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Chicken breasts with apples, lemon, and honey

Chicken breasts stuffed with butter, garlic, thyme, apples, and lemon, then baked and brushed with honey. Serve with rice. Serves 4.

Slovak cuisine · Translated from Slovak ·

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Recipe at a glance

Prep time
20 min
Cook time
25 min
Total time
45 min
Temperature
180 °C (350 °F)
Servings
4 servings
Difficulty
Easy
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Chicken breasts with apples, lemon, and honey are an easy oven-baked dish made with just a few ingredients. Slits are cut into the chicken and filled with butter, thyme, garlic, and alternating slices of lemon and apple. The chicken breasts bake for 25 minutes at 180 °C (350 °F), then are brushed with a mixture of honey, salt, and pepper and baked for another ten minutes. Serve with mashed potatoes or rice; this dish also works well for guests.

Ingredients

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Instructions

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  1. Pat the chicken dry with a paper towel, season with salt, and cut slits into it. Slice the lemon and remove the seeds. Slice the peeled garlic, butter, and cored apples.

    Place a piece of butter, thyme, and garlic into each slit, then add alternating slices of lemon and apple.

    Chicken breasts with apples, lemon, and honey

  2. Transfer the chicken breasts to a greased baking sheet and bake in an oven preheated to 180 °C (350 °F) for about 25 minutes. Mix the honey, salt, and pepper in a bowl. Remove the chicken from the oven, brush with the honey mixture, and bake for another 10 minutes.

    Serve with mashed potatoes or rice.

    Chicken breasts with apples, lemon, and honey

Tip: Choose firm, tart apples so they hold their shape in the slits. Pour the pan juices over the mashed potatoes or rice.

Nutrition facts

Approximate values per serving, calculated from the ingredients

Energy
352 kcal
Protein
35 g
Carbohydrates
27 g
of which sugars
19 g
Fat
12 g
of which saturates
6.0 g
Fiber
4.4 g
Salt
3.4 g

Calculated from the raw ingredients, without frying oil. Where an amount is “to taste”, typical amounts are used. Food composition: USDA FoodData Central and product labels.

This recipe was translated from the Slovak original: Kuracie prsia s jablkami, citrónom a medom

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