Chicken breasts cooked in a vibrant and flavorful spicy apricot and plum sauce is a culinary delight that tantalizes the taste buds. Bursting with sweet, tangy, and slightly spicy notes, this remarkable dish combines the tenderness of chicken with the lusciousness of fresh apricots and plums, creating a harmonious balance of flavors that will leave you craving for more.
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SPICY APRICOT-GLAZED CHICKEN
Save yourself a trip to the store and check the fridge first. Chicken turns sweet and hot when you pull out the chili sauce, mustard and apricot preserves. -Sonya Labbe, West Hollywood, California
Provided by Taste of Home
Categories Dinner
Time 20m
Yield 4 servings.
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- Preheat broiler. In a small saucepan, combine the first five ingredients; cook and stir over medium heat until heated through., Place chicken in a 15x10x1-in. baking pan coated with cooking spray. Broil 3-4 in. from heat until a thermometer reads 165°, 6-8 minutes on each side. Brush occasionally with preserves mixture during the last 5 minutes of cooking.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 209 calories, Fat 3g fat (1g saturated fat), Cholesterol 63mg cholesterol, Sodium 476mg sodium, Carbohydrate 23g carbohydrate (13g sugars, Fiber 0 fiber), Protein 23g protein.
SPICY APRICOT CHICKEN
Savory breaded chicken baked in a sweet and spicy apricot sauce! 10 minute prep and SO delicious!
Provided by Tiffany
Categories Main Course
Time 30m
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 375. Spray a baking dish with nonstick cooking spray.
- Add apricot preserves, 1 teaspoon garlic powder, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and crushed red pepper flakes to a medium sauce pan and bring to a slight boil. Place beaten egg in one bowl. In another bowl whisk together bread crumbs, 1 teaspoon garlic powder, and 1 teaspoon salt.
- Dip each chicken breast in the egg, tossing to coat, then in the bread crumb mixture, tossing to coat. Pour about 1 cup of sauce into prepared baking dish. Place chicken breasts side by side on top of sauce. Cover chicken with remaining sauce. Bake 20-25 minutes until chicken is cooked through. Serve warm.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 468 kcal, Carbohydrate 83 g, Protein 28 g, Fat 5 g, SaturatedFat 1 g, TransFat 1 g, Cholesterol 113 mg, Sodium 407 mg, Fiber 1 g, Sugar 52 g, ServingSize 1 serving
SPICY PLUM CHICKEN THIGHS
Steps:
- Plum Sauce: Use side burner or grill. Heat oil in a medium saucepan over medium-high heat. Add onions and garlic and cook until soft. Add ginger, chile pepper, cinnamon and cloves and cook for 2 minutes. Add remaining ingredients and cook until plums are soft and mixture has thickened. Place mixture in a food processor and mix until smooth. Let cool.
- Preheat grill. Season chicken with salt and pepper to taste. Grill, on 1 side for 5 minutes, or until golden brown. Turn the chicken over, brush with the sauce and continue grilling for 3 to 4 minutes, turn over and brush with sauce. Continue grilling and brushing with the sauce until the chicken is cooked through, approximately 12 to 15 minutes.
APRICOT CHICKEN I
Tangy, fruity chicken made in just 3 easy steps! It's great served with rice.
Provided by Shirley Rickey
Categories Meat and Poultry Recipes Chicken Chicken Breast Recipes
Time 1h30m
Yield 6
Number Of Ingredients 4
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Place the chicken pieces in a 4 quart casserole dish. Mix the soup mix, dressing and jam together, and pour over the chicken.
- Cover dish and bake for 1 hour in preheated oven.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 455.8 calories, Carbohydrate 55.7 g, Cholesterol 68.4 mg, Fat 13.8 g, Fiber 1.4 g, Protein 28.5 g, SaturatedFat 2.3 g, Sodium 1134.3 mg, Sugar 44.4 g
APRICOT-GLAZED CHICKEN BREASTS
Chicken with apricot jam, olives, and capers. From some magazine, some place, at some time. It is one of my personal favorites.
