Roasted Chicken with Honey Bacon Pears
A delicious meal, Roasted Chicken with Honey, Bacon, and Pears. This comfort, easy chicken recipe can be served over rice or polenta!
Friends, happy FIRST DAY OF FALL!
Enjoy this one-pot chicken and pears dish for a weeknight meal.
With the sweet flavors of pears with savory bacon, it’s the perfect dinner combination. You may also love my Delicious Pear Quinoa Salad or Brussels Sprout Pear Bratwurst Sheet Pan Dinner!
Or, if you love chicken dishes, try this popular One-Pot Chicken Paprika Thighs recipe!
One-Pot Roasted Chicken with Honey Bacon Pears
Start with your favorite braiser or large cooking skillet (with a lid).
I started by sautéing the bacon and onions.
Add the chicken. Mix the pears with honey …
Hot in the pan, I served it on a bed of arugula.
Ingredients for this chicken and pear dish
- Chicken breasts
- Sweet onion
- Olive oil
- Bacon
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- White wine
- Fresh thyme
- Honey
- Barlett pears (our favorite this time of year)
I love this quote from Pooh … perfect for today.
“It’s the first day of autumn! A time of hot chocolatey mornings, and toasty marshmallow evenings, and, best of all, leaping into leaves!” Winnie the Pooh
One-pot chicken dishes are my favorite for Fall! And of course the lovely colors, breeze, scent of the forest, chilly mornings. Yes to hot chocolate or coffee in the morning. Sweaters, boots, vests, and scarves. Brisk walks and ….. I JUST LOVE FALL!
Roasted Chicken with Honey Bacon Pears
This week I made this killer recipe that I had waiting for my sweet guy when he got home from coaching soccer.
Sweet and delicious, and it’s pear season! YAY! We love pears, and I’ll be sharing a few more recipes coming up this season, with delicious pears!
More dishes with pears:
Brussels Sprouts Recipe with Pears, Blue Cheese, and Walnuts [The Cookie Rookie], Pear Almond Barley Salad [Wishes and Dishes].
Get the Recipe:
Roasted Chicken with Honey Bacon Pears
Ingredients
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400°F. Rinse the chicken, then dry it very well with paper towels, cutting the breasts in half. Salt and pepper each piece.
- Heat 2 tablespoons olive oil in a pan over medium heat, adding the chopped onions and bacon and sautéing for 3-4 minutes. Add the wine and cook for another 2 minutes. Remove the onions and bacon from the pan and set aside.
- In the same pan, add a few tablespoons of olive oil and fry the chicken breast on each side for 2 minutes, or until golden brown.
- In a separate bowl, toss the pears, honey, 1 tablespoon of freshly chopped thyme, and salt and pepper. Drizzle the mixture with olive oil. Mix and set aside.
- Place the onion mixture on the bottom of a roasting pan, with chicken breasts on top. Sprinkle with 1 tablespoon freshly chopped thyme, and place the pan in the hot oven. Roast the chicken for 20 minutes.
- The last 10 minutes, remove the chicken from the oven and pour the pear mixture with the juices over the top. Bake another 10 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and serve right away on a bed of polenta, mashed potatoes, mashed sweet potatoes, or arugula. Garnish with fresh thyme.
Notes
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We received a holiday package of pears and I knew I wanted to create something savory.
This recipe was delicious and my husband can’t stop raving about it.
I wanted to add a bit of warmth to it, so added a teaspoon of chili crisp to the pear mixture to cut through the sweetness
This is definitely a solid addition to my repertoire.
Is there a substitute for the white wine? We do not drink, so wondered what we can get at the grocery store. It really looks good.
Hi Debbie, you can replace the white wine with chicken broth or white grape juice!
What could we use if we didn’t want to use wine? If we do use whine, which white do you recommend?
We recommend chicken broth or white grape juice. If using white wine, we usually use chardonnay.
This was fabulous! I had a bunch of pears to use so I was looking for recipes that were not dessert. This one is going in the definitely will make again file! I served it over polenta made with manchego and it was delicious!
This recipe was delicious!! My family loved all the flavors
Made it with a whole spatchcocked chicken, took a little longer but delicious. Served with polenta and arugula. Amazing
I live alone, so I’m trying to cut the recipe down to one breast. Wish me luck when I make it.
We have a Bartlett pear tree and every year I try to find recipes to use them in. This recipe is amazing. I used bone in thighs and legs and instead of fresh thyme I used dried thyme and guesstimated how much to use.. I probably used about 1 Tbsp. overall. I added cut up potatoes and carrots to the roasting pan with the chicken and roasted for about 45 minutes. This will most definitely be a yearly favorite.
I was looking on Pinterest for a good bacon pear recipe to make for my boyfriend and I found this one. When reading your story about your anniversary (congrats by the way!) You said you were from Oregon, as well as me so I thought this was the perfect dish to make for him! Ill probably add some gorgonzola cheese to kick it up a notch but thank you for the Wonderful recipe!
Ashley.
Thanks for sharing, and I hope you enjoyed the recipe!
Oh my goodness, this is so delicious!! All the flavors blend perfectly! I used boneless chicken thighs. A new and wonderful way to use up those pears! Thanks!
Hi, Sandy! I’m thinking of making this for a summer potluck at work. Wondering if you’ve ever tried this recipe in a crock pot – if so, I’d love to find out how it worked out!
I’ve never tried it in the crock pot, Katheryn. I’d worry the pears would be too mushy, I think! Let me know if it works!
I just love your blogs and, especially the one today! Your recipes inspire me and encourage me to entertain more often!
This June my husband and I will have celebrated 50 years of marriage! We have not always known our LORD and have had some really rough years. The last 30 years have miraculously overshadowed the first years. My husband and I are now gloriously in love and, since we are in great health, have loved traveling together and recapturing the years that seemed lost at the time! God restored a dead marriage and has restored the years that “the locust ate”!!! Thanks, Vee
Love hearing this, Vee. Thanks for our inspiration, and for being a faithful reader here at RE! xo