"Gourmet" Oven-baked chicken with pasta and cream sauce 7/17/2009

Hey ya'll! So I went through my Louisiana cookbook and found an AWESOME recipe! It was just about the best chicken ever! All day I was thinking that I was craving sour cream, and wanted to cook something with sour cream in it. And then I saw this recipe!!! It tasted better than it sounds! I also saw a recipe for simple cream sauce, and thought it would be good over pasta! So here it is

The Chicken:

1/2 stick (1/4 cup) butter

1/2 pint (1 cup) of sour cream

1/2 tsp tarragon

1/2 tsp thyme

1/2 tsp paprika

1/4 tsp garlic powder

1/4 tsp salt

Crushed up Corn Flakes (it calls for 1 cup, but I used more than that)

4 chicken breasts. 

Melt butter in a 9 inch square pan. Set aside

Put the crushed corn flakes in another medium size bowl. 

Medium sized bowl, combine sour cream, tarragon, thyme, paprika, garlic powder and salt. Mix it up. Dip the chicken breasts into the mixture, then roll into the cornflakes, covering the entire breast. Place in the pan with the melted butter. Bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour. 

About 30 minutes before the chicken is done put some water in a saucepan for the pasta (start to heat it on medium low, so it doesn't start to boil). Then start the cream sauce. 

4 tablespoons Butter

4 tablespoons flour

1/4 teaspoon salt

1 cup milk

This yields about 1 cup, could feel probably about 2 or 3 people, depending on how much they like sauce lol. And it's pretty thick

Melt the butter over medium low heat. Blend in flour and salt. Gradually add milk, stirring constantly!! Cook until thick and smooth. ( should take about 10 minutes. I like to use a whisk). 

After it is done, remove from heat and turn up the heat on the water. Add the pasta and boil it until it's tender. The pasta SHOULD be done around the same time as the chicken. 

Put the sauce over the pasta and mix it up. Or, if you want, you can put it over the chicken. That would be yummy too! 

I also cooked some sugar snap peas. You can cook any veggie that you want. 

It all turned out really well! Very very tasty and flavorful!

Ya'll should try this one! It was really really good! 

I don't have anything else too exciting to say lol. So Goodnight and good eating!