Cast Iron Roasted Chicken with Honey Pears & Thyme Recipe
There are a couple of different reasons why I love this recipe. For one, I roasted this in my most favorite cast iron skillets. I love using them. They easily go from being able to cook on the stovetop and then right into the oven. Hence the title cast-iron roasted chicken. I make a pretty mean skillet cornbread in the same cast-iron skillet that goes from the stovetop to oven in a
Now for two, the combination of honey, pears, and thyme is utterly amazing. Then top it with salty fried bacon and sautéed onions, and you have an unbeatable combination of flavors that goes great with chicken or even pork chops or tenderloin.
Cost to make this recipe.
Adding two inexpensive sided items and this main chicken dish that costs $2.40 per serving makes the perfect and cost-effective meal to feed the family. The entire main dish costs roughly $9.63 where the bulk of the cost is in the meat; chicken breasts and bacon. If you can get both of those items on sale, then you will out even further.
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Roasted Chicken with Honey Pears & Thyme
Cooking Methods
- Oven Skillet or Cast Iron Skillet
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp. olive or vegetable oil, …[$0.04]
- 7 strips bacon, chopped…[$3.22]
- ½ large onion, chopped…[$0.50]
- 4 chicken breasts, …[$4.00]
- 1 large pear, chopped…[$0.65]
- 3 tbsp. honey, …[$0.72]
- ¼ cup fresh thyme, minced…[$0.50]
Instructions
- In a cast iron or oven skillet, heat oil with chopped bacon and onion. Sauté for 10 minutes.
- Remove bacon mixture and set aside in a separate bowl.
- Clean and cut chicken breasts in half. Brown each chicken piece in hot cast iron skillet for 4-5 minutes on each side.
- Toss chopped pears in a bowl with honey and chopped thyme. Pour pears on top of chicken along with bacon and onion mixture.
- Roast the entire skillet chicken in oven on 350 °F for 30 minutes.