Chicken with peaches - do you use fruit in your main dishes?

We have some dishes where we use banana as an ingredient... i think it is called "Puchero"... it is like pork stew... but i love using pineapple in some of the few dishes that i can cook... like i use it when cooking ham... or to give fried rice a distinct taste... i put some crushed pineapple in it... There is also a Filipino dish where we use guava... and it is called "Bulanglang"... it taste great... but i don't know how to cook it...

i use pineapple, in a chicken recipe but thats all. for me fruits are more appreciated by my children when you eat it fresh not cooked with the main dish. i tried to put pineapple once with beef but my children didnt find it good. or maybe it was not really good lol.

Hi whittby, You may not have considered it so, but you're probably already using fruit extensively in your cooking. Pumpkins, squash, tomatoes, capsicums, peppers, eggplant, and so on - they're all fruits, even though our traditional mindset pigeon-holes them into the "vegetable" category because that's generally how we use them. Anyway, one category of fruit that I don't think you can go wrong with if you want to experiment with cooked meat dishes is dried fruits like raisins, sultanas and currants. They invariably add flavor to the dish that they're included in, as well as complement it. They absorb fluids and so take on flavors from the other stuff in the recipe. It certainly adds a bit of color to one's culinary creations. Sliced apples also add some variety to many cooked dishes, and might be worth a try, although I'd suggest that moist dishes would be best to avoid the apple drying out or charring. I hope you have fun experimenting!

I make boneless chicken with peaches. My recipe is by memory and I made it smaller. The original was 8 pieces of chicken to much for two people. Here is my version. I make it with 4 pieces of skinless boneless chicken, then add 2 peaches that are peeled pit removed and sliced. I sprinkle on ginger, ground cloves and lemon juice put in a preheated oven. Heat oven to 350 degrees and bake 30 minutes. Its a great healthy meal and easy to serve. I like to serve fruit and try to serve some at every meal.

Normally I do not, but I have a few times. I made pork chops with sweet potatoes and apples once. Another time I made pork chops with cranberries. Pineapple is good in sweet and sour chicken or pork. That is about the extent of my experience with fruit and the main dish.

Pork with apricots or apples is very good too. It's also good in stuffing as well. I also use pineapple with pork and fried rice. I can't think of any casseroles that I have used fruit in.

the only thing ever used is Pineapple on Hams pretty good but I havent added any fruit to anything else might be something to try for a change a pace thanks for the idea

I like grilled chicken and pineapple...very good. **AT PEACE WITHIN** ~~STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS~~

My mother used to make a dish that had raisins in it. Finding it... well, probably not happening. I've had a pork dish that had apples in it. Not my favorite, but tasty. My mother often served pork chops with apple sauce on the side.

I made chicken salad and didn't have any grapes that I love in it. I had some tangerines, so I cut it up and put it in there. I really liked the tangerines in the chicken salad.

I like cranberry sauce and all kinds of cranberry juices with my meals. Cranberry is good for a lot of health problems like bladder infection and kidney problems. Any urinary problems. Cranberries with turkey dinner is a MUST on any holiday.

I put LOTS of pineapple in my sweet and sour meatballs, and I love putting apples on my pork roasts... the flavor is amazing! I think many people have been trained to think of fruit as something separate from the main part of the meal.. thats too bad, because fruit can be savory as well as sweet. Plums are also good with meat, and (surprisingly) raisins and grapes.

I do cook my ham with pineapples on top of it. It gives my ham a sweet taste and takes out some of the salt, as I find ham is too salty. Some people have pineapple on their pizza but I don't like it that way. I have put lemon on my chicken and on my fish, when cooking, as well as after cooking. I have never heard of putting peaches on my chicken, but since you say it is good I may give it a try. I use apple sauce with my pork, but I don't put any on when I am cooking it, just after while eating it.

I have never cooked a main dish that included fruit. Me personally think fruit is meant for snacks and desserts. But I guess if done right it can be good other ways too.

your right most of fruit will be use in salad & dessert but never try this new recipe, that with fruit i think it will be yummy hmmmmmm, i think i will forget again my diet.

I usually cook fruit with pork - ham, pork loin, pork roast. Or, if I don't have fruit I might use jam. I like the sweet taste of the pork and fruit cooked together.

Hi whittby, This discussion is really making me hungry. I'll have to try some of these things, when we come back from March Break. My sister serves pork chops with apple sauce, and I've just been reminded of a cranberry pork chop recipe she used to make. It's delicious, and since we're spending March Break together, maybe I'll ask her about it. I've had chicken with apple juice over it too, and it's very good. I've been inspired to be more creative in my cooking here. Thanks.

Unfortunately I have had to eat apricot chicken like almost every week of my life, till I went to college. I'm so sick of it I can't stand it at all. I don't think it's really all that bad, and definitely not uncommon, but so tiresome after a while. Apples are often used with meat, but not beef to my knowledge. Usually you would use apples with port I think. Seafood is often combined with fruit salsas, that's usually a mix of tropical fruits that have been chopped very finely, like other salsas. Orange chicken is also pretty popular, cranberry chicken is amazing. It's really simple too. Put chicken in crock pot, dump 1 can of cranberry sauce on it and one bottle of Catalina dressing (no joke, it really is good) turn on and come back in 6hrs. Fastest most amazing chicken ever, almost.

I have actually had both lemon and orange chicken dishes. I also have had blackened chicken with a hint of lime in it. Also, last summer I had experimented with some peach-pineapple salsa, mainly because I intiutively thought it would taste better on chicken than on my tortilla chips. And I was right. I marinated the chicken for 24 hours in the peach-pineapple salsa and then I broiled it with a little mesquite and other barbeque seasonings on it. It was good.