Oven Chicken With Dried Beef Gravy - cream of chicken soup

Method

• Spray 2-quart glass casserole baking disk with non-stick cooking spray.
• Preheat oven to 250 degrees.
• Mix soup, sour cream and milk together in a large bowl.
• Set aside.
• The dried beef comes rolled inside of a glass jar.
• Leave it rolled up and cut into thin slices, then cut slices in half.
• Lay dried beef in the bottom of the prepared casserole.
• Place chicken on top in single layer.
• Pour soup mixture over chicken, being sure to cover the top of the chicken, even if some of mixture runs back into pan.
• Bake uncovered for 1-1/2 hours.
• Remove from oven and scrape the sauce from the sides of the casserole and mix it with the unbrowned sauce, spreading some sauce over the chicken.
• Return casserole to the oven and cook an additional 60-90 minutes, until sauce around chicken has browned slightly and is consistency of gravy.
• Serve chicken and gravy over cooked rice or pasta.
• To garnish, microwave peas 30 seconds; sprinkle over the chicken and rice/or pasta.
• NOTE: If sauce thickens too much before chicken has cooked at least 2-1/2 hours, add 1/4 cup water.
• Stir into gravy and continue cooking.
• NOTE: For Real gravy-lovers, double the soup, sour cream and milk so you'll be sure to have enough!
• This gravy is also delicious served over biscuits.