Honey Garlic Chicken
The most amazing crisp-tender chicken with a honey garlic sauce that is out of this world. So good, you’ll want to use this sauce on everything!
Surprisingly enough, this is a recipe I bookmarked about 4 years ago. And I finally got around to it this week.
Talk about procrastinating. But this dish here was really worth the 4 year wait.
Aside from the amazingly crisp-tender chicken cutlets, the honey garlic sauce is the true star here.
I even set aside a secret stash to drizzle over some rice. Or maybe I’ll just guzzle it down. No one has to know.
Honey Garlic Chicken
The most amazing crisp-tender chicken with a honey garlic sauce that is out of this world!
Ingredients
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- ½ teaspoon paprika
- ¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1 pound boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut crosswise in half
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
- 2 large eggs, beaten
For the honey garlic sauce
- ½ cup honey, or more, to taste
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
Instructions
- In a medium saucepan over medium high heat, combine honey, garlic and soy sauce. In a small bowl, combine cornstarch and 1/4 cup water. Stir mixture into the saucepan until thickened, about 1-2 minutes; set aside.
- Heat vegetable oil in a large skillet over medium high heat.
- In a large bowl, combine flour, thyme, oregano, paprika and cayenne pepper.
- Season chicken with salt and pepper, to taste. Working one at a time, dredge chicken in flour mixture, dip into eggs, then dredge in flour mixture again, pressing to coat.
- Working in batches, add chicken to the skillet, 2 or 3 at a time, and cook until evenly golden and crispy, about 3-4 minutes on each side. Transfer to a paper towel-lined plate.
- Serve immediately with honey garlic sauce.
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This recipe produces an amazing chicken dinner or lunch! The sauce is super good! We had sauce left over and stored it in the ‘fridge for a couple days. We then baked some chicken thighs in the oven and coated them with the leftover sauce. Wow! The sauce even was better after being in the ‘fridge those couple days. We want to try it on baby back spareribs next so will have to make some more sauce.
Oh, forgot to mention that we added a tsp or so of Sriracha Hot Chili Sauce to this sauce (just enough to give it a little zing!).
I made this tonight; it was delicious! I happen to have some orange extract in my cabinet, so I added a few drops – maybe 1/8 t – to the sauce and it was so good! I was wondering, also…have you (or any other readers) ever tried substituting almond meal for the flour in this or another similar, recipe? Thanks for blogging; I really enjoy your recipes!
love your post!! I’m new to cooking, how do I cut a chicken breast crosswise? 🙂
Lisa, there are a lot of step-by-step tutorials online that you can use, or you can use thin-sliced chicken breasts if you prefer.
Lisa, it really doesn’t matter too much how you cut the chicken, but I think the recipe’s timing is based on a thin cutlet. I did not use cutlets but a whole breast, and I just cut it into strips about 1/2″ wide and 3″ long. You will get good at figuring out how long chicken has to cook in its various configurations…good luck!
If you are buying your chicken breasts fresh from the market, you can ask the butcher to cut the breasts for you. They would be happy to do this for you and the service is free. They have the equipment and I’ve always found the cuts to be perfect.
This chicken will definitely be my cheat meal of the week!! Insanely yummy
This sounds so crispy and delicious. The pictures are adorable! The honey dipper especially. I can’t wait to try this one.
Ok, I’ve seen this floating around Pinterest forever too! It always looks SO good, and yours, yup, looks crazy crazy delicious. Glad to hear it was a hit!
I have tried some of your recipes they are all so good thank you for being so kind as to share
has anyone tried this with boneless chicken thighs?
Do you think that would work?
thanks
I’m not sure I can think of anything it wouldn’t work with… Meatballs popped into my head!
I am so happy I found you last month! I have been following you ever since. You have such great recipes – and beautiful pictures to accompany them! I look forward to trying many of them
I have made a lot of your recipes and all of them have been absolutely amazing!!! I found you on pinterest, and I’m definitely going to subscribe:) thanks for your posts! Cant wait to try this one as well!
Def trying this tonight!
I love honey on everything…but it’s especially good as a complement to salty/savory food. I bet it was soooo good here! And I love that big wooden honey dipper! I’ve always wanted one of those 🙂
Oh me too! That’s the first thing I thought when I saw this recipe. Hahaha, I’m glad I’m not the only one! I don’t know why I feel the need to own one…. It just seems so fun and old-worldsy, or something. 😉
I’ve made this recipe with boneless pork chops before and it was amazing- incredibly moist and the sauce has a great flavor. Excited to try it with chicken as well!
This chicken looks great! might try baking them in the oven instead of frying. 🙂
hi,
I have tried another honey garlic chicken recipe from your website ..In that one the chicken was baked..is the sauce same in both .?? please let me know
The sauce is a bit similar but not entirely the same.
P.S. – I’m also ‘sharing’ this ‘baby’ on my Facebook page – it’s too good to miss !
I am so impressed with your website! I came across it last week & began following you immediately. Your photos are amazing – do you do the photography yourself? And, of course, your recipes all look yummy. I have a feeling I’m going to be busy ‘pinning’ all your posts, just like I’m going to be ‘pinning’ this one!
Thank you, Cecile! And yes, all photos are taken by me.
You’re simply amazing !!
THESE PHOTOS! They’re gorgeous and so up close and personal with this chicken – I totally want to bite my screen right now. This chicken looks perfect and DEFINITELY worth the wait! Pinned!
This looks melt-in-the-mouth-tastic 😀 So many amazing flavours in there 😀 I love coated chicken! x
Thank you for the nice recipe.