Roasted Chicken With Apples is an easy recipe bursting with seasonal flavors. Sweet apples and savory onions and garlic roast together with chicken seasoned with the warm spices of autumn.
Fall is here and so are juicy crisp apples! It's time for apple recipes. And it's time for a sweet and savory baked chicken with apples!
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Chicken With Apples
Roasted Chicken With Apples is an easy recipe of melt-in-your-mouth chicken seasoned with the warm spices of autumn, buttery apples, savory onions and tender sweet cloves of roasted garlic.
So let's heat up the oven and make oven roasted cinnamon spiced apples with chicken for dinner tonight.
If you have an abundance of apples from apple picking or a visit to your farmers market or just a trip to the grocery store, then this is the recipe for you.
This is a sweet and savory recipe combination with the sweetness of the apples and cinnamon and the savory notes of the onion and chicken.
A delicious combination of seasonal flavors for sure.
And really now, doesn't roast chicken evoke thoughts of true comfort food?
Serve this chicken dish with sweet potatoes, crusty bread and a salad and have yourself an amazing comfort food dinner.
I especially love serving this easy chicken recipe at a dinner party when entertaining.
As the chicken roasts the aroma will fill your home with deliciousness.
Baked chicken and apples is always a perfect comfort food recipe especially when it's apple picking season and there's a chill in the air and perfect for Sunday Supper.
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How to make apple chicken
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- Preheat oven to 350F.
- In a mixing bowl combine apples, onion, garlic cloves, butter, 1/4 tsp. cinnamon, 1/4 tsp. marjoram, 1/4 tsp. kosher salt and cracked black pepper; reserve.
- Season chicken with remaining 1/2 tsp. cinnamon, 1/2 tsp. marjoram, 1/2 tsp. kosher salt and garlic powder.
- Place the chicken in a roasting pan and cook for 45 mnutes.
- Add the apple mixture to the roasting pan, arranging it around the chicken, and cook for an additional 45 minutes or until the chicken juices run clear
- Let the chicken rest about 10 minutes before slicing and serving
Swirls of Flavor Recipe Tips
- Use your favorite baking apples to make this recipe
- Add chopped fresh ginger
- Add fresh rosemary sprigs or fresh thyme sprigs to the roasting pan
- Be sure to cook chicken until the internal temperature of the chicken has reached 165F and check the temperature with a meat thermometer
Substitutions
- Use red onion or sweet onion in place of the yellow onion
- Make this recipe with a cut-up chicken instead of a whole roasting chicken and save on cooking time. Just be sure to use an instant read thermometer to check that the chicken pieces are fully cooked to 165F
- Substitute dried Italian seasoning for the dried marjoram
- Substitute bone-in skin-on chicken thighs for the whole chicken and using an instant-read thermometer chicken the temperature in the thickest part of the thigh
Variations
- Potatoes - Add bite-size pieces of potatoes for roasted chicken with apples and potatoes
- Pears - add sliced pears too!
Equipment
What kind of apples are best for baking?
Apples that are best for baking include:
- Jonagold apples
- Braeburn apples
- Honeycrisp apples
- Winesap apples
- Granny Smith apples
- Cortland apples
Ingredients
Ingredients for chicken with apples:
- Gala and/or Granny Smith apples
- onion
- garlic
- butter
- ground cinnamon
- dried marjoram
- kosher salt
- cracked black pepper
- whole roasting chicken
- garlic powder
Related Recipes
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Apple Cider Sangria is an easy recipe that adds a fall spin to your sangria! Apple cider, applejack brandy and a sweet white wine combine with a hint of vanilla to create your new favorite autumn cocktail!
Our Apple Cider Moscow Mule is a twist on the classic Moscow Mule cocktail replacing the lime juice with seasonal apple cider and garnishing with an orange slice and a cinnamon stick stirrer!
Roasted Cinnamon Apples ‘n Chicken
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Ingredients
- 3 Gala and/or Granny Smith apples , cored, each cut into 8 wedges
- 1 large onion , sliced 1/2″ thick, 1 1/2 cups
- 1 head garlic , peeled
- 2 Tbs. butter , melted
- 3/4 tsp. ground cinnamon , divided
- 3/4 tsp. dried marjoram , divided
- 3/4 tsp. kosher salt , divided
- 1/4 tsp. cracked black pepper
- 1 (7 lbs.) whole roaster chicken
- 1/4 tsp. garlic powder
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Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- In bowl combine apples, onion, garlic cloves, butter, 1/4 tsp. cinnamon, 1/4 tsp. marjoram, 1/4 tsp. kosher salt and cracked black pepper; reserve.
- Season chicken with remaining 1/2 tsp. cinnamon, 1/2 tsp. marjoram, 1/2 tsp. kosher salt and garlic powder.
- Roast the chicken for 45 minutes and then add the reserved apple mixture in roasting pan arranging it around chicken.
- Roast the chicken and apples an additional 45 minutes or until a meat thermometer reads 165F and the chicken juices run clear,
- Let the chicken rest for 10 minutes before serving. This allows for the juices to settle and the internal temperature to rise.
Hi just wondering, if this is diabetic friendly? It looks delish and am wanting to try it
Hi Alisha, This recipe has not been developed as a diabetic friendly recipe so I cannot guarantee that it is. Thank you for stopping by Swirls of Flavor, Gwynn