Classic Apricot Chicken
This classic apricot chicken is only 4 ingredients - apricot jam, onion soup mix, chicken, and French dressing. Sweet, sticky, and incredibly retro, you can't help but be won over by this simple apricot chicken recipe!
Servings: 4
Calories: 977kcal
Ingredients
Chicken
- 8 chicken thighs bone in and skin on
- 1 tbsp oil
- salt and pepper
Apricot Sauce
- 1 cup apricot preserves
- 1 cup French dressing or Russian Dressing
- one 1 ounce package dry onion soup mix
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 °F.
- Get out a large oven proof skillet or pan.
- Season the chicken with salt and pepper on both sides.
- Heat the oil in the skillet.
- Fry the chicken in the oil until all sides are browned.
- Mix together the sauce ingredients.
- Brush half of the sauce over top of the chicken in the pan, reserving some for later.
- Bake in the oven for 30 minutes.
- Pour the remaining mixture on top of the chicken thighs.
- Continue to cook the thighs until the internal temperature reaches 185 °F.
- Remove and serve with some sauce drizzled over top of the chicken.
Notes
- The nutritional calculates all of the sauce, which you don't eat so values shown are higher that actual
- Servings are 2 chicken thighs per person in this recipe
Nutrition
Calories: 977kcal | Carbohydrates: 48g | Protein: 38g | Fat: 69g | Saturated Fat: 14g | Cholesterol: 221mg | Sodium: 720mg | Potassium: 551mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 36g | Vitamin A: 588IU | Vitamin C: 7mg | Calcium: 45mg | Iron: 2mg