Provided by Charles Ross Carozza
Categories Meat and Poultry Recipes Chicken Chicken Breast Recipes
Time 40m
Yield 4
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Mix white wine, apricot jam, jam, brown sugar, olives, 1/3 cup olive oil, red wine vinegar, capers, cilantro, garlic, and caper brine in a large bowl.
- Heat 2 tablespoons oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook chicken breasts until browned, about 1 1/2 minutes per side. Do not overcook.
- Arrange chicken in a single layer in a baking dish. Pour apricot-olive mixture on top.
- Bake in the preheated oven until chicken is no longer pink in the center, 20 to 30 minutes.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 724 calories, Carbohydrate 57.3 g, Cholesterol 117 mg, Fat 32.9 g, Fiber 0.9 g, Protein 45.3 g, SaturatedFat 5.2 g, Sodium 1043.4 mg, Sugar 44.5 g
SPICY APRICOT-GLAZED CHICKEN
A two-ingredient topping transforms plain-Jane poultry into a tangy treat for the whole gang.
Provided by Martha Stewart
Categories Food & Cooking Ingredients Meat & Poultry Chicken Chicken Breast Recipes
Time 20m
Number Of Ingredients 4
Steps:
- Heat broiler, with rack set 4 inches from heat. In a small bowl, stir together jam and red-pepper flakes; set glaze aside.
- Place chicken on an aluminum-foil-lined baking sheet; season with salt and pepper. Broil until chicken begins to turn opaque, 5 to 6 minutes.
- Brush glaze on chicken. Broil until glaze is browned and an instant-read thermometer inserted in thickest part of chicken registers 165 degrees, 4 to 5 minutes more.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 236 g, Fat 2 g, Protein 39 g
CHICKEN BREASTS IN SPICY APRICOT AND PLUM SAUCE
Saw this on TV and could almost smell it. Had to try it myself. Tweaked it just a little bit (cut down on the fat).
Provided by Chef Dudo
Categories Chicken Breast
Time 1h5m
Yield 4 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Cook plums, apricots, ginger, chillies, apples, balsamic vinegar and water together in a heavy based pan for about 20 minutes to make a sauce.
- In another pan, brown the chicken breast in the oil.
- Add the sauce and cook together gently for about 15 minutes.
- Season well with salt and pepper.
- Serve over rice or cous-cous.
ROASTED CHICKEN WITH SMOKEY APRICOT SAUCE
Provided by Robin Miller : Food Network
Categories main-dish
Yield 4 servings with leftovers
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Coat a large roasting pan with cooking spray.
- Season chicken all over with salt and black pepper. Arrange chicken in prepared pan and set aside.
- In a small bowl, combine apricot preserves, soy sauce and liquid smoke. Mix until blended. Pour mixture over chicken.
- Roast 35 minutes, until chicken is cooked through. Serve 4 chicken breast halves with this meal and refrigerate remaining chicken until ready to use (or freeze up to 3 months). Garnish with parsley.
SPICY APRICOT CHICKEN THIGHS
Chicken thighs are inexpensive and make a great dinner for a large group. The apricot glaze gives the meat a tempting gloss and the few minutes in the broiler crisps the skin to perfection. Leftovers are great the next day, too! Just turn oven on 375° and heat chicken for 10-15 minutes. -Marcy Gallinger, Deer Park, Washington
Provided by Taste of Home
Categories Dinner
Time 1h5m
Yield 6 servings.
Number Of Ingredients 11
Steps:
- In a small bowl, combine the first five ingredients; rub over chicken. Place chicken, skin side up, on a rack in a shallow roasting pan. Bake at 375° for 35-40 minutes or until a thermometer reads 170°-175°., Meanwhile, in a small saucepan, combine sauce ingredients; bring to a boil over medium-high heat, stirring frequently. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally., Turn chicken. Spoon some sauce over chicken. Broil 4-6 in. from the heat for 3-5 minutes or until browned. Turn chicken again; baste with sauce. Broil for 2-3 minutes longer or until browned. Serve with remaining sauce.
