Apple Bacon Baked Chicken

Name: Apple Bacon Baked Chicken
Prep time: 3 h 15 min
Cook time: 3 h 15 min
Total time: 3 h 15 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 118 milliliters apple cider; 118 milliliters applesauce; 4 slices bacon, halved crosswise; 118 milliliters dried cranberries; 2 Granny Smith apples, quartered; 4 servings salt and ground black pepper to taste; 1 Tbsp olive oil; 4 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves; 118 milliliters stone-ground mustard; 2 sweet onions (such as Vidalia®), quartered

Apple Bacon Baked Chicken might be just the main course you are searching for. One serving contains 446 calories, 30g of protein, and 17g of fat. This recipe covers 21% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 4. It is a good option if you're following a gluten free, dairy free, and primal diet. Head to the store and pick up cranberries, granny smith apples, bacon, and a few other things to make it today. To use up the dried cranberries you could follow this main course with the Breakfast Cookies as a dessert.

Instructions

Soak cranberries in apple cider in a bowl until cranberries are rehydrated, 2 to 6 hours.

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Apple Cider

Cranberries

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Bowl

Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C). Coat bottom of a baking dish with olive oil.

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Olive Oil

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Baking Pan

Oven

Arrange chicken breasts in the prepared baking dish; sprinkle with salt and black pepper.

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Salt And Pepper

Chicken Breast

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Baking Pan

Whisk mustard and applesauce together in a small bowl; spoon over chicken breasts.

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Chicken Breast

Applesauce

Mustard

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Whisk

Bowl

Lay two half-slices of bacon atop each chicken breast. Arrange apples and onions around chicken.

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Chicken Breast

Whole Chicken

Apple

Onion

Bacon

Add cranberries, pouring any remaining apple cider over chicken. Cover dish with aluminum foil.

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Apple Cider

Cranberries

Whole Chicken

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Aluminum Foil

Bake in the preheated oven for 40 minutes.

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Oven

Remove aluminum foil and continue baking until bacon is crisp and chicken breasts are no longer pink in the center and the juices run clear, about 20 more minutes. An instant-read thermometer inserted into the center should read at least 165 degrees F (74 degrees C).

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Chicken Breast

Bacon

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Aluminum Foil

Kitchen Thermometer