Guy Cooks With Kids: Mikaela's Cranberry Apple Chicken Breast

Name: Guy Cooks With Kids: Mikaela's Cranberry Apple Chicken Breast
Prep time: 1 h 15 min
Cook time: 1 h 15 min
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 237 milliliters apple juice; 237 milliliters chicken stock; 1 cinnamon stick; 118 milliliters cranberry juice; 473 milliliters all-purpose flour; 1 large green apple, peeled and chopped into 1-inch cubes; 2 teaspoons ground pepper; 1 teaspoon honey; 1 teaspoon lemon juice; 2 Tbsps finely chopped Italian parsley; 3 teaspoons salt, divided; 454 grams boneless, skinless chicken breasts each); 6 Tbsps unsalted butter, divided

Guy Cooks With Kids: Mikaela's Cranberry Apple Chicken Breast might be just the main course you are searching for. One portion of this dish contains about 65g of protein, 43g of fat, and a total of 1213 calories. This recipe covers 46% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 2. If you have salt, chicken stock, cinnamon stick, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the green apple you could follow this main course with the This Apple Bread Tastes Just Like Apple Pie as a dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 1 hour and 15 minutes.

Instructions

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Preheat a large saute pan over medium heat, add 2 tablespoons butter and allow to melt. When the butter is melted and bubbling, add the chopped apple. Stir in the lemon juice and honey with a spatula to coat the apples. Continue to cook until the apples are golden, stirring occasionally, 10 to 15 minutes. (If the apples get too brown, remove from the heat and set aside).

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Lemon Juice

Apple

Butter

Honey

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Spatula

Frying Pan

In another large saute pan over medium-high heat, add 2 tablespoons butter and allow to melt. While the butter melts, mix together the flour, 2 teaspoons salt and the pepper in a large bowl. Dredge the chicken breasts in the flour mixture until thoroughly coated. Carefully place the dredged chicken into the heated pan and brown on each side, about 5 minutes per side.

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Chicken Breast

Whole Chicken

Butter

Pepper

All Purpose Flour

Salt

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Bowl

Frying Pan

Remove the chicken breasts to a baking sheet or oven-safe warming plate and cover with foil. Set aside.

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Chicken Breast

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Baking Sheet

Aluminum Foil

Oven

In the same saute pan, add the chicken stock and apple and cranberry juices to deglaze the pan.

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Chicken Stock

Cranberries

Apple

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Frying Pan

Add the cinnamon stick.

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Cinnamon Stick

Add the remaining 1 teaspoon salt to the mixture, whisking to combine. Allow the sauce to reduce until it reaches a nice thick brown gravy consistency, 35 to 40 minutes.

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Brown Gravy

Sauce

Salt

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Whisk

Remove the cinnamon stick.

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Cinnamon Stick

Add the cooked apples to the thickened sauce and whisk in the remaining 2 tablespoons butter.

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Apple

Butter

Sauce

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Whisk

Add the cooked chicken breasts to the apples and gravy, to reheat briefly (about 1 minute). Plate the chicken breasts, top with the apples and sauce and sprinkle with the parsley.

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Cooked Chicken Breast