

Yes! Cook the chicken as directed and transfer to the bowl of a slow cooker. Can I cook this apricot chicken in the slow cooker? The word nectar is used as the result tends to be thicker and more syrupy than a juice. Unlike oranges, apples and pears, they can’t be juiced, so instead, they are pureed, sweetened and added to water. What is the difference between apricot juice and nectar?Īpricots aren’t a very juicy fruit. Thanks to recipes like this we’ll be eating apricot chicken for generations to come.- Alison Adams - Food Writer and Recipe Tester sweet and savoury sauce - this is the comfort food of my childhood with a bit of a grown-up edge. This apricot chicken recipe is a twist on the one mum made, swapping the French onion soup for Moroccan spice mix to create. The remaining nectar was stored in the fridge where we’d sneak decadent sips straight from the can. In the case of cans of apricot nectar, we used the pointy part of the can opener to pierce two holes on the top of the can to allow the thick syrup to glug into the frying pan. Before the (brilliant) invention of ring pull cans, we were at the mercy of can openers. Ham steaks Hawaiian (grilled ham with pineapple) was on high rotation in our house, my mother would set grated carrot in orange jelly and serve as a side at barbecues, and restaurants were serving up duck a l’orange. The 1970’s saw us getting pretty creative with our dinners, especially when it came to adding fruit to savoury dishes.
