Apple Chicken Stew

A few months ago, my buddy Ang told me about this great recipe she found on Allrecipes.com for Apple Chicken Stew. I'm always a sucker for combining fruit and meat, but Mark is always a little more unsure about it. This one sounded a little more minimum on the fruity, sweet taste, so I decided to try it out after the Toro Employee Sale this morning.

So here's the recipe, with hats off to Carol Mathias from Lincoln, NE for posting the recipe on AllRecipes.com.

The Ingredients

I'm going to start out by separating the ingredients into 5 categories (and 6 steps): The veggies, the meat, the fruit, the spices and the sauce

The Veggies

You combine all the following in the crockpot: cubed potatoes, sliced carrots, sliced celery and sliced red onion.

The Spices

Combine the salt, pepper, thyme and caraway seed. Sprinkle half over the veggies.

The Meat

Cook the chicken in the olive oil...

...then put the cooked chicken over the veggies in the crockpot.

The Fruit

Put the peeled, diced apple over the meat in the crockpot.

The Sauce

Combine the apple cider and cider vinegar, then pour over everything in the crockpot.

Yeah, I failed to take a "finished product" pic, or a pic for this step. Ooops!

The Spices (again)

Sprinkle the rest of the spices over everything in the crockpot. Add the bay leaf.

Turn the crockpot to cook on high for 4 hours.

Eat it :)