Bacon-Wrapped Apple BBQ Chicken

This Christmas I got a new, and much bigger crockpot so I'm excited to try some new recipes and post about them! Last year I started blogging about what I was cooking and then got pregnant and NOTHING seemed appealing so I certainly didn't want to write about food (I couldn't even stand the smell of most food!) I recently came across a website through Facebook called The Crockin' Girls or www.crockingirls.com and this came from there. I made it with a few modifications:

1. no lemon juice (I have a severe lemon allergy, I hope excluding this doesn't ruin it)
2. I cooked it for 4 hours on high (I only had 4 hours before dinner)
3. I used precooked bacon (It was all we had in the house)

We will see how it turns out! I'll post a verdict later.

Bacon-Wrapped Apple BBQ Chicken
3-4 chicken breasts
1/2 cup BBQ sauce
1-2 apples, peeled and grated
1 lemon, juiced
6-8 slices bacon

Directions:
1. In small bowl, combine BBQ sauce with grated apple and lemon juice.
2. Place chicken breasts in base of crock pot, pour BBQ/apple mixture over the chicken. Wrap 2 pieces of bacon around each chicken breast. Set to low and cook for 8 hours.


The website says to serve with sweet potatoes, baked potatoes, mashed potatoes or rice. I think that we'll probably opt for rice because that's what we have in the house but I'd love some sweet potatoes!

Verdict:

This was not my favorite but we might try it again. I made a LOT of modifications on this one because I wasn't planning on making it and so I had to use what I had in the house. In the future I think I'd use a sweeter BBQ sauce than I had on hand and also use raw bacon (I used precooked for the recipe). Also, a honey crisp apple would probably bring a lot of flavor. We'll see. It was super easy! One thing that I learned was that I hate using a manual grater. I never use it but I thought it would be faster than using the food processor (when you consider the cleaning). WRONG! I should have just used the food processor to grate the apple. Oh well! Live and learn!