Ingredients
6 to 8 chicken breasts, boned 1/4 cup, sour cream
6 to 8 slices bacon mixed with 1/4 cu, p tlour
Directions
(Bacon and dried beef add the extra touch!)
1 2 1/4 -ounce package 1 lO-ounce can condensed dried beef
cream of mushroom soup (preferably lean and smoked)
Arrange dried beef on bottom of greased CROCK-POT. Wrap each piece of
boned chicken with a strip of bacon and place on top of the dried
beef. M ix the soup and sour cream together; pour over chicken. Cover
and cook on Low 6 to 9 hours. (High: 3 to 4 hours). Serve over hot
buttered noodles. (Recipe may be doubled for 5-quart model).
From Rival Crock-Pot cookbook, date unknown
Servings: 6 servings
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Categories: Chicken; Poultry
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