Apricot Chicken without French Onion Soup

This Apricot Chicken without French Onion Soup Recipe is perfect if you are a fan of apricot chicken but not too keen on a pile of processed foods.

For a busy Mum, it can be super easy to just chuck a tin of apricot and a packet of French onion soup into a dish with some chicken and cook it up.

However, for a stronger taste with less processed foods, give this Apricot Chicken without French Onion Soup a try! It’s deceptively easy and packs a punch in the flavour stakes!

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Serve this up with some rice and veggies for a hearty, nutritious meal that you and your bubs will absolutely love!

Ingredients (serves 6)

2 kg Chicken pieces
800g Tin Apricot Nectar
2 cups Chicken stock
1/2 tsp Curry Powder
1/2 tsp Tumeric
2 tsp Coriander
2 tsp Cumin
2 tsp Crushed garlic
1 onion loosely chopped
1/4 cup plain flour

Method

Preheat oven to 150°C.
I could advise you here before you start to brown the chicken, onion and spices in a pan to strengthen the flavours. But who has time for that in the middle of the afternoon routine!
I just toss all the ingredients (except the chicken) and mix together. Then place chicken in, cover with foil and cook for an hour.
After an hour, remove foil turn over chicken and cook for another hour or until brown and bubbly.
Serve on top of rice or mashed potato.

If you're a fan of this Apricot Chicken without French Onion Soup, you might like some of these other chicken recipes that are made from scratch:

Quinoa Salad with Turkey and Fetta (you can easily replace the turkey mince with chicken mince)
Chicken Mushroom and Bacon Pie
Golden Chicken Schnitzels with Mushroom Gravy

107 Comments

- - ChiWren said
  - 02 Oct 2024
    1:10 pm
I love the sound of this recipe. I’ve seen it many times with the packet soup, which doesn’t appeal to me

- - Lividanke said
  - 26 Aug 2024
    4:27 pm
I’ve got all the ingredients for this.

- - cassy26 said
  - 10 Aug 2024
    10:08 am
Ooh definitely going to try this one. Sounds amazing.

- - Zmijka86 said
  - 09 Jul 2022
    8:56 am
Thank you for sharing. Sounds good

- - mom461384 said
  - 05 Jul 2022
    9:59 pm
I never knew I was made with french onion soup. I’ve always made it with nectar

- - Jessica said
  - 27 Jun 2022
    10:11 pm
I didn’t know you’d make it WITH French onion soup!

- - rovermum said
  - 20 Jun 2022
    10:23 am
We’ve had Apricot Chicken a couple of times using a ready-made packet or jar mix but this looks easy enough to do.

- - mom101628 said
  - 19 Jun 2022
    8:26 pm
This sounds so much nicer than I was expecting, and simpler too. Thanks so much for sharing your recipe.

- - ~Loui~ said
  - 18 Jun 2022
    4:54 pm
What an awesome simple recipe. I particularly like ‘step 2′

- - mom459320 said
  - 18 Jun 2022
    12:36 am
I don’t like apricot with chicken, maybe it’s good for someone else

- - Motherhoodmama said
  - 17 Jun 2022
    8:55 pm
Yes! I hate the onion soup! I will be making this as apricot chicken sounds delicious without it.

- - meedee said
  - 07 Oct 2021
    1:23 pm
I love Apricot chciken….so yummy

- - ashblonde said
  - 18 Jul 2021
    4:42 pm
This is a keeper! I’ve never really liked using french onion soup packets making it & this is all fresh products only.

- - mom62624 said
  - 24 Apr 2021
    6:42 pm
Lovely ingredients and a nice recipe idea.

- - Mom7534689 said
  - 19 Mar 2021
    5:29 pm
Yum, this is going on the dinner list for next week

- - mum300445 said
  - 17 Feb 2021
    1:46 am
Wow, haven’t had apricot chicken since I was a kid! Makes me nostalgic.

- - Sjcapper33 said
  - 16 Jan 2021
    9:57 pm
This seems pretty cheap to make. I’ll try in my slow cooker. Yummy.

- - Cookfromscratchmum said
  - 24 Apr 2020
    11:39 am
Looks like a yummy recipe it’s very popular

- - rachelvk said
  - 04 Apr 2020
    7:15 pm
What an interesting recipe!
- rachelvk replied
  
  05 Apr 2020 , 4:49 pm
  I recall my mum making something similar many years ago.
- - rachel1970 said
  - 30 Sep 2019
    8:22 pm
My sister in law made this for me when I babysat her children. Was really nice.