Crock Pot Chicken With Cranberries

Mikekey's Note:

A nice easy dish for those busy days around the holidays. Put this on before going shopping and dinner is waiting when you get home! Serve with rice or couscous and a veggie. Boneless chicken thighs could be used also. EDITED TO ADD: The 6 hour cooking time is based on my very old crockpot, but I have noticed my newer crockpot cooks hotter, so 4 hours on low may be plenty.

• Total Time: 6 hrs 10 mins
• Prep Time: 10 mins
• Cook Time: 6 hrs

Ingredients:

Servings: 6

• 6 boneless skinless chicken breast halves
• 1 small onion , chopped
• 1 cup fresh cranberries (may be frozen-don't thaw)
• 1 teaspoon salt
• ¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon
• ¼ teaspoon ground ginger
• 3 tablespoons brown sugar
• 1 cup orange juice
• 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 2 tablespoons cold water

Directions:

1. Place all ingredients, except flour and water, in the crock pot.
2. Cover and cook on LOW 4-6 hours (depending on how hot your pot runs), until chicken is tender.
3. Mix flour with cold water and add to pot in the last 15 to 20 minutes and cook until thickened.
4. Taste and adjust seasonings.

Reviews

[CyndiCB]

I love cranberries, so I was very excited to find this recipe. The chicken was extremely dry. We ended up having to throw it out. I don't know what went wrong with the recipe, because we followed it to a "T". Sometimes these things just don't work out. I think the idea of the recipe sounds really good, but it just didn't work for us.

[WI Cheesehead]

I used a can of cranberry sauce with whole cranberries and 1/2 C OJ, no sugar. I also used arrowroot instead of flour and thickened it on the stove to use as a dip or pour over. I was worried the kids wouldn't like it. Not! Even the picky 7 yo liked it! And my husband, who doesn't like fruit in his main dish, really liked it (minus the whole cranberries, of course!) I used 3 LARGE chkn breasts too and forgot the onions (which I'm sure my kids were glad of.)

[Melanie D]

Cranberries were out-of-season, so we reconstituted some dried cranberries for a few days to try to leach out as much sugar as possible. It was still good... probably not as good as it would have been with fresh cranberries, but still very very good.