Baked Chicken and Bacon-Wrapped Lady Apples

Name: Baked Chicken and Bacon-Wrapped Lady Apples
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 237 milliliters unfiltered apple cider; 8 slices thin slices bacon (from a 1/2-lb package); 1 teaspoons black pepper; 6 chicken thighs (2lb; with skin and bones); 118 milliliters cider vinegar; 2 sprigs fresh marjoram plus 2 teaspoons chopped fresh marjoram, or to taste; 12 lady apples (about 1 to 2 inches in diameter; 1 teaspoons salt; 1 Tbsp cold unsalted butter

Baked Chicken and Bacon-Wrapped Lady Apples might be a good recipe to expand your main course recipe box. This recipe serves 6. One serving contains 599 calories, 23g of protein, and 33g of fat. This recipe covers 16% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Head to the store and pick up lady apples, marjoram plus 2 teaspoons marjoram, pepper, and a few other things to make it today. To use up the unsalted butter you could follow this main course with the Almond Milk Chocolate Pudding as a dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 45 minutes.

Instructions

Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 400°F.

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Oven

Cook bacon in a 12-inch heavy skillet over moderate heat, turning over once, until edges are lightly browned but bacon is still flexible (it will continue to cook in oven), 6 to 8 minutes total.

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Bacon

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Frying Pan

Oven

Transfer to paper towels to drain, reserving fat in skillet.

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Paper Towels

Frying Pan

While bacon cooks, core apples, if desired, from bottom, with pointed end of a vegetable peeler or a paring knife, leaving stems intact. Wrap a slice of bacon around each of 8 apples, securing ends of bacon by piercing with stem or using half a wooden pick.

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Vegetable

Apple

Bacon

Wrap

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Peeler

Knife

Brush a 3-quart (13- by 9-inch) shallow baking dish with some bacon fat, then add apples to dish and bake, uncovered, 10 minutes.

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Bacon Drippings

Apple

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Oven

Meanwhile, pat chicken dry and sprinkle with salt and pepper.

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Salt And Pepper

Whole Chicken

Heat bacon fat in skillet over moderately high heat until hot but not smoking, then cook chicken, turning over once, until browned, about 8 minutes total.

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Bacon Drippings

Whole Chicken

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Frying Pan

Transfer chicken with tongs to baking dish, rearranging some of apples so that chicken fits in bottom of dish, and bake, uncovered, 5 minutes.

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Whole Chicken

Apple

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Baking Pan

Oven

Tongs

While chicken bakes, pour off fat from skillet and add cider, vinegar, and marjoram sprigs to skillet. Boil, stirring and scraping up brown bits, until reduced by half (about 3/4 cup), about 5 minutes.

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Marjoram