Chicken Cordon Bleu Casserole | Food Wishes

Hello, this is chef john from foodwishes.com with chicken cordon bleu casserole.

That's right, I love finding new ways to do old recipes, especially when that new way turns out to be the best way.

Okay, I really do like this version better, except for one thing, which would be the appearance, since it does kind of look like we're going to eat a dish of breadcrumbs, but

that is a minor issue.

And this really did turn out amazingly well.

And to get started, let's take a look at the co-stars of the show, which would be some grated gruyere cheese, as well as any type of ham, preferably

smoked. And these are the two ingredients that turn regular chicken into chicken cordon bleu.

And to prep the ham, I'm just going to cut it into a small dice, since this came off a piece of what was sold as breakfast ham.

But if you're using thin sliced deli style ham, you can just go ahead and chop it up.

It's still going to work perfectly fine. And that's it.

Once we have our cheese grated and our ham diced, we'll pop those in the fridge until we need them,

and we'll move on to the other key element,

a nice crispy topping. And for that, we will take some panko breadcrumbs, which of course are larger and crunchier than regular breadcrumbs.