Baked Apricot Chicken

Only 6 ingredients needed to marque this delicious Baked Apricot Chicken. Perfect for a weeknight meal. Tender, juicy chickenhearted thighs are coated successful a saccharine and spicy sauce.

Short Prep Time

It lone takes 10 minutes max to prep this recipe. Just premix unneurotic the condiment ingredients and determination implicit the chicken.

How Long To Bake

50 minutes is plentifulness of clip to get the chickenhearted afloat cooked and let the saucy glaze to thicken.

Ingredients Needed

• 6 to 8 Boneless, skinless chickenhearted thighs– You tin usage bone-in chickenhearted thighs if you wish.
• 1 cupful Apricot Preserves– Peach Preserves tin beryllium utilized instead.
• Catalina Dressing– Adds sweetness and further flavor. French dressing tin beryllium substituted.
• Dry Onion Soup Mix– adds seasoning and tons of bulb flavor. Because it has tons of sodium, determination is nary request to brackish the chicken.
• Dijon Mustard– yellowish mustard oregon spicy mustard tin beryllium utilized instead.
• Cayenne Pepper– Adds immoderate vigor to equilibrium the sweetness.

Can Chicken Breasts Be Used?

You tin usage boneless, skinless chickenhearted breasts but they volition navigator successful little clip and hazard drying retired if you overcook them. Check them aft astir 35 minutes. Chicken is done erstwhile it reaches an interior somesthesia of 165 degrees F. An instant work thermometer is helpful.

How Spicy Is This Dish?

Double the magnitude of cayenne capsicum if you privation a important magnitude of heat.

How To Serve Baked Apricot Chicken

Great with a greenish crockery with Blue Cheese Vinaigrette oregon Creamy Parmesan Dressing and immoderate achromatic rice.

Storage

Leftovers volition support successful an airtight instrumentality successful the refrigerator for 4 days.

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• Baked Margarita Chicken
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Baked Apricot Chicken

Only 6 ingredients needed to marque this delicious Baked Apricot Chicken. Perfect for a weeknight meal.

Course Dinner, Main Dish

Cuisine Southern

Keyword baked chicken

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 50 minutes

Servings 6

Calories 345kcal

Ingredients

• 6 to 8 boneless, skinless chickenhearted thighs
• 1 cup apricot preserves
• 3/4 cup Catalina dressing
• 1 packet dry bulb crockery mix
• 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
• 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees and lightly grease a 9×12-inch baking dish.

  Place chickenhearted successful baking dish.
• In a mean bowl, disturbance unneurotic the remaining ingredients.

  Pour substance implicit chicken.
• Bake uncovered for 50 minutes. After 30 minutes, I similar to spoon the condiment implicit the chickenhearted to overgarment it more.

Nutrition

Calories: 345kcal

The station Baked Apricot Chicken appeared archetypal connected Spicy Southern Kitchen.