This was a recipe that belonged to my mother that I altered in classic Byrdhouse style. If you use a little less red pepper, even youngsters enjoy this recipe. This is always served with wide, flat noodles.
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Cook Time: | 30 mins |
| Total Time: | 50 mins |
| Servings: | 4 |
| Yield: | 4 servings |
Ingredients
- 1 (15 ounce) can peaches, drained and chopped
- 4 cloves garlic, pressed
- 1 ½ cups orange juice
- 2 tablespoons distilled white vinegar
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1 ½ teaspoons nutmeg
- ½ teaspoon red pepper flakes
- 2 teaspoons dried basil
- salt and pepper to taste
- 4 (6 ounce) skinless, boneless chicken breast halves – cut into bite-size pieces
- 2 tablespoons flour
- 3 tablespoons butter
Instructions
- Bring peaches, garlic, orange juice, vinegar, sugar, nutmeg, red pepper flakes, and basil to a boil in a saucepan over high heat. Reduce heat to medium-low, and simmer for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Meanwhile, season the chicken to taste with salt and pepper, then dust with flour and shake off the excess. Melt the butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the chicken, and cook until lightly brown on both sides, but still pink in the center.
- Season peach sauce with salt and pepper, and pour over browned chicken. Return the chicken to a simmer, then reduce heat to medium-low, cover, and simmer 15 minutes more until the chicken is no longer pink in the center.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 390 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 33 g |
| Cholesterol | 111 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 2 g |
| Protein | 35 g |
| Saturated Fat | 7 g |
| Sodium | 141 mg |
| Sugars | 26 g |
| Fat | 13 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
I made it! Yuck, husband and I both through it all out after eating 1/3 of our serving, and all leftovers.
Excellent, used fresh peaches
It was really good. While eating this, I think I would add broccoli flowerets and serve it on a bed of rice.
My sister used to make this when I was a kid. I always loved and could never make it cuz she couldn’t remember what the recipe was.. OMG I Love Allrecipes so easy to put in ingredients you want or have and poof you have a meal… Amazing Thank You for everyone’s Recipes and time and efforts…
So good! A fun mix of sweet and spicy; fruity and savory.
I made this with about six fresh peaches. It came out so well. The only thing I wasn’t happy about was the fact there were no leftovers!!! Next time I’ll triple the recipe — that way no matter how much people like it I should have some for the next day!!!
Yum! I used up all my almost over ripe peaches and left out the brown sugar.
We tried this recipe and really wanted to like it, but alas it was not to be. The aroma was strange; couldn’t quite figure out what spice/herb should have been added or left out, but adjustments needed to be made. We’ll finish the batch w made, but probably won’t make it again.
I made this exactly as written, although I did increase the brown sugar from 2 tablespoons to 4 tablespoons. I will make this again, but I will substitute 4 peeled (dip in boiling water) peaches, and vastly reduced spices: 1/2 teapoon basil, 1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes, 1 teaspoon nutmeg in addition to increasing brown sugar. If desired, mix 1/2 tablespoon cornstarch with 2 tablespoons water, add to the final product, and cook another minute or two until sauce is slightly thickened and glossy.
Oh, yeah! Been thinking about this recipe since I added it to my recipe box and it did not disappoint. Doubled the chile flakes, used a frozen basil cube, and added a chopped onion. So good! In the summer I’m going to try a deconstructed version–sauce without peaches, grilled chicken breast, and grllled fresh peaches over egg noodles.
My family really enjoyed this. My only complaint about it is that the sauce was super watery for me. I’ll definitely add some corn starch next time. But all the flavors worked really well together, and even tasted great poured over the steamed broccoli I made to go with it.
This turned out to be a great surprise! It has the right amount of sweetness vs. heat. I will make this again.
Enjoyed the flavors together. Used fresh basil, added more red pepper flakes (we like it hot!) and served over brown rice. Will definitely make it again!
I tried this recipe and found the basil peach combo to be difficult to handle.
Followed the recipe but used the peach juice with the OJ. The end result was a flavour that reminded me of a sweet chilli sauce. It was an easy recipe to prepare.
Its been a very long time since I have been cooking. This recipe came to me via ALLRECIPES Email. It enticed me back into the kitchen to cook for my husband as we are recent empty nesters. We both LOVED IT! He said, “perfect amount of heat and sweet” & “chicken was so moist and tender”. I followed the recipe to a T. (measured EVERYTHING!!) However, I only used one gargantuan chicken breast, sliced into 4 long diagonal strips. I served it, as suggested, with noodles I found in my cupboard (wide, egg noodles). Husband would have rather had linguine. THAT has NOTHING to do with this recipe though. 🙂 Definitely something I will make again. THAT says ALOT! So excited that I finally NAILED a recipe! thanks
My husband and I found this recipe very good.I didn’t have nutmeg so used cinnamon after checking a site for substitutions for it.I held back on the red pepper but wish I’d used a bit more it needs that kick.Add the peaches toward the end .I used frozen and felt they didn’t need to be so mushy and that’s what I ended up with.I’m on a lower salt diet so all the flavors in this made up for no salt added.All and all healthy I used a George foreman grill for the chicken and no butter.Served with Jasmine rice green beans with almonds.
I tried this recipe last night and it was a big hit! I should have made rice to go with it but I made angel hair pasta and broccoli instead. It was really delicious and this is going to become one of my regular meals. You can change it up to suit your taste but this was flavorful and just plain Yummy!
We did not like this recipe at all. It has a weird combination of spices and a strange taste to it. Will not make again. I was so disappointed because I thought it might be a great recipe. Recipe made as originally written–no changes were made.
Made this dutch oven style. Nice flavor, recipe doesn’t stated over noodles, but that is how it was served. Only changes I would make is onions and peaches added at the last 15 minutes, peaches were pretty mush after simmering so long.
I made this recipe just tonight…I enjoyed it very much, but I did change it up a bit. First I added the juice from peaches to make more sauce, I also added 2 KNORR CHICKEN bouillon cubes to make it more flavorful, I chopped 2 green onion stalks for garnish