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. A cut up broccoli, cauliflower, peppers, carrots or peas for honey garlic chicken stir fry.
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A weeknight dinner doesn’t get much easier than this honey garlic chicken! It’s even faster than takeout if you take into account the time it takes to drive to the restaurant, wait for the food and then drive home again.
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Whisk together honey, light soy sauce, olive oil, and hoisin sauce in a small bowl. Set aside for later.
Cut boneless, skinless chicken breasts into pieces. Sprinkle with salt, black pepper, and garlic powder.
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.
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.
Add the minced garlic, stir and cook for two minutes.
By the way, this is our favorite frying pan. You see it in so many of my videos and blog posts. We have this size as well for making omelets.
Turn the heat down to medium. Add the sauce. Stir and cook for 3-4 minutes. Sprinkle with toasted sesame seeds and sliced green onions.
Serve over rice or noodles. My son has already asked me to make this twice in the past week! I’d say it was a huge hit with my family.
Honey Garlic Chicken Recipe Tips:
- The recipe calls for chicken breasts but chicken thighs or chicken tenderloins would work as well.
- Chicken breasts are cut into pieces in this recipe so that it cooks faster, there are more crispy bits and you get honey garlic sauce on more areas. But the chicken breasts can be left whole if you prefer but you will need to extend the cooking time depending on the thickness of the chicken breasts.
- Stir in cut up broccoli, cauliflower, peppers, carrots or peas for honey garlic chicken stir fry.
- If you want a thicker sauce, mix one tablespoon of cornstarch into two tablespoons of cold water. Stir the mixture into the sauce.
- If you want a thinner sauce, add a little water at a time until it reaches the consistency you prefer.
- To make this gluten free, use a gluten free flour or cornstarch in place of the flour or skip the flour coating and thicken the sauce with cornstarch as mentioned above. Also, be sure to use gluten free soy sauce, hoisin sauce, and sesame seeds.
- 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
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Whisk together honey, light soy sauce, olive oil, and hoisin sauce in a small bowl. Set aside for later.
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Cut boneless, skinless chicken breasts into pieces. Sprinkle with salt, black pepper, and garlic powder.
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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.
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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.
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Add the minced garlic, stir and cook for two minutes.
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Turn the heat down to medium. Add the honey garlic sauce. Stir and cook for 3-4 minutes.
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Sprinkle with toasted sesame seeds and sliced green onions.
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Tina says
Awesome!! I’ve made it twice. Once using boneless thigh and once boneless breast. Both were very good. Definitely a favorite!
Rhonda Bunn says
Another thing to try!!
Tonia says
I bought double the chicken this week so I can make a double batch next time! 🙂