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Apricot Chicken Recipe

Add Step-by-Step Photos	Annieamie / All my dishes 2 years, 2 months ago A fabulous and simple French chicken recipe! The chicken is stuffed with butter and dried apricots. The apricots give the chicken an incredible fruity and rich flavor. This is a great dish to serve for company and those special dinners. This is a ... More Prep:30m Cook:120m Servings:6	Annieamie
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Ingredients

1 whole, cleaned and dried roasting chicken

2 cups of dried apricots

1 stick of salted butter

salt and pepper

Directions

Place dried apricots in warm water for 30 minutes to soak before starting to prepare the chicken for baking.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Clean and salt the cavity of the chicken. Dry your chicken completely. Do not pierce the skin of the chicken.

Sprinkle the chicken lightly with salt and pepper.

Place the whole stick of butter into the cavity of the chicken.

Drain the apricots and stuff the chicken completely. You do not need to close the cavity of the chicken.

Place chicken into baking pan or dish breast side up and bake for an hour and a half, at 350 degrees, basting at least three times during baking.

Check to make sure that the chicken has fully baked by pulling the leg away from the body.

Remove chicken from oven and let rest for 20 minutes.

Remove apriots with spoon and discard. You can eat these if you like but I usually discard them.

Slice chicken and drizzle with some of the "juice" in the pan over the chicken slices or pieces and serve.

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Comments

chefmeow 2 years, 2 months ago said:
Yum. Bookmarked. Thanks for a great post.

shepherdrescue 1 year, 5 months ago said:
This sounds WONDERFUL! Did you invent it or ?

pat2me 1 year, 2 months ago said:
This looks awesome......I love most roasts with apricot!

pointsevenout 1 year ago said:
What temperature is the oven?

More importantly, how can you garner a 5-fork rating without anyone knowing the bake temperature?

The recipe sounds good, I'm not knocking it, but for the lack of temperature detail I can not make this recipe.

annieamie 1 year ago said:
When I was a youngster, our neighbors were French. Marie Francoise would make several chicken this way and invite us over for dinner. This is where I learned to make the chicken dish.

I'm sorry that I didn't add the temperature in the original posting of the recipe. Its 350 degrees. Bon appetite!

pollymotzko 9 months, 2 weeks ago said:
Hello once again,
I am going to enjoy making this dish as I have everything for it. I rated it a 5 which on here is the best you can get. The chicken is in my freezer, the apricots are in my pantry and the butter is in the fridge.
I usually bake any chicken dish at 350 to 400 degrees.

Paulette Le Pore Motzko

lor 2 months ago said:
Ohhhhhh yummmmmmm... chicken and apricots, how perfect is that. You've got my HIGH 5 and I can't wait to try it. I've got the chicken and the apricots and I'm ready to make it for dinner. Thanks Annie and I'm sure glad I noticed this winning recipe.

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