Apple braised chicken is a healthy, quick, and easy gem of a recipe. Green apples, ginger, onion, and apple cider produce an incredibly flavorful low-fat winner. Perfect for a busy weeknight! You’re going to love this one!!
Apple Braised Chicken Recipe
This is one of my daughter’s favorite chicken dishes. Whenever I ask her what she would like to have included in the weekly menu planning, she immediately says, “Apple braised chicken!”. I love it because it’s not only delicious it’s relatively quick to put together and tastes like something that’s taken a long time to prepare. Can you say WIN! WIN!?! Perfect for a satisfying weeknight meal.
This recipe started out as a Weight Watchers recipe and while I believe I’ve kept it fairly low fat and healthy, it probably a few more calories than the WW recipe.
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How to Store and Make Ahead
- How Long Can You Keep This In The Fridge? This can be refrigerated for up to 4 days.
- Can You Freeze This? Yes, place it in an airtight container, heavy-duty freezer bag, or silicon resealable bag for up to 4 months.
- Make-Ahead Tips: This can be made a day ahead of serving and gently reheated on the stovetop.
Serving Recommendations
I like to serve this with a simple green vegetable or salad and some easy Bisquick drop biscuit, beer bread, or easy no-knead bread.
Step By Step How To Make How to Make
- Season chicken with salt and pepper then toss in flour.
- Sear chicken pieces in a skillet. Remove and set aside.
- Saute onions until lightly browned.
- Stir in apples, cider, chicken broth, salt and pepper, ginger, and chicken. Simmer until the chicken is cooked and the apples are tender.
- Add cornstarch mixture to the skillet to thicken the sauce. Check seasonings and add more salt and pepper.
Recipe Variations
- Use chicken thighs. Switch out the breasts for chicken thighs and create apple cider braised chicken thighs.
- Add dijon to taste and create apple dijon braised chicken.
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Apple Braised Chicken
Ingredients
- 4 tablespoons vegetable oil divided
- 4 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves, cut into large chunks
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 large onion sliced
- 2 medium granny smith apples cored and sliced
- 2 cups apple cider
- 1 cup chicken broth
- 1/2 teaspoon salt plus more to season chicken
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper plus more to season chicken
- 3/4 teaspoon dried ground ginger
- 2 tablespoons corn starch
Serving Suggestions:
- cooked white or brown rice
Instructions
- Season chicken. Sprinkle both sides of chicken generously with salt and pepper. In a large ziplock bag, add flour (1/4 cup) and chicken (4) and toss to coat evenly.
- Sear chicken. In a large skillet, heat two tablespoons of vegetable oil over high heat. Place chicken pieces in skillet and brown on medium-high heat until brown on both sides. You may need to do this in batches, depending on the size of your skillet. Don't crowd the chicken. Remove cooked chicken to a plate and set aside.
- Saute. Add the remaining 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil to the pan, reduce heat to medium, and add onion slices (1) and cook until tender and lightly browned.
- Braise. Stir in apples (2), cider (2 cups), chicken broth (1 cup), salt (1/2 teaspoon), pepper (1/4 teaspoon), ginger (3/4 teaspoon), and chicken. Bring to a gentle simmer and cover and cook until chicken is tender and cooked through and apples are nice and soft about 20-30 minutes.
- Thicken sauce + enjoy! In a small bowl, whisk together cornstarch (2 tablespoons) and about 1/4 cup pan juices until smooth. Add cornstarch mixture to skillet and stir constantly for about one minute. If the sauce isn't thickened to your liking, make another cornstarch and pan juice mixture and stir in. Check seasonings and add more salt and pepper, if needed to taste. Serve over cooked rice and enjoy!
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Notes
- Cooked rice is not included in the nutritional information.
Nutrition
Source Adapted From Weight Watchers
Thank God, I tried this recipe! I was looking for new chicken recipes and I found this. Love love love!
I’m glad you found this, Cindy! It’s our favorite here 🙂
Enjoy!
I can't wait to try this but I have a question. In the directions you say to add chicken broth but its not listed in the ingredient list. How much chicken broth do you add?
For a girl who loves apples, this recipe sounds great. I'm always looking for new ways to prepare chicken, so I'm even more excited. Thanks for sharing with me tonight. I hope you have a beautiful day tomorrow. The weekend is almost here! Hugs from Austin.
Sounds delish…we've done something similar with pork chops before. But I'll bet it's even better with chicken.
I'm smiling 'cause my kids always used to feel that way about a veal dish I made with apples. I bet they'd love this one too.
This meal sounds fantastic! I'm always looking for low cal and tasty chicken dishes and this is one that I can adapt for my son (who has tons of food allergies). Sounds awesome.
oh so yummy! you know it's awesome when the kids love it.
This sounds perfect for the fall!
wow what a cool recipe to combine apple and chicken
this sounds wonderful, my daughter would go for this.
Apples are excellent detoxifiers and apple juice can destroy viruses in the body but make sure you do not take too many apple seeds because it could be toxic if taken in large amount. I found out that the ingredients that you used on this recipe are really good for the health like apple cider vinegar, ginger and the oil is from vegetable. I my self want to try this recipe. thanks
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