75 oz) or 610g

• Broccoli

  Frozen, chopped, unprepared

  2 package (10 oz) or 568g

• White rice

  Long-grain, regular, raw, unenriched

  1 cup or 185g

• Chicken breast

  Broilers or fryers, meat only, cooked, roasted

  4 cup, chopped or diced or 560g

• Cheddar cheese

  2 cup, shredded or 226g

• Bread crumbs

  Dry, grated, plain

  1 cup or 108g

Directions

1. In a small saucepan, melt 1/4 cup butter. Add flour, stirring until blended. Stir in the cream and cooking sherry or water; cook and stir until thickened and bubbly. Cook and stir 2 more minutes. Blend in soup until smooth; remove from the heat and set aside. Place broccoli in an ungreased 13x9-in. baking dish. Cover with rice and then half of the sauce. Top with chicken. Stir shredded cheese into remaining sauce; pour over the chicken. Melt the remaining butter and toss with bread crumbs. Sprinkle over the casserole. Bake, uncovered, at 350° for 35-45 minutes or until heated through.