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Fancy Pants Chicken Recipe


If I told you chicken wore bacon for pants, would this recipe interest you?  Who are you kidding?  Everyone loves bacon and if you don’t love bacon then I kinda feel sorry for you and hope that you like ice cream at least! 

This recipe is one that I’ve been making since I was old enough to stand up.  Not really.  I didn’t make it until when I first moved out from my parent's home and had to learn to progress from boiling water.  Those days when macaroni and cheese came out of a box and that was about all I knew how to make. My family still talks about this like it still happens today.  I'm old now, Mom.  I know "stuff" and there's some nonsense too, but I digress.

There are many names for this recipe:

Party Chicken
Company Chicken
Mushroom Cream Sauce Chicken
Chicken in Bacon pockets

I just call it Fancy Pants.  It’s fancy because it has bacon AND mushroom cream sauce.  That might be exaggerating just a bit as the cream sauce is just opening cans of cream of mushroom soup, evaporated milk, and mixing in sour cream but the reality is that the blend IS mushroom cream sauce for the chicken in bacon pants, so there you have it! 
It’s a little messy to assemble and my hands will smell like bacon for a few days, but it’s so easy!


Fancy Pants Chicken Recipe:

Ingredients:
4 large chicken breasts

1 can cream of mushroom soup

1 cup sour cream

¾ can evaporated milk

Hormel dried chipped beef

Bacon


Directions:
*Note: I typically tenderize the breasts, cut them in half, pound them a bit with the metal chicken breast pounder thinga-ma-bob and season them with garlic powder and a bit of onion salt (for a few hours ahead of baking) so they have a bit of flavor under the rich sauce they are baked in*

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

Lightly grease casserole dish or line with foil for easier clean up

Line bottom of dish with dried chipped beef

Then, in separate bowl, mix the cream of mushroom soup, evaporated milk, and sour cream until blended well and set aside

Wrap uncooked bacon around the chicken breasts

Lay wrapped breasts on top of the chipped beef

Pour sour cream soup mixture over all of it

Bake at 350 degrees for 1 & 1/2 hours


Its super easy to make and everyone I’ve ever made it for over the billion years I’ve been making it has LOVED it!  If you’ve made it, let me know and tell me what you call it!

This is what I made Steven when he spent the day with us to paint furniture!

You can read all about our DIY spray paint project HERE!

COCONUT CHESS PIE RECIPE HERE!

TURTLE POKE CAKE RECIPE HERE!



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