Nutrition Facts :
CHICKEN BREASTS WITH APRICOT-ONION PAN SAUCE
From: Testing Skillets to Find the Best, Recipe by: Melissa Rubel of Food & Wine Magazine, November 2008. After sautéing chicken breasts, Melissa Rubel adds diced onions and white wine to sweep up the delicious browned bits left in the skillet, then sweetens the sauce slightly with dried apricots and apricot preserves This is quick to prepare and looks lovely when finished. Serve with a full bodied California Viogniers are iseal with the fruity sauce on these chicken breasts. Try the juicy 2006 Bonterra or the floral, complex 2007 Alban Central Coast. The sauce is wonderful would be great on rice pilaf, an interesting vegetable and a salad with cherry tomatoes and some arugula.
Provided by Manami
Categories Chicken Breast
Time 35m
Yield 4 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 15
Steps:
- Preheat the oven to 350°F
- In a bowl, cover the apricots with hot water & 3 Tablespoons of apricot brandy and let stand until soft, about 15 minutes; drain.
- Meanwhile, dry the chicken with paper towels and season with salt and pepper.
- In a stainless steel skillet, heat the oil & crushed red pepper flakes, if using.
- Add the chicken, skin side down, and cook over moderately high heat until golden brown, 5 minutes.
- Flip and cook about 3 minutes longer.
- Transfer the chicken to a baking sheet and roast for about 14 minutes.
- Add the onion, garlic, thyme and bay leaf to the skillet.
- Season with salt and cook over moderate heat until the onion is tender.
- Add the wine and boil until reduced by half, scraping up the browned bits in the skillet.
- Add the chicken stock, apricots and apricot preserves and bring to a boil.
- Cook over high heat until the sauce thickens.
- Off the heat, swirl in the butter until melted.
- Discard the thyme sprigs and bay leaf.
- Season the sauce with salt, & pepper.
- Transfer the chicken to plates, spoon the sauce on top and serve.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 655.1, Fat 31.1, SaturatedFat 9.4, Cholesterol 173.6, Sodium 299.2, Carbohydrate 30.8, Fiber 2.5, Sugar 21, Protein 56.9
APRICOT-GLAZED CHICKEN WITH DRIED PLUMS AND SAGE
Provided by Dave Lieberman
Categories Chicken Fruit Herb Poultry Bake Dinner Dried Fruit Apricot Plum Fall Kidney Friendly Dairy Free Wheat/Gluten-Free Peanut Free Tree Nut Free Soy Free Kosher
Yield Makes about 10-12 servings
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 400°F.
- Trim any extra fat from the chicken pieces and transfer them to a large roasting pan or broiler pan. If you don't have a roasting pan that's large enough, use 2 identical 9 x 13-inch baking pans.
- Mix together the preserves and the vinegar in a mixing bowl. Dump over the chicken, add the remaining ingredients, and toss with the chicken until the chicken is evenly coated. Arrange the chicken pieces in the pan(s), skin side up, and spaced evenly apart.
- If you want to prepare this in advance, you can do everything up to this point, cover the pans, and put them in the fridge until you're ready to roast the chicken, but bring it back to room temperature before roasting.
- Roast until the tops of the chicken pieces are browned, about 35-40 minutes.
- Dave's Take:
- Recipes that use a lot of whole peeled garlic cloves are a perfect reason to look for containers of peeled garlic in the produce section of the supermarket. In my experience, Christopher Ranch is the best brand out there right now. The garlic is always fresh and potent.
Tips:
- For a crispier chicken breast, marinate it in the apricot and plum sauce for at least 30 minutes before cooking.
- If you don't have apricot preserves, you can substitute peach preserves or orange marmalade.
- If you want a spicier sauce, add a pinch of cayenne pepper or red pepper flakes.
- Serve the chicken breasts with steamed rice or quinoa and a side of vegetables.
- For a healthier version, use grilled or baked chicken breasts instead of fried.
- If you're short on time, you can use store-bought apricot and plum sauce instead of making your own.
Conclusion:
This recipe for Chicken Breasts in Spicy Apricot and Plum Sauce is a delicious and easy-to-make weeknight meal. The chicken is tender and juicy, and the sauce is sweet, spicy, and flavorful. It's a great dish for serving to guests, and it's also perfect for meal prepping. So next time you're looking for a quick and easy dinner recipe, give this one a try. You won't be disappointed!
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