Slow Cooker Apricot Chicken
This delicious Apricot Chicken recipe is slow cooked and glazed to perfection. This recipe would be delicious with orange preserves in place of apricot as well!
Slow Cooker Apricot Chicken
Also try this Slow Cooker Cabbage Roll Soup, and the ever-popular Slow Cooker Ham! But if it’s crockpot chicken recipe you’re after, may I suggest this Crockpot Whole Chicken recipe.
Here’s another ode of slow cooker love – Slow Cooker Apricot Chicken! It’s the perfect apricot chicken recipe!
See, we make chicken in this household, a lot. So, to beat the usual and ordinary, I have to find alternate ways to make chicken. Like this wonderful Slow Cooker Chicken Marsala.
Or else the same old is just boring, and I run the risk of the kids turning up their noses. Not out of dislike, but of repetition. And, we all don’t handle that very well at all.
Slow Cooker Apricot Chicken is easy, fast, and very delicious. It’s a change-up from the usual, and packs a punch when it comes to flavour. Plus, with the season right now, it’s a sweet taste that screams summer.
At the same time, there are no lazy days of summer around here. I still need dinners that fit the schedule in June, when we seem to be the busiest. That’s where the beauty of this recipe comes in.
Slow cooked meals are very welcome in my home, since we’re usually running like mad right after school, until bedtime.
That being said, I’ll also make this when school is out, so our dinner can cook while we’re taking in other things. It’ll be nice to spend the day at the splash park and come home to a dinner that is underway.
I like to side this recipe with seasonal veggies and perhaps some rice. Save room for dessert though! It is summer after all. 😉
Slow Cooker Apricot Chicken
Such a delicious recipe for Apricot Chicken, slow cooked and glazed to perfection. This recipe would be delicious with orange preserves in place of apricot as well!
Ingredients
- 1 lb boneless skinless chicken breast, each breast sliced into 3 long pieces
- ½ cup apricot preserve
- ½ cup mayonnaise
- 3 tbsp ketchup
- 2 tsp bottled horseradish, fresh or cream style, not with beet juice}
- ½ tsp hot sauce
- ½ tsp worcestershire sauce
- ⅛ tsp paprika
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ pkg dry onion soup mix, or make your own}
Instructions
- In a small bowl combine everything except chicken breast. Use a whisk to mix well.
- Place chicken pieces into the bottom of a slow cooker. Pour apricot mixture over the top, making sure the chicken is covered.
- Cover and cook on high for 1 hour, then reduce heat to low and cook 3 additional hours.
- Spoon sauce over chicken pieces and serve immediately.
Notes
Do not overcook or the chicken will become tough. This recipe would be delicious with orange preserves in place of apricot as well!
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 4 Serving Size: 4 ServingsAmount Per Serving: Calories: 340Saturated Fat: 3gCholesterol: 84mgSodium: 759mgCarbohydrates: 5gSugar: 4gProtein: 24g
Mmm, this looks amazing. Bookmarked so we can make it this weekend. It looks so savory.
I LOVE using apricot on meats. This looks wonderful and it came out of a slow cooker, so double win!
I’ve been looking for some new slow cooker recipes to try this summer – this one is definitely going on my list. This looks amazing!
I think I’d like this. Looks really good!!
What a good looking new recipe to try out. I’m always looking for new things my kids will eat that I like too.
This looks very good and tasty, going to have to remember to make this up!!
I would never have thought to put Apricot & Chicken together,but this sure looks delicious
Oh yummy! Sounds like something everyone in the family would love.
Never thought of using apricot on chicken, looks and sounds delicious. thanks
Now that looks extra delicious!
this is going into my recipe box!
This looks so good! I have made apricot chicken before the old fashioned way and it didn’t look as good as this.
This looks like a great combination of flavours!
Yummy sounds so delish , i will def be making this , love new recipes with Chicken . thanks for sharing !
Looks good! Never stop to think you could overcook chicken in the slow cooker, maybe that is why when I have tried it, it has turned out dry. Will have to watch my cooking time from now on.
I love to use my slow cooker at least once a week! I will try this recipe.
I love the fact that this is made in a slow cooker, much nicer than standing over a hot stove in the summer :-). Think I might cut back on the horseradish, hot sauce and worcestershire sauce, I like my food mild 🙂
I’ve been looking for some new slow cooker recipes and this sounds delicious
Sounds really yummy!! Will have to try 🙂
This looks fabulous and chicken is by far my favorite! I love that this is made in the slow cooker too.
Thank you for the great recipe!
This Slow-Cooker Apricot Chicken looks delicious. I am going to save this recipe and make it. I am always on the lookout for good chicken recipes. Thank you for this recipe.
I have some dried apricots on hand……would I dice them to use them?
Or must I hydrate them first, to use them?
I’ve never tried, but when you do – let me know the results! 🙂