Jill Can Cook: Honey Garlic Chicken

I'd been eyeing this recipe every time I breezed past it on my Pinterest board. It just looked so delicious and sticky and yummy. So, when the kids were quietly playing one evening and not hanging all over me or screaming, I decided to make this for us for dinner. I'm telling you right now though, whatever I did to this, it did not come out looking like the pictures I'd seen. Luckily, the flavor was all there!

Honey Garlic Chicken

Adapted from Damn Delicious

Ingredients

 

• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon dried thyme
• 1 teaspoon dried oregano
• 1/2 teaspoon paprika
• 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
• 1 pound boneless, skinless chicken breasts,
• salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
• 2 large eggs, beaten
For the honey garlic sauce
• 1/2 cup honey, or more, to taste
• 4 cloves garlic, minced
• 2 tablespoons soy sauce
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch

Instructions

1. 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.
2. Heat vegetable oil in a large skillet over medium high heat.
3. Cut chicken  into strips lengthwise.
4. In a large bowl, combine flour, thyme, oregano, paprika, and cayenne pepper.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. Serve immediately with honey garlic sauce.

 

Part of the reason I picked this recipe to begin with is because I love fried chicken. I followed the recipe as far as the seasoning was concerned, but you could season the chicken differently and it probably wouldn't  make much of a difference as far as flavor. So, if you have an "Old Faithful" way of making fried chicken, go ahead and try it!

 

All the seasonings and flour in my bowl.

 

Quinn was dying to help so I let her mix the eggs. She was in kid heaven!

 

My chicken cutting skills.

 

I ended up with so much chicken that I had 3 batches to cook!

 

And on to the sauce. I know that what ended up happening was my fault, so when you make this, do not do what I did! (I'll tell you what I did after a few pics)

 

At this point, everything is going swimmingly.

 

 

I added in the cornstarch/water mixture

 

Then for whatever reason, I forgot to take the sauce off the heat. In fact, I kept it on so long that it reduced down into a REALLY thick sauce. Like I mentioned before, the flavor was all there, but it was too thick to drizzle over the massive amount of chicken that I made.

 

 

So, I just served it in a little dish as a dipping sauce.

In fact, what's pictured here constitutes half of what I was left with as far as the sauce was concerned.

 

Joe, the kids, and I all liked it. And maybe I'd have the desire to make it again had I not royally screwed it up this time.

 

Although, cost-wise, the sauce ends up being a little more expensive than buying a bottle of sauce, or making other kinds of sauces from scratch. So, it only gets a B from me.