Apple Butter-Glazed Chicken

Hey Jude's Note:

We eat a lot of chicken and I'm always looking for new ways to fix it. My husband loves apple butter so when I found this recipe in The Chicago Tribune, I had to try it! The instructions are for cooking indoors, on a grill pan, but I cooked it outdoors on my gas grill.

• Total Time: 55 mins
• Prep Time: 10 mins
• Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 5

• 1 cup apple butter
• 3 tablespoons yellow mustard
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1 teaspoon celery seed
• 1 medium onion, minced
• 1 broiler-fryer chickens, cut up or 5 bone-in skin-on chicken breast halves
• 1 teaspoon salt
• fresh ground pepper

Directions:

1. Heat the apple butter, mustard, butter, sugar, celery seed and onion to a boil in a medium saucepan over medium-high heat. Remove from heat; cool.
2. Place the chicken in a food storage bag. Pour half of the apple butter mixture over the chicken; reserve remaining mixture. Seal bag; smush around so the chicken gets thoroughly coated. Refrigerate 1 hour.
3. Heat a grill pan over high heat. Brush off extra sauce from the chicken and discard. Cook chicken, in batches if necessary, turning occasionally, until browned, about 20 minutes. Continue cooking, brushing with reserved marinade, until chicken is cooked through, 15-25 minutes longer.

Reviews

[WI Cheesehead]

Instead of using cut up chicken, we grilled a whole chicken. We didn't marinade it, just put it on the chicken and grilled it. We also put a cut up apple and some onion cut up in the cavity. Not sure if we weren't patient enough or if it was the bird, but we cooked it for well over an hour and the bird still wasn't cooked through. We ended up microwaving some of it. It think I'll try it in the oven next time. The taste was wonderful though! UPDATE: I'm upping the stars bcz this is so versatile! I used Apple Syrup (which ended up thick like apple butter) and poured it over my chicken in the crockpot. It was delicious and made awesome chicken broth overnight. Definite keeper. I've made it a few times now.

[Chefcrystal]

I was looking for a recipe to use up some of my ingredients in the fridge. I used boneless skinless chicken breasts (which may have been my problem...but that is all I ever buy). I marinated for several hours and then grilled on the gas grill until done. It was okay, but not really to my families taste. We ended up putting it on buns and making grilled chicken sandwiches out of them (which we pretty good). I think my porblem was my expectation was nothing like the taste (I expected a sweeter chicken I think). Anyway, thank you for an unique recipe to try!