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When it comes to cooking, one thing I adore are easy recipes that look fancy. In my opinion the absolutely best tasting food is also normally the most simplistic. The ingredients aren’t elaborate and the process is relatively effortless, but the result on the other side is not only delicious, it looks incredible and pulls you in to the dinner table.
These kinds of recipes can make it on to holiday menus, but can also turn weeknight meals into something special. I hope you’ll find this recipe does just what I’m describing here for your next family meal!
Grape Roasted Chicken with Mushroom Cream Sauce
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Author: Angie Alt
Serves: 4-6
Ingredients
- 1 3-4 lb chicken, spatchcocked (there are excellent instructions on how to spatchcock in this recipe)
- 6 slices bacon, chopped
- 1 lemon, quartered
- 1 tsp dried thyme
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp coarse sea salt
- 2 cups seedless red grapes
- 1 medium yellow onion, thinly sliced
- 1 shallot, minced
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 8 oz. mushrooms, sliced (I used Baby Bella mushrooms)
- 1 tbsp canned pumpkin
- ½ cup white wine (you can also use broth or white wine vinegar)
- ¼ cup full-fat coconut milk
- 2-3 sprigs fresh thyme
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 425 degrees F.
- Combine the thyme, garlic powder, and sea salt in a small bowl and set aside.
- Place the thoroughly dried chicken, skin side up, on a parchment lined baking sheet and set aside.
- In a skillet cook bacon until browned and crisp. Remove, drain on paper towels, and reserve the rendered bacon fat.
- Use a pastry brush to coat the chicken skin with the bacon fat. Sprinkle with the seasoning mixture. Arrange the lemons around the chicken.
- Roast the chicken, uncovered, for 25 mins. Tuck bunches of grapes around the chicken and return to oven for 25 more mins. or until the breast meat reaches an internal temperature of 165 degrees F. Let rest for 10 minutes before serving.
- Meanwhile, for sauce, in a skillet over medium heat cook and stir onion, shallot, and garlic in the remaining bacon fat for 4 mins. Add mushrooms, cook and stir for 5 more mins. Add pumpkin, wine, coconut milk, and fresh thyme. Cook and stir until sauce is thickened and bubbly. Stir in crisped bacon.
- Serve chicken with lemons, grapes, and generous ladles of sauce.
10 comments
I’ve never tried chicken with fruit before but keen to give this a go! Looks like the perfect dinner for a Sunday evening 🙂
Meat w/ fruit is always kind of weird to us in some parts of the world, but it’s actually not so uncommon in other cuisine styles. I found this combo to be really yummy, hope you love it!
My oven (and entire kitchen) was filled with smoke from roasting this uncovered at such a high temp. Any suggestions? Other than that, it was delicious!
I didn’t have issues with this but since I have very sensitive smoke detectors, I tend to take extra precautions. I didn’t make this using a cookie sheet and parchment paper, and instead cooked it in a cast iron pot without the lid on. Just greased the bottom with bacon grease as well before putting in the chicken. Also baked it at 400 for 30 minutes, then at 415 for 40 minutes after putting in the grapes. Worked really well! 0 smoke, 0 problems. Maybe that would work for you as well.
SO GOOD.
Glad you loved it Edith!
Making it again this Christmas. This is a favourite with my non-paleo, “standard diet” husband as well. Strongly encourage those who give this recipe a shot to double or even triple the sauce if you enjoy a lot of gravy/sauce 🙂 I’m now paleo and no longer AIP, and this is still my go-to for nicer chicken-based dinners.
Seriously, so so good. Food heaven. I promise this will be my last time commenting on this recipe, unless someone has questions 😛
This chx was soooo good! Will make again.
Hooray! Glad you loved it Colleen!
Can I use butternut squash purée instead of pumpkin purée? Pumpkin doesn’t agree with me.