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Fruit and Nut Stuffed Chicken Breasts Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
1 1lb.4-ounce Can Crushed Pineapple
½ Cup Butter or Margarine
1 Cup Diced Peeled Apple
½ Cup Chopped Pecans
½ Cup Golden Seedless Raisins
1 Cup Fine Dry Bread Crumbs
½ tsp Ground Cinnamon
¼ tsp Ground Nutmeg
¼ tsp Ground Ginger
⅛ tsp Ground Cloves
½ tsp Salt
6 whole chicken breasts
Salt and pepper
¼ Cup Melted Butter or Margarine
Directions:
Directions:
Drain crushed pineapple and measure ½ cup of the fruit.
Set aside the remaining pineapple and syrup to use in Fruit Sauce.
Melt butter in skillet; add apple and nuts and cook over moderate heat for 10 minutes.
Stir in raisins, the ½ cup crushed pineapple, bread crumbs, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, cloves and the ½ teaspoon salt.
Heat oven to 375° (moderately hot).
Wash and dry chicken breasts and crack center bone so the two halves will fold together, but do not separate them.
Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
Place about ⅓ cup of the stuffing in each breast; fold breast together.
Hold in place with toothpicks or lace with string.
Place breasts in a 3- quart shallow baking dish. Pour melted butter over chicken and bake 25 minutes; turn and bake 20 minutes longer, or until tender.
Pour Fruit Sauce over chicken and bake 10 minutes.

If dinner is delayed, reduce oven temperature to 250 F. (very low).
Cover loosely with foil and keep warm in oven for up to 30 minutes.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
This recipe is one that was cut from a magazine/news paper and taped into her catalog of recipes. It references a "fruit sauce" a few times that was at one time found on the same magazine/news paper but unfortunately was not found in her recipes. Mom-mom may have had it at one time or just used the remaining pineapple. She also may have skipped that step altogether.

 

 

 

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