Honey Garlic Chicken

Honey garlic chicken is gonna become your new favorite chicken stir fry. It is sweet and sticky and saucy and so much better than takeout because it’s real chicken and it’s not just loaded with breading. This is so good, a family favorite.

Why You’ll Love This

You’ll love that you don’t even have to season the chicken at this point because the sauce has plenty of flavor.

You can see how the light coating of cornstarch on the chicken helps that sauce to stick so nicely without any extra breading.

Ingredients

• Water
• Low sodium soy sauce
• Honey
• 1 tablespoon of sriracha sauce
• Minced garlic
• 2 tablespoons of cold water
• 2 tablespoons of cornstarch
• 2 to 2 and a half pounds of boneless skinless chicken breast
• Half a cup of cornstarch
• Oil
• Fresh green onion
• Sesame seeds

Our rice is hot and ready. Our chicken is hot and ready. I am ready for this taste test. I’m hot and ready. Just kidding, that didn’t come out right. I’m just hungry. Look at this, look at this. Here I am making a mess. I probably could have gotten a bigger spoon. Come to mama, sweet and saucy chicken. Look, you guys. This makes my day. Have you ever seen anything more beautiful?

Okay, here we go. Oh. Oh, the music’s starting. It’s in my head, but it’s there.

Instructions

1. In a medium sauce pan, combine water, some low sodium soy sauce, honey, and I love that this is sweetened honey.
2. I also add a tablespoon of sriracha sauce.
3. Also add some minced garlic, then set it over the stove and stir until it comes to a boil.
4. Now in a separate dish, add two tablespoons of cold water and stir in two tablespoons of cornstarch.
5. Pour your cornstarch slurry into the sauce pan and stir until it’s thickened.
6. Reduce the sauce to the lowest heat setting and let it barely simmer on the stove while you prep the chicken.
7. You’ll need two to two and a half pounds of boneless skinless chicken breast.
8. Cut those into one inch chunks.
9. Now transfer your chicken pieces to a large zip top bag and add half a cup of cornstarch.
10. Seal the bag and toss it all together until the chicken is evenly coated in starch.
11. Set a large non-stick pan over medium heat and lightly coat the bottom of the pan with oil.
12. Add the chicken in a single layer and saute for a few minutes per side or just until it’s cooked through and lightly golden.
13. Saute until the thickest piece of chicken reaches 165 degrees Fahrenheit on an instant re-thermometer.
14. Then pour the sauce over the chicken and stir until every piece is generously coated.
15. Now we’re gonna just dig into this. Get a little bit of everything on the fork.

Cooking Tips

Try to keep your chicken pieces roughly the same size for more even cooking.

I like to give the sauce an occasional stir while I’m cooking the chicken. Make sure it stays at a low simmer.

I like to use a butter guard whenever I’m frying chicken to keep my stove clean and I will link to this in the recipe notes.

Also, another time-saving tip, since you do have to cook the chicken in batches, it helps to cook the second batch in a separate skillet to make the whole process go faster.

If you want it a little spicier, just add a little bit more sriracha sauce. So add it to taste. Go crazy if you really like it spicy. My kids don’t love spicy, so I just use a tablespoon and it’s just right to add flavor. Or you can add a little bit of red pepper flakes too to make it even spicier if you really like it hot. You know, have fun with this.

Serving Suggestions

I love a steamy hot rice. And we do have a really good easy tutorial on how to make perfect fluffy white rice. It’s super simple and it’s the perfect base for this chicken is so flavorful, so saucy. It really needs something simple to go on top of.

And brown rice would be fine. Quinoa, I guess, if you wanted to do quinoa.

All right, and then garnish it with a little bit of fresh green onion. A little more, ’cause it just makes it so pretty. Look, now it looks like a salad. And then a little bit of sesame seeds to give it that little Asian charm.

I hope you guys totally love this honey garlic chicken. My family went bananas for this the first time I made it. So I made it two days in a row, okay? And nobody complained. You saw how easy peasy breezy this sauce is. It uses simple ingredients that you probably already have in your kitchen and your pantry. It has some of our favorite easy dinners. That was like the main idea of this book was to make dinner time easier for people, family friendly meals. It is jam packed with so much food inspiration. All right, come to me. Come to me. It really is something else, you guys. It’s so good. I’m gonna go eat this. Bye. Oh, oh, oh. Mm-mm, mm-mm-mm.