Cider-Braised Chicken with Apples, Bacon, and Sage

Name: Cider-Braised Chicken with Apples, Bacon, and Sage
Prep time: 1 h
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 473 milliliters hard apple cider (see note above); 3 slices bacon, finely chopped; 1 Tbsp flour; 3 Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored, cut into 1/8-inch thick slices; 1 Tbsp heavy cream; 4 servings Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper; 2 Tbsps olive oil; 3 sprigs plus 1 tablespoon fresh sage leaves, divided; 3 Tbsps shallots, minced (about; 907 grams whole chicken legs (about; 2 Tbsps whole grain mustard

Cider-Braised Chicken with Apples, Bacon, and Sage might be just the main course you are searching for. This recipe serves 4. One portion of this dish contains around 25g of protein, 36g of fat, and a total of 565 calories. If you have plus 1 tablespoon sage leaves, heavy cream, flour, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the kosher salt you could follow this main course with the Low Fat Crumbs Cake (Kosher-Dairy) as a dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 1 hour.

Instructions

Pat chicken legs dry with paper towel and season with salt and pepper.

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Salt And Pepper

Chicken Leg

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Paper Towels

Heat oil in Dutch oven over over medium high heat until just smoking.

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Cooking Oil

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Dutch Oven

Place chicken into pot, skin side down, and cook until well browned, about 5 minutes (use oil screen if splattering). Turn over and cook another 3 minutes.

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Whole Chicken

Cooking Oil

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Pot

Transfer chicken to plate and pour off all but 2 tablespoons fat.

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Whole Chicken

Add apples and cook, stirring, until just softened and caramelized, about 5 minutes.

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Apple

Transfer apples to bowl and reserve.

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Apple

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Bowl

Add bacon and shallots to pot and cook until shallots have softened and bacon has rendered but not crisped, about 3 minutes (reduce heat if browning too quickly).

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Shallot

Bacon

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Pot

Whisk in cider, scraping up browned bits on bottom of pot.

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Cider

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Whisk

Pot

Whisk in mustard, 3/4 teaspoon salt, and 1/2 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper. Nestle chicken (skin side up) and sage sprigs into liquid, and bring to a simmer. Cover, reduce heat to low, and gently simmer until chicken is cooked through and very tender, about 40 minutes (adjust heat to keep at gentle simmer).

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Ground Black Pepper

Whole Chicken

Mustard

Sage

Salt

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Whisk

Transfer chicken to serving plate.

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Whole Chicken

Whisk cream into cooking liquid and simmer 1 minute.

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Cream

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Whisk

Transfer 1/2 cup of the cooking liquid to a small bowl and whisk in flour, then return to pot. Bring to a boil to thicken. Stir in apples and chopped sage, and season to taste.

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Apple

All Purpose Flour