HEALTHIER APRICOT CHICKEN
Serves 4
This is a wonderful delicious and simple meal for the whole family –
quick, budget friendly and simple to cook.
INGREDIENTS
2 onions, sliced
600g organic/free-range chicken breast fillets, cut into chunks
4 ripe sweet apricots, cut in half, stone removed (see notes for using dried apricot)
1 cup chicken or vegetable stock
2 heaped teaspoons whole fruit apricot jam
A good grind of black pepper
- Sauté the onion over a medium heat in a little olive oil until softened.
- Add the chicken and brown on both sides. This should take about 5 minutes.
- Pour in the stock and deglaze the pan, allowing all the caramelised pan juices to combine with the stock.
- Blend the fresh apricots into a puree. You should have 1 cup of apricot puree.
- Add the apricot puree to the chicken and mix through. Simmer for about 2 minutes or until the chicken is cooked through.
- Add the whole fruit apricot jam as well as a good grind of pepper then mix through.
- Taste your sauce and adjust where necessary to your palate – adding a touch more stock or jam if necessary. Your apricot sauce should be lovely thick, tasty and glossy.
NOTES
Can use 12 organic sundried apricots. Soak in desired stock as per recipe, blend together until smooth. You will develop a lovely apricot base for the whole dish.
To change it up a bit, I sometimes add aromatics such as cinnamon, ginger, chilli and saffron threads.