Honey Garlic Chicken Recipe

Sticky and Easy Honey Garlic Chicken made fast and simple, with the most amazing 5-ingredient honey garlic sauce that is so good you’ll want to use it on everything!

With a recipe that includes both chicken thighs AND chicken breasts, you’re just minutes away from the most addictive Honey Garlic Chicken dinner the whole family loves! The perfect meal to have when you feel like eating something sweet with a hint of savoury.

Crisp and sticky skin (which is optional), a beautiful sauce and perfectly cooked chicken. It doesn’t get any better!

This super-simple recipe makes a crisp-tender chicken with a perfect, sticky glaze. You may (or may not) remember the crispy oven fried chicken I made a couple months ago? Well, this sauce was so good on those chicken pieces, that I wondered what would happen if I cooked some pieces right in the sauce without any crumbing or breading needed.

This sauce not only tastes amazing, it’s incredible satisfying watching it bubble and morph into a perfectly balanced savoury, sweet and garlicky syrup. But your mouth really begins to water watching the sauce simmer all around your chicken and coat it so effortlessly. The bonus of this recipe? It makes up so much sauce that you have enough to drizzle to over some rice or steamed broccoli.

Chicken thighs are perfect for this recipe, since dark meat is super moist and packed full of flavour. Although, we also love this recipe with chicken breasts… they are incredible in this sauce.

The best part about this Honey Garlic Chicken? You have ALL the ingredients in your kitchen pantry/kitchen tap/refrigerator already.

So few ingredients needed for the perfect sweet to salty honey garlic sauce that will have you licking your fingers after every juicy bite.

Easy Honey Garlic Chicken Recipe

Sticky and Easy Honey Garlic Chicken made simple, with the most amazing and addictive 5-ingredient honey garlic sauce that is so good you’ll want it on everything! Quick and easy using chicken thighs or breasts, your new family favourite chicken dinner is here! ORIGINAL RECIPE BY KARINA, CAFEDELITES ©

Prep: 10min

Total: 30min

Yield: 6

Serving Size: 1 serving

Nutrition Facts: calories 384 kcal, Carbohydrate 17 g, Protein 24 g, Fat 24 g, Saturated Fat 6 g, Cholesterol 141 mg, Sodium 281 mg, Sugar 15 g, servingSize 1 serving

Ingredients:

• 6 chicken thighs, (bone in or out, with or without skin*)
• Salt and pepper, (to season)
• 2 teaspoons garlic powder, (to season)
• 6 cloves garlic, (crushed)
• 1/3 cup honey
• 1/4 cup water ((or chicken broth))
• 2 tablespoons rice wine vinegar ((or apple cider vinegar, or any white vinegar))
• 1 tablespoon soy sauce

Instruction:

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Honey Garlic Chicken

This Honey Garlic Chicken recipe is so easy to prepare and will be a family favorite! Made with chicken breasts and a four ingredient honey garlic sauce.

Prep: 5min

Total: 17min

Serving Size: 1 grams

Nutrition Facts: calories 444 calories, Carbohydrate 44 grams carbohydrates, Cholesterol 72 milligrams cholesterol, Fat 18 grams fat, Protein 27 grams protein, Saturated Fat 2 grams saturated fat, servingSize 1 grams, Sodium 1009 milligrams sodium, Sugar 36 grams sugar, unSaturated Fat 0 grams unsaturated fat

Ingredients:

• 1 lb boneless, skinless chicken breasts
• salt, black pepper, and garlic powder
• 1/4 cup flour
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 3 tsp minced garlic
• 2 tbsp sliced green onions
• 1 tbsp toasted sesame seeds
• 1/2 cup honey
• 1/4 cup light soy sauce
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 1 tbsp hoisin sauce

Instruction:

1. Whisk together honey, light soy sauce, olive oil, and hoisin sauce in a small bowl. Set aside for later.
2. Cut boneless, skinless chicken breasts into pieces. Sprinkle with salt, black pepper, and garlic powder.
3. Put the chicken pieces in a gallon sized plastic bag. Add the flour, close the top of the bag, and shake the chicken to coat it evenly with flour.
4. Heat olive oil over medium-high heat. Add the flour coated chicken. Cook for about three minutes, flip the pieces over and cook for another three minutes.
5. Add the minced garlic, stir and cook for two minutes.
6. Turn the heat down to medium. Add the honey garlic sauce. Stir and cook for 3-4 minutes.
7. Sprinkle with toasted sesame seeds and sliced green onions.

Honey garlic chicken ! Dinner ready in 15 minutes

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