Malibu Chicken

This recipe isn't an original as it turns out, although I didn't know that until just recently.   For some time now, I had been wanting a particular item that I remember my mother making.  As it turns out, this came from a restaurant we used to go to when I was younger.  Keller's not a huge fan of using frozen chicken patties, and that's ok, but I really wanted this chicken and ham and cheese concoction.  As it lucked out, I went to Indiana a couple weeks ago to help my folks move.  It was a perfect time to ask my mother if we could have some for dinner one night.  She was more than happy to fulfill my request.  Along with the  Malibu Chicken, she added some sweet potato tots and regular tater tots.  It was exactly what I wanted. 

Earlier this week I asked Keller if I could make some of the chicken one night for dinner and he agreed he'd give it a try.  This is an easy recipe.  You need three things-frozen chicken patties, lunchmeat ham (not a sweet variety-we used smoked ham), and Swiss cheese slices.   First, bake the chicken patties as directed.  A few minutes before the chicken patties are done, pull them out of the oven and add your ham slices and cheese.  Place them back in the oven for the last few minutes to finish baking the patties, heat the ham and melt the cheese.

If you'd like the mustard sauce, that's almost as easy-just mix equal parts of mayonnaise and yellow mustard together.  Since the sweet potato tots were so good, and Sam liked them as well, I thought I'd do those again, with the regular tater tots.  

Again, I know it's a simple dish, but sometimes the simple dishes are great for that night of the week when you don't want to do a lot of work.  

 

I've seen it also offered as a sandwich, Monte Cristo style.  Maybe that's an option since we still have a half bag of chicken patties...maybe....