Every once in a while, I feel like it’s time to eat a little healthier and cut back a bit. This is a good recipe for that. This recipe comes from one of my go-to cookbooks: Cooking Light: Way to Cook– the Complete Visual Guide to Everyday Cooking. It has pictures- LOTS of them (850 to be exact- for 200 recipes). And it has process pictures, which are tough to find nowadays. The cookbook goes through ways to do things… way to saute, way to grill meats, way to make yeast breads, way to braise, way to cook healthy, etc. And I’ve always loved this recipe for Chicken with Cider and Bacon Sauce.
Ingredients needed:
chicken breasts bacon salt and pepper sweet onion apple cider chicken broth
How to make Chicken with Cider and Bacon Sauce:
Chop up two slices of bacon and sizzle away until it’s nice and crisp. Use the real stuff (2 slices of regular- not turkey-bacon aren’t going to kill you, are they?) You’ll need the bacon grease to do the next part. While your bacon is cooking, pound out chicken breast halves to 1/2-inch thickness (for two reasons… ONE: the chicken cooks more evenly and will stay nice and moist, and TWO: It will make your serving of chicken look really big and therefore you will be more satisfied!)
Remove the bacon from the pan & fry up that chicken in the small amount of bacon grease that accumulated.
Remove the cooked chicken from the pan and tuck it into some foil to keep it warm. Add the onion, apple cider and chicken broth to the pan and boil until it reduces a bit. Add the bacon the pan, stir and the sauce is done. If you would like to have more sauce than is pictured here, plan to double the sauce ingredients and you will end up with a lot more. Some people like more bacon too. It’s up to you!
Add the chicken back to the pan and spoon the sauce over it to coat the chicken and warm it up a little bit.
Serve the sauce over the chicken and you’ve got yourself a yummy, quick, healthy chicken dinner.
Rice is a good choice to tuck underneath the chicken and absorb some of those sauce juices too. And if you’re trying to stick with a lower carb meal, just serve the sauce over the chicken and plate it with a salad. Enjoy!
Here are a few chicken recipes you might like to try:
Chicken with Mustard Chicken Breasts with Curried Apple Stuffing Indian Butter Chicken Chicken Saltimbocca Baked French Onion Chicken Chicken Marsala Spinach Stuffed Chicken Oven Baked BBQ Chicken
