Raspberry Walnut Soaked Chicken Recipes

RASPBERRY VINAIGRETTE CHICKEN BREAST

Steps:

• Preheat oven at 350 degrees.
• Thaw and wash your chicken breast and place into a glass dish.
• Pour the Raspberry Vinaigrette dressing over the chicken breast until they are just about covered.
• Place in oven at 350 degrees for one hour.
• When done spoon sauce from baking dish over your chicken, rice or potatoes.

GRILLED RASPBERRY CHICKEN

Steps:

• Combine 1 cup vinaigrette and 1 tablespoon rosemary in a large resealable plastic bag. Add chicken thighs and drumsticks. Seal bag and turn to coat. Refrigerate for 1 hour.
• Combine remaining rosemary, raspberry jam, 4 1/2 teaspoons vinaigrette, lime juice, soy sauce, and garlic powder in a small bowl.
• Prepare an outdoor grill for indirect medium heat and lightly oil the grate.
• Drain and discard the marinade. Place chicken pieces skin-side down on the grill rack. Grill, covered, over indirect heat for 20 minutes. Flip. Grill, basting occasionally with raspberry jam mixture, until a meat thermometer inserted into the center reads 180 degrees F (80 degrees C), 10 to 20 minutes more.

SAUCY RASPBERRY CHICKEN

Steps:

• Place chicken in a 3-qt. slow cooker. In a small bowl, combine the spreadable fruit, soy sauce, mustard and pepper; pour over chicken. Cover and cook on low for 5-6 hours or until meat is tender., Remove chicken to a serving platter; keep warm. Skim fat from cooking juices; transfer to a small saucepan. Bring to a boil. Combine cornstarch and water until smooth; gradually stir into the pan. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. Serve with chicken.

GRILLED RASPBERRY CHICKEN

Steps:

• In a large resealable plastic bag, combine 1 cup vinaigrette and half of the rosemary. Add chicken. Seal bag and turn to coat; refrigerate for 1 hour. , In a small bowl, combine the jam, lime juice, soy sauce, garlic powder, and remaining vinaigrette and rosemary; set aside., Drain and discard marinade. Place chicken skin side down on grill rack. Grill, covered, over indirect medium heat for 20 minutes. Turn; grill 10-20 minutes longer or until juices a thermometer reads 180°, basting occasionally with raspberry sauce.

SKILLET CHICKEN WITH RASPBERRY SAUCE

Steps:

• Sprinkle chicken with salt and pepper. In a large nonstick skillet coated with cooking spray, cook chicken over medium heat for 5-7 minutes on each side or until a thermometer reads 170°., Meanwhile, in a small saucepan, combine the remaining ingredients. Bring to a boil; cook until liquid is reduced to 1/2 cup. Serve with chicken.

BAKED CHICKEN WITH SPECIAL RASPBERRY SAUCE

Steps:

• Place chicken in shallow pan.
• Drizzle with melted butter.
• Bake at 350 for 45 minutes.
• Drain any excess fats from pan.
• Combine remaining ingredients and spoon over chicken, bake another 15- 20 minutes.

RASBERRY WALNUT SMOKED CHICKEN

Steps:

• 1. Start smoker at 275' to 300' range, and then refrigerate the 2 bottles of Raspberry walnut salad dressing. Chilling it down reduces any bacteria growth on chicken. Also chilling the chicken reduces bacteria growth. Optimal temperature is below 40'F. Once chilled use a 1 gallon freezer bag and put chicken in it and 1 whole bottle of salad dressing. We marinate it for 3 or 4 hours and discard the marinate afterwards.
• 2. Pat chicken simi-dry after marinating, do not rinse off. Chicken will be very pink from raspberry, and wetness will be binder for chicken rub. Next sprinkle rub underneath chicken skin and on top of chicken. Tuck chicken skin underneath. At this point, if smoker is up to temp, place chicken on smoker skin side up. Smoking for 1 hour, spraying with apple juice, then turning chicken over after 1st hour. Continuing to spray every 30 minutes. After 2 hours cooking/spraying chicken, we glaze with raspberry walnut bbq sauce (see recipe next). After cooking 2 hours, chicken should be tender and moist.
• 3. Next, make raspberry walnut bbq sauce. Empty 1 bottle of salad dressing into a bowl, squeeze ketchup into empty salad dressing bottle as a measure of equal parts and squeeze that ketchup into same bowl. Then measure honey into salad dressing bottle, and squeeze honey into bowl. You will have approximately equal measures of each in bowl. Stir mixture well. Glaze the chicken and let sit on smoker for about 5 minutes to thicken. Chicken is done in 2 hours, but glaze can set in just a few minutes on a hot smoker.