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    Chipotle Cranberry Chicken

    Last Modified: December 31, 2020

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    Jazz up your leftover chicken or turkey with chipotle and cranberry sauce. Mildly spicy, tangy, low maintenance dish. Slow cooker /Instant Pot

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    Chief Desirist Dr Hanna

    Chipotle Cranberry Chicken

    Jazz up your chicken or leftover turkey with chipotle and slightly sweet cranberry sauce. Mildly spicy, tangy and low maintenance dish. Using an Instant Pot or slow cooker keeps you out of the kitchen yet makes you a popular chef!
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    Prep Time 10 minutes mins
    Cook Time 5 hours hrs
    Total Time 5 hours hrs 10 minutes mins
    Servings: 4
    Course: Mains
    Cuisine: Tex-Mex/Southwest
    Calories: 686
    Ingredients Equipment Method Notes

    Ingredients
      

    • 3 lbs bone-in chicken thighs and/or drumsticks skinned
    • 1 tsp Vegeta
    • ½ tsp black pepper ground
    • ¾ cup whole cranberry sauce preferably homemade, or canned
    • 1 cup water divided
    • 4 oz sundried tomatoes dried
    • 8 oz fresh tomatoes diced
    • 1 TBSP Cento tomato paste
    • 2 TBSP cornstarch
    • 2 TBSP lime juice
    • 1 TBSP Truvia Brown Sugar Blend
    • 1 TBSP canned chipotle pepper in adobo sauce
    • 1 TBSP Dijon mustard
    • Optional: ¼ diced onion and 1 clove garlic
    • Cilantro for garnish

    Equipment

    • Instant pot
    • pepper grinder
    • Blender

    Method
     

    1. Place chicken in a 4 or or 4 Qt slow cooker. Sprinkle with Vegeta (or salt) and freshly ground pepper.
    2. In a blender combine all ingredients. Optional: add onion and garlic. Blend till smooth. Pour mixture over chicken.
    3. Cover pot. Cook the chicken: use Venting, Slow Cooker, Low Heat and 5 hours setting.
    4. When cooking finished, remove the chicken pieces into a serving bowl and set aside.
    5. Optional : concentrate the liquid of the chicken stew: por the liquid into a 12-inch-skillet, and boil it down to the desired consistency.
    6. Serve chicken and sauce over brown rice, cuscus, gnocchi or with coleslaw. Garnish with cilantro.

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    About Chief Desirist Dr Hanna

    Former PhD chemist turned to chocolatier. Now in New Hampshire USA starting a food business in my 3rd country, after NZ and AU. I’m very committed to sustainability, defined as buying locally, shunning preservatives & artificial ingredients, and using only natural fruits and herbs and highest cocoa content possible for chocolates

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