Honey Garlic Chicken Recipe – Honey Garlic Chicken Breast

Honey Garlic Chicken is an easy homemade recipe can be made in 10 minutes make a perfect busy weeknight dinner for your entire family.

Honey Garlic Chicken

This Honey Garlic Chicken Recipe is so juicy and moist from inside and of course, tender chicken pieces with awesome honey sauce will make your day.

This garlic honey chicken recipes can be made with both chicken thighs and chicken breasts, Make it with chicken thighs and call it honey garlic chicken thighs or make it with wings call it honey garlic chicken wings.

But in this recipe, I am making honey garlic chicken breast, because I always prefer breasts over thighs as I am gym person want more lean protein not protein with saturated fat. Though you can try honey garlic chicken thighs sometimes, but in a limit.

Honey Garlic Chicken breast

Your entire family will love this meal! And you will love it because it is easy to make and has the most incredible lemon garlic honey glaze. Simple, minimal ingredients, and big on flavor. That is how we like ’em!

The chicken gets cooked in butter on the skillet infusing delicious flavor and making the chicken tender and juicy. And then the glaze that goes on top is incredible.

A little bit of tang from the lemon, plus the sweet honey, and garlic all come together to add big flavor to this simple meal.

How to Make the Honey Garlic Sauce?

Easy Honey Garlic Chicken

The sauce is the main thing which plays the major role here, without sauce it’s just like a fried chicken recipe or baked chicken breast.

So how to make it? First of all, you need a good quality natural honey which will give you that thickness and consistency. Second of all, you need soy sauce (Low sodium) and fresh garlic (as the recipe says). See the steps below in the recipe card.

What to serve with Garlic Honey Chicken?

I personally love to serve my honey garlic chicken thighs is with warm basmati rice or Noodles/Pasta!

Honey Garlic Chicken Recipe

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Honey Garlic Chicken

Honey Garlic Chicken

Honey Garlic Chicken is an easy homemade recipe can be made in 10 minutes make a perfect busy weeknight dinner for your entire family.

Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 15 minutes

Ingredients

  • 1 pound Chicken breast, boneless, skinless
  • 2 Tablespoons olive oil or butter
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground paprika
  • 5-6 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1/4 cup honey
  • 2 teaspoons white vinegar
  • 3 tablespoons soy sauce
  • Chopped parsley or cilantro for garnish

Instructions

  1. Combine honey, vinegar and soy sauce together in a bowl and set aside.
  2. Season both sides of chicken breasts with ground black pepper and paprika.
  3. Heat a skillet over medium-high heat. Add butter and then add chicken pieces and cook until skin is brown. Flip the chicken and cook another 2 minutes until browned.
  4. Add the garlic and cook for another 1 minute, or until the garlic is softened. Reduce the heat, pour in the sauce into the skillet and cook on simmer of about 2 minutes until the sauce reaches out desired thickness.
  5. Garnish with chopped parsley or cilantro and serve over rice.

Nutrition Information

Serving Size

4

Amount Per Serving Calories 271Total Fat 10gSaturated Fat 2gCholesterol 83mgSodium 818mgCarbohydrates 21gSugar 16gProtein 26g

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