astray recipes: Orange pecan chicken

Categories: Poultry
Yield: 4 Servings

Measure	Ingredient
8 smalls	Chicken breasts
½ cup	Butter or margarine,melted
	Salt, good sprinkle
	Pepper, sprinkle
1 tablespoon	Grated orange rind
1½ cup	Prepared orange juice
14 ounces	Pineapple tidbits with juice
1 cup	Raisins
¾ cup	Chopped pecans or walnuts
½ teaspoon	Cinnamon
¼ teaspoon	Allspice
2 tablespoons	All-purpose flour
¼ cup	Water
2 teaspoons	Soy sauce
	Sliced oranges, for garnish

SAUCE

Dip meat into melted butter. Place on baking sheet with sides. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Bake uncovered in 400øF oven for 20 minutes. Reduce oven heat to 350øF.

(SAUCE): Measure next 7 ingredients into saucepan. Bring to a boil stirring often. Pour over chicken. Bake for 30 minutes more until tender.

Transfer meat to platter.

Pour sauce into saucepan. Mix flour, water and soy sauce until smooth. Add to saucepan. Stir over medium heat until it boils and thickens. Pour over meat. Garnish with sliced oranges.

Variation: Sprinkle heavily with curry powder after dipping in melted butter and sprinkling with salt and pepper. Try this on all or even on a few pieces. Typed in MMFormat by cjhartlin@... Source: Company's Coming Main Courses.

Posted to MM-Recipes Digest V4 #9 by cjhartlin@... on Mar 2, 1999

orange pecan chicken