Apple Pecan Bacon Chicken

By flour_arrangements

Tasty!

Ingredients

• You can use 4-6 chicken drumsticks for this recipe.
• Bacon drippings (from about 4 strips of bacon)
• 1 iron skillet
• 1/4 cup chopped sweet onion
• 1/4 cup chopped leeks
• 2 TBSP honey
• pinch of pepper
• 1/2 cup gluten-free chicken broth
• 1 large Macintosh apple
• 2/3 cup pure apple cider
• 1/4 cup warm water
• 1 1/2 TBSP brown sugar
• 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1/3 cup chopped pecans
• 1/3 cup cranberries
• 1 strip of bacon
• Aluminum foil
• 1/4 tsp crushed bay leaves
• 1/4 tsp thyme

Details

Servings 2

Preparation

Step 1

You can use 4-6 chicken drumsticks for this recipe.
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Preheat oven to 350

Cook 4 strips of bacon in an iron skillet.

Save the bacon drippings in the skillet.

Chop 1/4 cup each of sweet onion and leeks.

Cook onion and leeks on medium/low in bacon grease (in the skillet) for about 3 minutes.

Add chicken, use tongs to brown chicken drumsticks on all sides (watch for popping oil, be careful not to burn yourself).

Sprinkle chicken with pepper and add about 1 1/2 - 2 TBSP of honey.

Pour 1/2 cup chicken broth into skillet. Cover and cook chicken on low for about 20 minutes.

Flip chicken onto side that wasn't cooking and now cook for another 15-20 minutes on low while you prepare the apples.

Peel and slice 1 large Macintosh apple.

Pour 1/4 cup warm water and 2/3 cup pure apple cider into a sauce pan, add about 1 1/2 TBSP brown sugar and 1/2 tsp cinnamon. Then add about 1/3 cup roughly chopped pecans. Cook on medium/high for about five minutes (without apples). Then lower flamer to low, add apples and 1/3 cup cranberries and cook for about 5 minutes (you don't want them too soft, just cook until they are slightly soft but still somewhat crunchy).

Cover the chicken in the skillet with the apple mixture (use only 1/2 of the apple mixture if you use 4 drumsticks, use all of the cooked apples if you have 6 drumsticks). Sprinkle with thyme, bay leaves, and bacon bits (from 1 freshly cooked but cooled strip of bacon) and bake (COVERED WITH ALUMINUM FOIL!) for 10 minutes then turn chicken drumsticks over. Lastly, bake for about 15 more minutes minutes. Let cool then eat! :)