Sweet, sweet BBQ

This weekend I tried two new recipes, one of which I found on Pinterest (more on that later), the other that I found on the Crockin’ Girls website.

Since I worked from home on Friday to be available for the delivery of our new dining room table, I figured it would be a good day to finally make the recipe I’d been eying for a week or two (and kept putting off making).  Since the prep work was a little more involved than I like on a work day, it was the perfect choice.

The recipe of the day was Bacon-Wrapped Apple BBQ Chicken (source)

I’ve included the recipe below, but note, I modified a few things due to laziness or comments made from other people on the Crockin’ Girls site that made it before.  I’ll note where I modified things – just in case you’re curious. 🙂

Here we go:

3-4 chicken breasts [I used 3, and we still had plenty left over!]
1/2 cup BBQ sauce [I used a full cup of Original BBQ sauce]
1-2 apples, peeled and grated [I used two Red Delicious apples, that I put in the food processor – who has time to grate and peel??]
1 lemon, juiced [I used lemon juice, and really no clue how much I put in.  Just added it as I felt like it]
6-8 slices bacon [I used 6]

2 cups apple juice [This was not in the original recipe.  Based on reader comments that the chicken was dry, there were people who added apple juice to the slow cooker.  I think this was definitely a good idea – the chicken was far from dry!]

Directions:

1. In small bowl, combine BBQ sauce with grated apple, lemon juice, and 1 cup of apple juice.

2. Wrap 2 pieces of bacon around each chicken breast. [I moved this to #2, as they had it as #3, which doesn’t make logical sense.  I also didn’t wrap them, just threw uncooked bacon on top.  Suggestions made on the site were to cook the bacon first.  Ha! Again, too much work. It turned out fine without cooking it slightly before including it into the mix.]

3. Place chicken breasts in base of slow cooker, pour BBQ/apple mixture over the chicken.  Add additional apple juice if necessary to cover the chicken. [I free poured the apple juice, I know it was more than 1 cup, but 2 cups is a guestimate!]

4. Set to low and cook for 8 hours. [I did 6 hours on high, because I was home, and because I forgot to put things in the slow cooker until around 11:30 am.  Oops.]

When we were ready for dinner, I went in and shredded the chicken before making the sides (baked beans).  It gave the chicken a little time to sit in the BBQ sauce before we took it out. [I forgot to get a new box of liners for the slow cooker at the store. Josh was okay with this slip-up just this one time, haha!]

Once the beans were done, we scooped out the BBQ and put it on buns for a delicious, sweet dinner!

Our ratings on the recipe:

Josh gave it a 4.5 out of 5 stars.  I will probably go with a 4 out of 5.  It was good, but I wasn’t quite sure what to expect.  Josh went back for seconds on Friday night, and then we had left overs on Sunday night.  When we want to eat leftovers, it usually means we enjoyed it the first time.

Have you ever tried this recipe?  Or do you have a great slow cooker BBQ recipe to recommend?  I’d love to try it!

 

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