BBQ Marmalade Chicken

Submitted by Elly in Canada

"This is a simple dish to make, very tasty. It can be made in a crock pot or the oven. This is delicious served with steamed broccoli and mashed sweet potatoes."

 

• Ready In: 1hr 10mins
• Ingredients: 6
• Yields: 3 cups
• Serves: 12

ingredients

• 1 cup orange marmalade
• 2 tablespoons soy sauce
• 1 cup of your favourite barbecue sauce
• 12 boneless skinless chicken breasts or 24 boneless skinless chicken thighs
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch
• 2 tablespoons cold water

directions

1. In a medium-size microwave-safe bowl, stir marmalade with soy sauce. Microwave, uncovered, on high until softened, 1 minute.
2. OR melt in a saucepan, stirring often.
3. Stir in barbecue sauce.
4. Place chicken in crock pot. Pour in sauce. Stir to coat.
5. Cover and cook on high setting 4 hours or low 6 hours.
6. To bake, preheat oven to 350F (180C). Place chicken in a large, ovenproof casserole dish that will hold at least 16 cups (4 L). Pour sauce over chicken. Stir to evenly coat. Set on a baking sheet to catch any drips if it bubbles over.
7. Bake, covered, in centre of preheated oven until chicken feels springy when pressed and sauce is bubbly, about 1 3/4 hours.
8. To thicken sauce, remove cooked chicken to a large serving bowl.
9. In a small bowl, stir cornstarch with water until dissolved.
10. Carefully ladle liquid from slow cooker or casserole into a medium-size saucepan.
11. Set over high heat. Bring to a boil. Stir in cornstarch mixture.
12. Reduce heat to medium. Stir until sauce thickens, 2 minutes. Pour over chicken.
13. Note: I prefer orange marmalade, ginger marmalade can be substituted. Recipe yields approximately 3 cups of sauce.

Reviews

[Tinkerbell]

Oh, yum! My family really enjoyed this recipe! It's super easy, smells & tastes wonderful. I used the oven method, because I didn't get it started early enough for the crock pot, and I scaled it down to feed 4 of us. I used orange marmalade and Jack Daniel's No. 7 Original BBQ sauce. I also thought that almost 2 hours of cooking was going to be too much for the 4 chicken breasts I was doing, so I baked them for 30 & then pulled them out of the oven, but left them covered, until the wheatberry salad and mixed veggies were ready to eat. The end result was deliciously moist chicken! :) DH & DS shredded their chicken & made sandwiches with it and extra sauce, while DD & I enjoyed the chicken as prepared. Thanks for sharing this recipe, Elly, we'll be making it again! Made & enjoyed in honor of your dear DH, Jim.

 

[B. M.]

I am quite surprised this dish received such high ratings. I prepared this dish exactly as described and the flavor is almost too bitter with a "burnt" kind of quality that left the dish tasting odd. The chicken was bland - and produced a very thin watery sauce. Had I not taken the sauce and turned it into a gravy using butter and cornstarch - then heavily "doctoring" it - the dish would have been really bad. I think adjustments should be made to cooking times as well as an effort to contain the chicken under the sauce to prevent dryness.

 

[Leslie]

I also scaled this down and prepared it in the oven, but the flavour was still just delicious! We loved this for it's taste and simplicity. Also, it's a real kid pleaser! Thanks Elly!

 

[Gerry]

I scaled this down and made in the oven, it was as good as I thought it would be! Will be making the full quantity when having family and friends in or for pot lucks - know it will make for one great crowd pleaser. Made in memory of Elly's DH.

 

[Irmgard]

I made a scaled down version of this recipe for dinner tonight, using the oven, since there were only two of us for dinner but this recipe is so good, I would definitely do the full quantity to bring to a pot luck or family dinner. We just loved the sauce! I served it with a side of cauliflower mashed potatoes and the sauce went well with that, too.