Apple-Maple Glazed Chicken Breasts

Name: Apple-Maple Glazed Chicken Breasts
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups, apple cider plus an additional 2 tablespoons; 1/3 cup, light corn syrup; 2 tablespoons, maple syrup; 1 tablespoon, Dijon mustard; 1 tablespoon, distilled white vinegar; 1/8 teaspoon, red pepper flakes; , Table salt and ground black pepper; 1/2 cup, all-purpose flour; 4 , bone-in, skin-on chicken breast halves (about 12 ounces each), ribs removed, trimmed of excess fat and skin (see note above); 2 teaspoons, vegetable oil; 1 , medium shallot, minced (about 3 tablespoons)

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated September/October 2007

Main Courses

Fruit

Chicken

SERVES4

TIME1½ hours

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For a chicken recipe with perfectly rendered skin, moist meat, and a glaze with complex flavor, we browned the skin to combat flabbiness and gave it a light coating of flour, which provided a good grip for the glaze. Corn syrup, which is ha...

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