Not a Recipe

An experiment for supper.

The recipe for a variant of apricot chicken in the last Carnival of the Recipes got the gears turning.  I bought some apricot preserves, if only because I love it in PBJ sandwiches.  Thought I’d try it, but I was weirded out a bit by the inclusion of Russian, French or Catilina dressing in the recipe, and we didn’t have any.  Not that wasn’t past its throw away date.  I also had to make it for only two chicken breasts; a smaller recipe.

I poked around and saw some other apricot and chicken ideas online, and ended up, unmeasured this time, using three big spoonfuls of apricot preserves, some vinegar, a dash of Worcestershire sauce, a couple dashes of dry mustard, just about half a packet of Shaw’s store brand onion soup mix, and what probably amounted to around three tablespoons of brown sugar.

I stirred it all up vigorously, into a lumpy sauce, and spooned it onto the chicken breasts in a baking pan.

It came out a little too liquid, so I’d probably go lighter on the vinegar, if nothing else next time.  About halfway through close to 40 minutes of baking at 400, I took it out and spooned the now thickened sauce from around the chicken onto it to add to what was actually sticking.

The brand of onion soup mix is particularly strong, and I should have remembered that and gone lighter.

The sauce itself tasted excellent and promised a good result.  And it was, but not quite where it needs to be for an excellent dish.  The onion soup was too strong a taste.  I could see doing something like it, almost the same, but with a pinch to a dash or two each of onion powder and garlic powder, or just the onion powder.

We devoured and enjoyed it.  It’s worthy of another test or two and then maybe I can make it a recipe with more detailed measurements.  There are pictures, which I may yet take off the camera to post.  Got a nice breast shot in the pan, as well as one of the rice, chicken, carrots and green beans with almonds arranged on my plate.

Update:

Here are pictures!  First, the apricot chicken experiment in the pan:

Yeah, the pan is still soaking.  Oh well.

Here’s the chicken in context on the plate:

Pretty, huh?

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