Chicken Divan - cooking recipe

Ingredients

8 chicken breast halves
1/4 c. diced onion
1/4 c. diced celery
salt to taste
3 (10 oz.) pkg. frozen broccoli spears
2 (10 3/4 oz.) cans cream of chicken soup
1 c. mayonnaise
3 Tbsp. lemon juice
1 tsp. curry powder
1 c. grated Cheddar cheese
1 c. buttered bread crumbs or stuffing mix

Preparation

Simmer chicken breasts in small amount of salted water with onion and celery for 45 minutes.
Cool in stock.
When cool, skin and debone.
Cook broccoli in salted water until tender-crisp. Layer broccoli in bottom of buttered 9 x 13 x 2-inch baking dish. Put chicken breasts on broccoli spears.
Mix undiluted soup, mayonnaise, lemon juice and curry powder.
Pour over casserole. Sprinkle with cheese and top with buttered crumbs or stuffing mix. Bake at 350\u00b0 for 30 minutes or until hot and bubbly.