[CH] This evening's meal...
Doug Irvine (dougandmarie@home.com)
Sun, 05 Aug 2001 20:58:53 -0700
Had some left over chicken from a roasted bird, so decided to do this:
Southwest Chicken Casserole
2 cups cooked chicken, cut up
1 jalapeno, seeded and chopped
1 serrano, seeded and chopped
1/4 cup onion chopped fine
Make a cream sauce....2 tbls butter, 2 tbls flour, 1/2 cup milk,
except simmer the peppers and onion in the butter, then add the flour,
then the milk to make a sauce...taste for seasoning, then add the cut up chicken.
Then take another pan, add 4 cups water, bring to a boil, tsp salt, add
1 cup yellow cornmeal, bring to a boil and beat the heck outta it, until
you have corn meal mush, grits if you will(you too, Randy!) Add 1 cup of
grated cheddar cheese to the corn mush, stir well and let this cool
somewhat. Butter a 2 qt casserole dish, and when the mush is cool, place
half of it on the bottom of the dish. Add the chicken in the cream sauce
and top with the remaining corn meal mush(polenta). Grate some more
cheese and keep it aside. Sprinkle the top of the corn meal with Jim C's
smoked hab powder(careful, 10 hot) and place in a 350 F oven for 10
minutes, remove and cover with the balance of the cheddar, then back in
for another 10 minutes...serve with cream corn, or niblets or whatever,
but also a tossed salad. Enjoy...it made an excellent meal,my much
better half, said"Post it" Cheers, Doug in BC....not THAT old, Pam!