Apple Cider Chicken With Noodles

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 3 tablespoons butter, divided
• 1 granny smith apple, peeled and sliced
• 1 tablespoon packed brown sugar
• 4 (4 ounce) skinless, boneless chicken breast halves
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper, or to taste
• 1 onion, sliced into rings and rings separated
• 1/2 cup apple cider
• 1/4 cup apple cider vinegar
• 2 cups cooked wide noodles

Recipe

Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 30 mins Ready Time: 40 mins


• melt butter in a large skillet over medium heat; cook and stir apples until lightly browned, 5 to 10 minutes. sprinkle brown sugar over apples and cook until apples are tender, about 5 minutes more. transfer apples to a plate.
• arrange chicken on a sheet of waxed paper; season both sides with cinnamon, salt, and pepper. melt remaining butter in the same skillet and cook chicken until browned, 2 to 3 minutes per side. transfer chicken to a plate.
• cook and stir onion in the same skillet used for chicken until tender, 5 to 10 minutes. stir cider and vinegar into onion, reduce heat to medium-low, and simmer until sauce is slightly thickened, about 2 minutes.
• return chicken to onion mixture, spooning cider sauce over chicken and cook until chicken is no longer pink in the center and the liquid is reduced by half, 5 to 10 minutes more. spoon apples into chicken mixture and cook until apples are warmed, 2 to 3 minutes.
• arrange noodles on plate, top with chicken, and spoon sauce over chicken.