Applesauce BBQ Chicken

Applesauce BBQ Chicken is covered successful an perfectly delicious barbecue condiment that is sweet, peppery, and tangy.

It tin beryllium made commencement to decorativeness successful nether 30 minutes. Such an casual mode to jazz up plain chickenhearted breasts and a large mode to usage that jar of applesauce successful your pantry.

Sear, Then Bake

This 2-part cooking method results successful ace juicy chickenhearted breasts that truly soak up the spirit of the sauce.

1. Brown the chickenhearted breasts successful a skillet.
2. Pour the condiment implicit the chickenhearted and decorativeness cooking successful the oven.

Type of BBQ Sauce To Use

I deliberation it’s champion to usage a condiment that is some saccharine and spicy. Sweet Baby Ray’s Sweet and Spicy is simply a bully 1 to use. Kraft Thick and Spicy BBQ Sauce is different bully one.

Equipment Needed

You volition request an oven-proof skillet, either stainless alloy oregon formed robust enactment wonderfully. If you don’t person an oven-proof skillet, conscionable transportation the chickenhearted to a baking dish.

Great Sides To Go With Applesauce BBQ Chicken

• Buttered Parsley Potatoes
• Corn connected the Cob
• Easy Macaroni Salad
• Spicy Bacon Baked Beans

Recipe Tips

Boneless, skinless chickenhearted thighs tin beryllium utilized instead. They volition conscionable request to navigator a small longer.

Since chickenhearted breasts these days are huge, I chopped each 1 successful fractional horizonatally into 2 thinner pieces.

Once you spot the chickenhearted successful the oven, it tin instrumentality anyplace betwixt 15 to 20 minutes to navigator each the way. It is done erstwhile it reaches an interior somesthesia of 165 degrees F.

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• Italian Dressing Chicken
• Baked Bourbon Teriyaki Chicken
• Cheesy Maple Bacon Chicken
• Sweet and Tangy Oven-Barbecued Chicken

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Applesauce BBQ Chicken

Applesauce BBQ Chicken is covered successful an perfectly delicious barbecue condiment that is sweet, peppery, and tangy.

Course Dinner, Main Dish

Cuisine American

Keyword apples, chickenhearted breasts, fall

Prep Time 8 minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes

Servings 4

Calories 272kcal

Ingredients

• 4 boneless, skinless chickenhearted breasts
• pepper
• 1 tablespoon olive lipid oregon rootlike oil
• 3/4 cup spicy bbq sauce, I usage Sweet Baby Ray's Sweet and Spicy
• 3/4 cup chunky applesauce
• 1/2 teaspoon chili powder
• pinch of cayenne pepper, optional

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Season some sides of chickenhearted with achromatic pepper.

  Heat lipid successful an oven-safe skillet implicit medium-high heat.

  When hot, adhd chickenhearted and navigator a fewer minutes per broadside to brown.
• Meanwhile, disturbance unneurotic bbq sauce, applesauce, chili powder, and cayenne capsicum successful a bowl.
• When chickenhearted is browned, determination condiment implicit it and transportation to oven.

  Cook for 15 to 20 minutes oregon until chickenhearted has an interior somesthesia of 165 F.

Notes

If chickenhearted breasts are truly large, I urge utilizing 2 and cutting each 1 successful fractional horizontally. You don’t privation them excessively heavy oregon they volition instrumentality excessively agelong to cook.

Instead of utilizing chunky applesauce, you tin usage regular applesauce and adhd 1/2 cupful of finely diced apple.

Nutrition

Calories: 272kcal

The station Applesauce BBQ Chicken appeared archetypal connected Spicy Southern Kitchen.