Birthday Chicken

This Birthday Chicken is loved by everyone in our family but I don’t usually serve it to guests and have been reluctant to put it on the blog.  Even though it tastes great and everyone who’s had it enjoyed it, there’s one problem….it doesn’t look very appetizing.  My family thinks it looks yummy, but that’s only because we know how good it is.    

“Birthday Chicken” may seem like an odd name.  Well, we made it up.  We ate it for a long time but never had a name for it so we would call it, “that chicken with the yellow gravy”….again, not too appealing and quite long.  We decided to give it a real name, but couldn’t come up with anything.

We used to live in Pennsylvania, near extended family.  Each week we all went to my in-laws house for Sunday dinner.  When it was someone’s birthday, my mother-in-law would let that person choose their favorite meal and she would make it our Sunday dinner.  A frequently requested dish was this chicken (by several members of the family).  Over time we would refer to it by saying, “the chicken we always have for birthday meals”…so it was given the name “Birthday Chicken”.

Here’s the Recipe: 

• 8-10 boneless skinless chicken breasts 
• 1-2 packages of Buddig Beef (pictured below)
• bacon – 1 strip for each piece of chicken
• 2 cans cream of chicken soup
• 16 oz sour cream
• pepper to taste

*Preheat oven to 275 degrees for longer baking time or 350 for faster*

Found with the “processed” lunch meats….I know, I know…but just go with it for this one

Place a layer of beef in the bottom of a 9 x 13 pan 

Starting at the smaller end, roll each piece of chicken and wrap it with one piece of bacon

Place rolled chicken on top of beef

In a large bowl mix sour cream and cream of chicken soup

Spoon mixture over chicken

Bake at 275 for 3 hrs or 350 for 1-1 1/2 hours

It makes lots of “gravy” so it’s wonderful served over rice or noodles!

Birthday Chicken

2014-02-11 03:13:05

Serves 8

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Prep Time

10 min

Cook Time

2 hr

Total Time

2 hr 30 min

Prep Time

10 min

Cook Time

2 hr

Total Time

2 hr 30 min

Ingredients

1. 8-10 boneless skinless chicken breasts
2. 1-2 packs Budding brand beef
3. bacon - 1 strip for each piece of chicken
4. 2 cans cream of chicken soup
5. 16 oz sour cream
6. pepper to taste

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 275 degrees for longer baking time or 350 for faster
2. Place a layer of beef in the bottom of a 9 x 13 pan
3. Starting at the smaller end, roll each piece of chicken and wrap it with one piece of bacon
4. Place rolled chicken on top of beef
5. In a large bowl mix sour cream and cream of chicken soup
6. Spoon mixture over chicken
7. Bake at 275 for 3 hrs or 350 for 1-1 1/2 hours

Notes

1. This recipe makes a lot of "gravy" so it's great served with rice or egg noodles

By Danita @O Taste And See

O Taste and See https://otasteandseeblog.com/