Brown Sugar Bourbon Chicken
with Garlic Mashed Potatoes & Broccoli
- Milk
Winner, winner, chicken dinner! Chicken cutlets are satisfying, speedy, and oh-so versatile, which is why our chefs are always thinking up new ways to take them to the next level. This week, they amped up the flavors… big time! Sweet and savory is the name of the game here. Coated in brown sugar bourbon spice, these cutlets are seared and topped with a buttery apple pan sauce. Zesty broccoli and garlic mashed potatoes pair perfectly with the main event. Prepare yourself for a flavor explosion.
Ingredients
1.5 tablespoon
Sour Cream
(Contains: Milk)
12 ounce
Potatoes
8 ounce
Broccoli
1 unit
Chicken Stock Concentrate
1 unit
Brown Sugar Bourbon Seasoning
1 unit
Lemon
1 unit
Apple
1 clove
Garlic
10 ounce
Chicken Cutlets
2 unit
Scallions
Not included in your delivery
½ teaspoon (tsp)
Sugar
1 teaspoon (tsp)
Olive Oil
2 teaspoon (tsp)
Cooking Oil
2 tablespoon (tbsp)
Butter
(Contains: Milk)
Nutrition Values
Utensils
Cooking Steps
• Adjust rack to top position and preheat oven to 425 degrees. Wash and dry produce. • Dice potatoes into ½-inch pieces. Peel garlic. Cut broccoli into bite-size pieces if necessary. Halve, core, and dice apple into ¼-inch pieces. Trim and thinly slice scallions, separating whites from greens. Zest and quarter lemon.
• Place potatoes and whole garlic in a medium pot with enough salted water to cover by 2 inches. Bring to a boil and cook until tender, 10-12 minutes. • Reserve ½ cup potato cooking liquid, then drain and return potatoes and garlic to pot. • Keep covered off heat until ready to mash.
• Toss broccoli on a baking sheet with a drizzle of oil, salt, and pepper. • Roast on top rack until browned and tender, 15-20 minutes.
• While broccoli roasts, pat chicken* dry with paper towels. Season lightly with salt and pepper, then rub all over with Brown Sugar Bourbon Seasoning. • Heat a drizzle of oil in a large pan over medium heat. Add chicken and cook until browned and cooked through, 5-7 minutes per side. • Turn off heat; transfer to a plate. Wipe out pan.
• Heat 1 TBSP butter (2 TBSP for 4 servings) and a drizzle of oil in same pan over medium-high heat. Add apple and scallion whites; season with salt and pepper. Cook, stirring occasionally, until golden, 4-6 minutes. • Stir in stock concentrate, ½ cup water, and ½ tsp sugar. (For 4, use ¾ cup water and 1 tsp sugar.) Cook until apple is tender and sauce has thickened, 5-7 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. • In the last 2 minutes, add chicken to pan; turn a few times to coat.
• While sauce cooks, mash drained potatoes and garlic with sour cream and 1 TBSP butter (2 TBSP for 4 servings) until smooth and creamy, adding splashes of reserved potato cooking liquid as needed. Season with salt and pepper. TIP: If necessary, rewarm over low heat.
• Carefully toss roasted broccoli with lemon zest. • Divide chicken, garlic mashed potatoes, and zesty broccoli between plates. Spoon remaining sauce from pan over chicken and garnish with scallion greens. Serve with lemon wedges on the side.
Chicken is fully cooked when internal temperature reaches 165º.
Customer reviews
Review summary
Updated on Dec 2025- Flavor: Many loved the brown sugar bourbon seasoning and apple sauce, calling it "phenomenal" and "restaurant quality" 🍲.
- Ease of prep: Some found timing tricky with multiple components; consider prepping sides first before starting chicken.
- Suggestions: For thicker sauce, reduce water or simmer longer; add extra garlic to potatoes for more flavor.
- Leftovers: Tastes best fresh; some found reheated potatoes and broccoli less appealing.
- Portions: A few wished for larger chicken pieces or more broccoli; consider supplementing if very hungry.
Reviews from our home cooks
It was a delicious meal, the brown sugar/apple combo was very good and the garlic mashed potatoes went with it perfectly! We especially loved the broccoli! Easy to cook but definitely took twice the time noted on the instructions.
Everything about this was AMAZING! I thought I wouldn't like the apples, but they just provided a sweet, textural addition. The mashed potatoes were delicious, and the broccoli I left in the oven a little too long (it's so hard to time everything!) but it was still so good! I especially liked the lemon zest on it. My husband said, "This is my favorite one yet!"
I really did like the flavor of this chicken, and the fresh cut produce in the sauce worked really well. Also the lemon zest for the broccoli was brilliant. I never thought of adding zest to roasted vegetables before
I chose to steam the broccoli with some carrots which made the meal even lower in calories. Always baking the broccoli, as many of your recipes direct, makes it dry out no matter how hard I try to avoid that. Steaming maintains flavor and results in a better tasting vegetable. Overall, the meal was delicious. The chicken was so moist. The meats in Hello Fresh meals are always top quality.
This meal was time consuming and involved a lot more steps than usual. The flavors were ok but nothing that great. I didn't like the garlic mashed potatoes with the brown sugar bourbon chicken. I didn't think they went well together. I love the garlic mashed but not with this dish. Too many different flavors going on. Def not one of my favorites.
The flavors were great, the broccoli with lemon zest was perfect. I didn't know that apple could go so well with chicken! We did only get 3 chicken breasts so I would've had to cut one in half and so we didn't feel as full with this meal today. There also wasn't enough broccoli for the 4 of us, so we had to have smaller portions of that too. The potatoes turned out well though and there was enough for all of us.
I really liked this recipe. The combination of the lemon zest and the broccoli was wonderful. Before this, I wasn't much of a broccoli fan, but this was delicious.
I skipped the lemon zest and did not serve with wedges. Overall great flavor to all portions of the meal. Loved the roasted broccoli! The apples in the sauce were great and really added to the chicken.
I microwaved the broccoli to reduce the oil used in roasting, which I learned from HelloFresh. Then I roasted the chicken which I prefer to frying. (which I also learned from HelloFresh) Everything else was yummy!
The sauce is yummy! The brown sugar bourbon seasoning made the chicken tasty! Will look for this one again.
