Although most of the dishes I see lack meat, I’ve always wanted to try spaghetti squash. Meat is something I like. Having said that, I used ground chicken to keep it wholesome. Even my 5-year-old, who despises vegetables, loved it when I prepared it for my family, but I did let him know it was simply spaghetti.
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Cook Time: | 3 hrs 5 mins |
| Total Time: | 3 hrs 25 mins |
| Servings: | 6 |
| Yield: | 6 servings |
Ingredients
- 1 (1.5 pound) package small yellow-fleshed potatoes
- 3 pounds skin-on, boneless chicken thighs
- 3 small apples, peeled and diced
- ½ medium sweet onion, diced
- 1 cup chicken broth
- ½ cup honey
- ⅓ cup applesauce
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon ground cumin
- ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper
Instructions
- Chop any large potatoes in half.
- Place potatoes in the bottom of a slow cooker. Add chicken thighs on top of potatoes, and spread apples and onion over top.
- Mix chicken broth, honey, applesauce, garlic, salt, cinnamon, cumin, and pepper together in a bowl; pour over chicken mixture.
- Cook until chicken is no longer pink at the bone and the juices run clear, 4 to 6 hours on Low, or about 3 hours on High. An instant-read thermometer inserted near the bone should read 165 degrees F (74 degrees C).
- Set an oven rack about 6 inches from the heat source and preheat the oven’s broiler. Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil.
- Remove chicken thighs from the slow cooker and place, skin-side up, on the prepared baking sheet.
- Broil in the preheated oven until skin is crisp, 3 to 5 minutes. Serve with potatoes, apples, onions, and sauce.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 570 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 54 g |
| Cholesterol | 129 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 4 g |
| Protein | 38 g |
| Saturated Fat | 6 g |
| Sodium | 699 mg |
| Sugars | 31 g |
| Fat | 23 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
I follow the recipe. I used chicken thighs and chicken breasts. I cooked it on high for 3 hours. I put the chicken under the broiler for 5 minutes. The chicken was dry, so adding the sauce helped that. I was not as tasty as I would have liked it to be. Apples , honey and cinnamon. I expected it to be sweeter. We all ate it. It was okay. I shredded the leftover chicken. I am going to make BBQ chicken. I would give it two stars.