Brown Sugar Bourbon Chicken
with Apple Pan Sauce, Scallion Mashed Potatoes & Broccoli
- Milk
Always raising the bar, this week, our chefs amped up pork chop flavors big time! Tender chops are coated in brown sugar bourbon seasoning (which is all kinds of savory-sweet), then cooked and topped with a buttery apple pan sauce. Crispy roasted broccoli and scallion-flecked mashed potatoes pair perfectly with the main event. Winner, winner, pork chop dinner!
Ingredients
12 ounce
Potatoes
8 ounce
Broccoli Florets
1 unit
Apple
2 unit
Scallions
10 ounce
Chicken Cutlets
10.8 g
Brown Sugar Bourbon Seasoning
1 unit
Chicken Stock Concentrate
1.5 tablespoon
Sour Cream
(Contains: Milk)
Not included in your delivery
Salt
Pepper
1 teaspoon
Cooking Oil
1 teaspoon
Olive Oil
½ teaspoon
Sugar
2 tablespoon
Butter
(Contains: Milk)
Nutrition Values
Utensils
Cooking Steps
• Adjust rack to middle position and preheat oven to 425 degrees. Wash and dry produce. • Dice potatoes into ½-inch pieces. Place in a medium pot with enough salted water to cover by 2 inches. Bring to a boil and cook until tender, 15-20 minutes. • Reserve ½ cup potato cooking liquid, then drain and return potatoes to pot. • Keep covered off heat until ready to mash in step 5.
• While potatoes cook, pat pork dry with paper towels. Season all over with Brown Sugar Bourbon Seasoning. • Heat a drizzle of oil in a large pan over medium-high heat. Add pork and cook until browned and cooked through, 4-6 minutes per side. TIP: If the pork begins to brown too quickly, reduce heat to medium. • Turn off heat; transfer pork to a plate. Wipe out pan.
Swap in chicken for pork; cook until cooked through, 3-5 minutes per side.
• While pork cooks, cut broccoli into bite-size pieces if necessary. Toss on a baking sheet with a drizzle of olive oil, salt, and pepper. Roast on middle rack until lightly browned, 15-20 minutes. • Meanwhile, halve, core, and dice apple into ¼-inch pieces. Trim and thinly slice scallions, separating whites from greens.
• Melt 1 TBSP butter (2 TBSP for 4 servings) in pan used for pork 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 (¾ cup for 4), and ½ tsp sugar (1 tsp for 4). Cook until sauce has thickened and apple is tender, 5-7 minutes. • In the last 2 minutes, return pork to pan until warmed through. Season with salt and pepper. Turn off heat.
Use pan used for chicken here.
• Mash potatoes until mostly smooth. • Stir in scallion greens, sour cream, 1 TBSP butter (2 TBSP for 4 servings), and a splash of reserved potato cooking liquid. Season with salt and pepper. TIP: If needed, add more potato cooking liquid a splash at a time until potatoes are smooth and creamy.
• Divide pork, mashed potatoes, and broccoli between plates. Top pork with apple pan sauce and serve.
Chicken is fully cooked when internal temperature reaches 165°.
Customer reviews
Review summary
Updated on Feb 2026- Flavor: Many loved the apple pan sauce, finding it delicious and unique. Some found the brown sugar bourbon seasoning surprisingly good.
- Ease of prep: Several noted it was easy to follow, though a few found juggling multiple components time-consuming.
- Suggestions: Consider adding a splash of lemon juice to brighten the sauce. Some preferred steaming the broccoli for better texture.
- Portions: A few mentioned small potato portions; consider adding extra if needed for a heartier meal.
- Protein: While designed for pork, many enjoyed it with chicken too. Some found the chicken version slightly drier.
Reviews from our home cooks
I love this recipe! I never would've thought to use a bourbon spice rub or to sauté apples with scallions. The baked broccoli was delicious too. My 6 year-old and I loved it!
The Apple-based savory sauce worked well with Chicken, and also gave the mashed potato flavor as well. Overall not too hard to make, but takes a bit of cooking time due to boiling of potatoes (for mashed potatoes) and baking of broccoli in oven
Really delicious and unique. I've never made an apple pan sauce, but it was delicious! The potatoes were bomb.
Awesome flavor, easy to make. Love the apple sauce and spices
I really don't like this method of cooking the mashed potatoes. This would have worked much better with a more conventional method. But now that I have tried it, I know that I don't like it. A lesson learned is valuable. The seasoning was surprisingly good, but we're not into sweeter stuff, so we ended up using half for our tastes, and not adding sugar at all.
Love the pan sauce. Needed a little acid, a bit of lemon juice really helped!
Unique and fun to try. I do think that the pan sauce could have been better (not sure chicken stick was the best thing to add to the apples; maybe honey or maple syrup instead), but overall very good!
Potatoes seemed a little light, so we added one of ours. Also, we customized this with chicken rather than pork. Otherwise though, it was delicious. Loved the apple pan sauce.
Chicken was excellent, but trying to juggle all of the steps with the broccoli and potatoes as well was complicated and time-consuming.
Delicious and so easy to follow, my 16 year old made the meal!
