Chicken Normandy for the Final Day of #AppleWeek

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Chicken pieces cooked to a golden brown and then nestled in apples and onions and braised in an apple cider sauce.  Can you say YUM!!

Today is the final day of Apple Week, I hope you have enjoyed it as much as I..........

 Camilla of Culinary Adventures with Camilla arranged this incredible event for you and wrangled a group of bloggers to celebrate all things apple. Apples, apples, and more apples!

Cam also arranged for sponsors to not only provide us with product to incorporate in our recipes but also to provide some amazing gifts for our readers to win.  You can learn all about this gifts and enter to win in my Welcome Post.

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Here are the final recipes being shared today..........

• Apple Cider Tea Latte by Who Needs A Cape?
• Cheddar Apple Biscuits by Simple and Savory
• Chicken Normandy by A Day in the Life on the Farm
• Hard Cider Iced Tea by The Baking Fairy
• Spiced Caramel Apple Cake with Vanilla-Flecked Buttercream by Culinary Adventures with Camilla

This recipe starts off with you sauteing apples in butter until they are golden.  They smell so good that you will have to force yourself not to eat them.  I used two different variety of apple for this step.

Dredge chicken leg quarters in flour and brown in some more butter.  When they are golden brown and crisp remove to a platter and set aside.

Add onion to the pan, this will start to deglaze the pan, cook and stir, scraping up the browned bits until the onion start to brown slightly.  Add some apple brandy to finish deglazing the pan and then add the apple cider and boil until reduced. Nestle the chicken pieces in with the onions and place in the oven to braise for about half an hour.

Carefully remove skillet to the stove top, taking care to protect yourself from the handle.  I wrap a towel around it to remind me it is red hot!!  Remove the chicken, I nestled mine on top of cooked egg noodles.

Return the apples to the pan and boil down the sauce over med high heat until reduced by half and syrupy in texture.  Add some cream, season with salt and pepper and ladle over the chicken and noodles.  DELISH!!

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French

Yield: 4 servings

Author: Wendy Klik

Chicken Normandy

Chicken pieces cooked to a golden brown and then nestled in apples and onions and braised in an apple cider sauce.

prep time: 10 Mcook time: 1 H & 30 Mtotal time: 1 H & 40 M

ingredients:

• 4 T. butter, divided
• 2 apples, cored and cut into wedges
• 4 chicken leg quarters
• 1/2 c. flour
• salt and pepper, to taste
• 1 lg. sweet onion, cut into wedges
• 1/2 c. apple brandy
• 2 c. cloudy apple cider
• 1 t. dried thyme leaves
• 1/2 c. cream
• 8 oz. egg noodles, cooked per package directions

instructions:

How to cook Chicken Normandy

1. Melt 2 Tablespoons of the butter in a large, oven safe skillet over med high heat.  Add the apple wedges and cook, stirring occasionally, until lightly browned.  Remove to a plate and set aside.
2. Melt the remaining 2 Tablespoons of butter in the same skillet.  Place the flour, salt and pepper into a plastic bag and shake to combine.  Add the chicken leg quarters and shake to coat.  Place in the skillet and cook for about 3 or 4 minutes on each side until crisp and browned.  Remove to a plate and set aside.
3. Put the onions into the skillet and cook, stirring occasionally,  until they begin to soften and turn brown.  Add the apple brandy and cook, scraping up any browned bits stuck to the bottom of the pan, until reduced by half.  Add the apple cider and cook until reduced and syrupy.  
4. Return the chicken to the skillet and place into a preheated 375* oven for 30-40 minutes.  Remove from the oven back to the stove top being very careful to remember that the handle of the skillet is going to be red hot.
5. Remove the chicken and place in a large serving bowl over the cooked egg noodles.  Let rest while you make the sauce.
6. Bring the braising liquid to a boil, add the apples and let cook until reduced by half.  Off heat, stir in the cream and thyme.  Taste and season with more salt and pepper, if needed.  Ladle the sauce, apples and onions over the chicken and noodles and serve.

NOTES:

Recipe adapted from one found at Simply Recipes.

Calories
1016.59

Fat (grams)
46.66

Sat. Fat (grams)
20.68

Carbs (grams)
71.29

Fiber (grams)
5.31

Net carbs
65.99

Sugar (grams)
28.32

Protein (grams)
69.77

Sodium (milligrams)
440.02

Cholesterol (grams)
391.91

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