How To Make Apple Cider Baked Chicken
Sink your teeth into this succulent baked chicken, marinated with apple cider, herbs, and spices, and baked with tender apples, for a filling meal!
Serves:
Ingredients
- 1large onion,peeled, cut into eighths
- 1large lemon,sliced into thin rounds
- 2cupsapple cider
- 2tbspolive oil
- 4fresh thyme sprigs,plus more for garnish
- 2tbspapple cider vinegar
- 2tspdijon mustard
- 3garlic cloves,minced
- 2bay leaves
- ½tspsalt
- ½tspfreshly ground black pepper
- 6chicken legs,or thighs
- 2large apples,each sliced into eighths
- 1lbsmall red potatoes,or yukon gold, halved
Instructions
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Place a gallon-size heavy-duty zip-top bag into a large bowl.
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Add in the onion, lemon, apple cider, olive oil, thyme, mustard, garlic, bay leaves, salt, and pepper into the zip-top bag, combining well. Add the chicken to the marinade.
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Close the bag, place it in the refrigerator to marinate for at least 4 hours or up to 24 hours.
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
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Arrange the chicken pieces in a large roasting pan skin-side up. Pour all of the marinade, including onions and lemons over and around the pieces. Tuck the apples and potatoes around the chicken.
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Cook for 1 hour and 15 minutes, stirring once halfway through to re-coat everything with the marinade.
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Arrange the chicken and potatoes on a platter and sprinkle with fresh thyme leaves. Enjoy!
Nutrition
- Calories: 1389.67kcal
- Fat: 89.83g
- Saturated Fat: 23.61g
- Trans Fat: 0.31g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 39.17g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 18.25g
- Carbohydrates: 55.61g
- Fiber: 6.72g
- Sugar: 27.10g
- Protein: 88.09g
- Cholesterol: 479.88mg
- Sodium: 781.36mg
- Calcium: 110.07mg
- Potassium: 1929.82mg
- Iron: 5.67mg
- Vitamin A: 156.28µg
- Vitamin C: 35.06mg
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