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Sweet Apple and Chicken Recipe
This chicken apple recipe is better if you use tart apples and unsweetened apple juice but you can use sweet apples if you like the sweet flavor. Apple cider makes the dish more tart. This apple and chicken recipe is a complete meal because it contains chicken for protein, vegetables, potatoes, and juice. You can serve it by itself or with some fresh parsley on top, which would add color and a little more flavor as well.
It is simple to make, very nutritious and you can leave it cooking for seven hours, making it the perfect dinner for busy weeknights or if you are out working all day. The caraway seeds and thyme add a little bit of flavor to this chicken apple recipe but the chicken, vegetables and apples provide nearly all the flavor the dish needs and you will love the fresh taste.
The fresh ingredients in this apple and chicken recipe make it taste outstanding. A lot of crockpot recipes call for frozen vegetables to be added but these have a tendency to go mushy sometimes, which makes the use of fresh food preferable. Fresh vegetables are no more expensive than frozen ones but you just have to prepare them by peeling or chopping them, rather than opening a package, which is often the case with frozen veggies. It is worth taking the time to choose good quality fresh vegetables and prepare them properly, if you want to make the best crockpot meals.
Tasty Chicken Apple Recipe
Ingredients -
4 chicken breasts, cubed
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon thyme
⅛ teaspoon caraway seeds
¼ teaspoon black pepper
4 carrots, peeled and diced
4 potatoes, diced
1 bay leaf
1 ¼ cups apple juice
1 tablespoon cider vinegar
2 tart apples, peeled and diced
1 rib celery, diced
1 onion, diced
2 tablespoons olive oil
Preparation:
Heat the olive oil in a skillet over a medium heat and add the chicken.
Brown it for 3 minutes per side.
Layer the potatoes, carrots, onion, and celery in that order in your crockpot.
Combine the thyme, salt, pepper, and caraway seeds and add half this mixture to the crockpot.
Add the chicken.
Sprinkle the diced apples over the top and add the rest of the seasoning mixture.
Add the bay leaf, cover, and cook for 7 hours on low or until the chicken is cooked through and the vegetables are tender.
Remove the bay leaf before serving.
(Serves 4)
Photo Description:
As this photo shows, the combination of carrots, potatoes, chicken and more gives you a colorful-looking dish. The crockpot in the photo has a low, medium, and high setting, although some only feature low and high. This apple and chicken recipe needs to cook for seven hours on a low heat, to slowly cook everything and encourages the different flavors to blend, as only crockpot, cooking does. This is a deliciously sweet chicken recipe, which makes a nice dinner in any season and for any occasion. The use of fresh ingredients gives it a superior flavor.
