Apple Cider Chicken

Name: Apple Cider Chicken
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 3 pounds, bone-in, skin-on chicken pieces (see note); , Salt and pepper; 2 teaspoons, vegetable oil; 1 , onion, chopped fine; 2 , garlic cloves, minced; 2 teaspoons, minced fresh thyme; 2 teaspoons, all-purpose flour; 1 large, Golden Delicious, Cortland, or Jonagold apple, peeled, cored, and cut into 3/4-inch chunks; 1 cup, apple cider; 1/4 cup, apple brandy (see note); 1 teaspoon, cider vinegar

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Appears in Cook's Country December/January 2010, Cook's Country TV

Main Courses

Chicken

It takes more than cider to infuse chicken with “to-the-bone” apple flavor.

SERVES4

TIME55 minutes

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For super-crisp skin on our Apple Cider Chicken, we cooked the chicken in a skillet, skin side down, until it was a deep, chestnut brown. Although we generally recommend a “low and slow" technique for braising chicken in the oven, in t...

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