Chicken Breasts With Spiced Cranberry Sauce

Recipe Junkie's Note:

I don't remember where I got this, but it sure isn't your everyday, normal cranberry chicken!

• Total Time: 30 mins
• Prep Time: 10 mins
• Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 6

• 6 chicken breasts
• 1 (15 ounce) can jellied cranberry sauce
• 1/2 cup sweet sherry
• 1 1/2 cups chicken stock
• 1/2 teaspoon dry mustard
• 1/4 teaspoon grd ginger
• 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/4 teaspoon Chinese five spice powder
• 2 teaspoons prepared sweet mustard
• 1 tablespoon brown sugar
• 3 tablespoons butter

Directions:

1. Flatten breasts with mallet (1/4 - 1/2").
2. In small saucepan, combine the cranberry sauce, sweet sherry, chicken stock, dry and prepared mustard, ginger, nutmeg, Chinese five spice, and brown sugar.
3. Bring to a boil and simmer 10 minutes.
4. Melt butter in skillet and saute breasts til lightly browned and cook through.
5. Remove from skillet and keep warm.
6. Add cranberry mixture to butter in skillet.
7. With heat on high, reduce sauce to about half its volume and pour over breasts to serve.

Reviews

[evewitch]

I made this to use up a can of cranberry sauce that my son opened for no apparent reason. It was a very unique flavor, and was easy to put together. I used dry sherry because I didn't have sweet. I thought the sauce or chicken needed salt, but I use unsalted butter and my stock was also a less salt variety, so maybe just salt to taste. Jellied cranberry is not an ingredient I typically have in my pantry, so I don't know if I would return to this recipe or not, but I would definitely recommend it.

[Bogey'sMom]

Really good. Smelled awesome cooking and tasted even better. I used chicken tenders, but pounded breasts would probably look a bit more elegant.