Chicken with Apricot Jam & Soy Sauce – AKA – Sandy’s Chicken

  Posted on March 6, 2012  by Leslie Blythe  2 comments

This is one of my husband’s favorite meals.  He is always asking me to make it.  Sandy is one of my best friends (that is ditto for Jessica, Emma and Sharon).  She was the first person I met on my first day of college.  Actually, it was my mother that met her, I was too shy.  You know those friends that know a hell of a lot about you – actually, too much about you?  Well, Sandy is one of those.  A friend that you haven’t seen in years and yet you pick right up where you left off.  There are so many times that I would LOVE to hang out with her, though she is usually living in Japan, Bejing, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore- did I miss any?  Not exactly convenient for hanging out!  That’s Sandy and this is her chicken.

Sandy’s Chicken

Serves 4

4 chicken breasts
1/4 cup soy sauce
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
2/3 cup apricot jam
Butter for basting

Mix the soy sauce, spices and jam.  Put some small cubes of butter on the chicken.  Spread the jam mixture of chicken.  Bake at 350˚ for 45 minutes.

To thicken the sauce once the chicken is cooked, use 1 Tbs of corn starch dissolved in 1 Tbs of water and stir into the sauce once the chicken is removed.

Variations

Use ginger preserve instead of the apricot jam, add a splash of dry sherry and chopped spring onions instead of soy sauce and spices.