Chicken With Apricots

Total Time: 20 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 1/4 cups dried orzo pasta (8 oz.)
• low sodium chicken broth
• 15 ounces can unpeeled apricot halves in light syrup
• 4 boneless skinless chicken breast halves
• 1 1/2 teaspoons curry powder
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• crushed red pepper flakes
• 6 green onions

Recipe

• 1 cook orzo according to package; drain. (instead of using water use chicken broth)
• 2 drain apricot halves, reserving 1/2 cup syrup.
• 3 meanwhile, sprinkle chicken with salt, pepper and 1/2 teaspoon curry powder.
• 4 heat oil in large skillet over medium heat with crushed red pepper flakes
• 5 add chicken; cook for 8 minutes or until no longer pink (170 degrees f), turning once.
• 6 add apricots the last 2 minutes.
• 7 transfer to plates.
• 8 cut green tops of 2 onions into diagonal slices; set aside; chop remaining onions.
• 9 add chopped onion and remaining curry powder to skillet; cook 1 minute.
• 10 stir in reserved syrup and orzo.
• 11 add to plates.
• 12 sprinkle onion tops.