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    Honey Garlic Chicken Recipe

    Published: Jul 21, 2018 · Modified: Jul 1, 2021 by Muna · This post may contain affiliate links ·

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    Honey Garlic Chicken is a recipe for chicken breast or chicken thighs smothered in a honey garlic sauce. This dish will make it to your dinner table in less than 20 minutes. Serve honey garlic chicken with plain steamed rice or vegetable fried rice.

    Honey Garlic Chicken served in a bowl and ready to be eaten. #chickenrecipe #chicken #dinner #garlicchicken

    When I first heard of honey garlic chicken, I thought (Honey and chicken!!) the idea was not appealing to me, but when I tried it, I became a fan. The combination of the garlic sauce and the amount of honey was perfect, and now I’m thinking of using the same honey garlic sauce in a seafood dish.

    Honey garlic chicken tastes good with either part of the chicken, but when you make the sauce, I would suggest that you always use low sodium soy sauce.

    Controlling the amount of salt in your dinner is key, and if you decided to use more soy sauce for this dish, then regular soy sauce will ruin it for you.  

    Honey Garlic Chicken in a frying pan and piping hot.

    How to make honey garlic chicken

    Another tip while cooking honey garlic chicken is to cook on high heat but reduce the heat when adding the honey to medium. I have used skinless bite-size chicken, so cooking on high made this dish ready in no time. In case you want to cook with whole chicken breast or with whole chicken thighs with bones, keep the heat high for the first 4 minutes and then reduce it to help the chicken breast or thigh cook perfectly from the inside without getting it burnt.

    seasoned chicken and flour for dusting.
    chicken is added to hot oil.
    seared chicken in a hot pan.
    garlic, vinegar, soy sauce were added to the chicken.
    Honey Garlic sauce with chicken is ready to be served.

    Make this recipe gluten-free by omitting the dusting with flour part or use corn starch instead. The role of the flour here is to make the sauce thicker and richer, and skipping it won’t affect the taste.

    The honey garlic sauce

    In some recipes, the amount of the garlic honey sauce is enough to coat the chicken, but my family loves more sauce in their honey garlic chicken because they enjoy having it with rice. You can have less sauce if you reduce the amount of water used in this recipe to half. This dish is one of those that you can make your own easy, but as always, I would like you to try it as per the recipe mentioned below and then add your touch to it!

    If you like the chicken with sauce or gravy, then have a look at my Smothered Chicken recipe, but if you prefer an Asian touch, go ahead and give my Chicken Manchurian and General Tso's Chicken a try.

    Let’s make dinner!

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    Honey Garlic Chicken Recipe

    Make dinner interesting by cooking this delight. Tender chicken breast or thighs in honey garlic sauce. Your family will ask for it every week!
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    Course: Main Course
    Cuisine: Asian
    Keyword: Honey garlic chicken
    Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes
    Cook Time: 15 minutes minutes
    Total Time: 25 minutes minutes
    Servings: 3 people
    Calories: 420kcal
    Author: Muna

    Ingredients

    • 450 gm skinless chicken cut into cubes
    • ¼ teaspoon salt
    • ½ teaspoon black pepper
    • ¼ teaspoon red chili flakes optional
    • ½ cup all-purpose flour to dust the chicken
    • 3 garlic cloves minced
    • 2 tablespoon butter
    • 2 tablespoon oil
    • 4 tablespoon of low sodium soy sauce
    • 2 tablespoon white vinegar
    • ¼ cup honey
    • ¾ cup water

    Instructions

    • Season the chicken with salt and black pepper. Dust the chicken with flour.
    • In a hot pan add the butter and oil. Add the chicken and cook until light brown patches appear.
    • Add the garlic, soy sauce, and vinegar and stir the chicken while on medium high.
    • Add the honey and stir for two minutes.
    • Add the water and cook until the honey garlic sauce is thick and the chicken is thoroughly cooked.
    • Serve immediately on plain rice or with bread.

    Nutrition

    Calories: 420kcal
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    Head shot of Honey Garlic Chicken with chopstick on the side. #chickenrecipe #dinneridea #chicken
    Honey Garlic Chicken. Tender chicken breast or thighs smothered in honey garlic sauce, best served with plain rice. #honeygarlicsauce #sauce #asianrecipe #chicken #chickenrecipe
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    1. Shibani

      July 22, 2018 at 8:55 pm

      Your recipes are always great and will definitely try it.. I am sure.., my boys will love this..

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      • munatycooking

        July 22, 2018 at 10:54 pm

        Thanks, Shibani, I hope you and your family enjoy as much as my family did 🙂

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        • Kira

          August 17, 2020 at 9:06 pm

          That sauce looks amazing!

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    2. KANKANA

      August 02, 2018 at 12:11 am

      I am loving the glistening on the chicken pieces.. this recipe is surely a keeper!

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    3. Jennifer Van Haitsma

      August 17, 2020 at 7:20 am

      You share the most delicious looking recipes! These looks tasty as always. My husband especially would love this.

      Reply
    4. Nyxie

      August 17, 2020 at 11:06 am

      This sounds amazing. I wish I was a decent chief so i could give this a go!

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