Honey Garlic Chicken is an epic 12 minute dinner with a 5 INGREDIENT SAUCE made using pantry staples. A juicy seared chicken breast with the most incredible Honey Garlic Sauce, this is a brilliant back pocket quick dinner for busy nights to add to your Chicken Breast recipes collection!
My favourite sauce returns with Honey Garlic Chicken!
Another addition to my 15 Minute Meals and quick Chicken Breast recipes collection!
This Honey Garlic Chicken breast recipe is long overdue. The Sauce in this is a variation of my Honey Garlic Salmon which I first shared way back when I started this website.
If I were ever to do a summary of my top 5 Most Used Sauces, Honey Garlic Sauce would probably be right at the top of the list. I love it because it requires so few ingredients that are pantry staples, and when simmered with a seared protein in a skillet so it becomes all bubbly and syrupy…. oh WOW.
It’s just DA BOMB!!! ( <– Who talks like that at my age???! I do. Only in extenuating circumstances. Excitement over crazy delicious secret-weapon sauce falls under this category.😎)
Terrific quick chicken breast recipe
Though I personally have a preference for chicken thighs over chicken breast (better flavour, juicier!), I find myself putting chicken breast in my shopping trolley week after week.
Thus over the years, I’ve built up a wide variety of quick and easy chicken breast recipes – and this Honey Garlic Chicken is one of my favourite quick dinners that I find myself making over and over again.
How to make Honey Garlic Chicken
- Sprinkle chicken with salt and pepper, dust with flour (makes sauce cling to it better!)
- Sear chicken, add butter, garlic, vinegar, soy sauce, honey.
- Simmer until the sauce thickens. Turn chicken to coat in the amazing honey garlic sauce. And THAT’S IT!
It really is that crazy simple.
The chicken in this recipe is dusted with flour before searing, and while it is an optional step, I really do encourage you to do this. The flour creates a crust that the sauce can cling to, so the chicken is smothered with the sauce. If you just sear plain chicken, the sauce just sort of slips off – which is fine, you can scoop it up with each bite. But it’s even better when the sauce is clinging to the chicken!
There’s enough Honey Garlic Sauce to squidge your veggies into as well as drizzling over your rice or mopping up with a bread roll. Hope you enjoy! – Nagi x
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Honey Garlic Chicken breast recipe
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Honey Garlic Chicken Breast
Ingredients
- 500 g / 1 lb chicken breast , boneless and skinless (2 pieces)
- Salt and pepper
- 1/4 cup / 60g flour (Note 1)
- 50 g / 3.5 tbsp unsalted butter (or 2 1/2 tbsp olive oil)
- 2 garlic cloves , minced
- 1 1/2 tbsp apple cider vinegar (or white or other clear vinegar)
- 1 tbsp light soy sauce (or all purpose, Note 2)
- 1/3 cup / 90g honey (or maple syrup)
Instructions
- Cut the breasts in half horizontally to create 4 steaks in total. Sprinkle each side with salt and pepper.
- Place flour in a shallow dish. Coat chicken in flour and shake off excess.
- Melt most of the butter in a large skillet over high heat - hold back about 1 tsp for later.
- Place chicken in skillet and cook for 2 - 3 minutes until golden.
- Turn and cook the other side for 1 minute.
- Turn heat down slightly to medium high.
- Make a bit of room in the pan and add garlic and top with remaining dab of butter. Stir garlic briefly once butter melts.
- Add vinegar, soy sauce and honey. Stir / shake pan to combine. Bring sauce to simmer, then simmer for 1 minute or until slightly thickened.
- Turn chicken to coat in sauce. If the sauce gets too thick, add a touch of water and stir.
- Remove from stove immediately. Place chicken on plates and drizzle over remaining sauce.
Recipe Notes:
Nutrition Information:
Honey Garlic Chicken breast recipe originally published February 2018, post tidied up 8 September 2018 but no change to recipe (I wouldn’t dare, readers love it as it is!).
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I used normal soy sauce to make this (it was all I had), and it turned out so so good. I ate it alongside some fingerling potatoes (boiled then cut them up and got them crispy in a pan with some olive oil) and pan roasted carrots. Next time might add just a touch less of honey. Super easy and delicious, 10/10 would recommend.
Hi Nagi. Could one replace the soy sauce with tamari sauce?
Yes definitely Sasha, enjoy!
Very tasty! Kids loved it! Plates were clean. Super simple and fast to put together. Kids already rating this recipe in top 5!
And that’s the best compliment Brandyce!
WOW! I always love RecipeTin’s recipes, but Nagi outdid herself with this one! Easy, delicious, and quick! It will be hard to top this one 😍
Thanks so much Bethany ❤️
Although the sauce did not thicken, it had good flavor. Followed the exact recipe.
Can salmon be subbed for the chicken?
Sure! Try this one: https://www.recipetineats.com/honey-garlic-salmon-5-ingredients-15-minutes/
Great thanks so much!!
We liked this recipe but it took quite a while for the sauce to thicken. Maybe 20 minutes but I had doubled the sauce so maybe that’s why. Will definitely make again.
Hi Sue, yes if you double the quantity the longer it will take to reduce. I’m so glad you liked it though – N x
Do yourself a favor and make this!! The only thing I did differently was use rice vinegar because that’s all I had. I did not change or add anything else and it was so tasty!!! I get intimidated by making chicken on the stove top but the directions are spot on and precise. I didn’t fear that it was undercooked for one minute.
Thank you so much for sharing your recipe! I can now put this delicious chicken paired with jasmine rice in my rotation. Seriously, thank you!!
That’s so nice to hear Katy – thanks so much ❤️
My wife made this last night and it was fantastic. She’s not always the fastest cook but she had this meal ready in no time. The sauce is simple, but fantastic.
Wahoo, that’s great Matt!
I made this tonight and it was amazing- my husband (who hates when I make rice) cleaned his plate.
I cooked the chicken as fillets but cut it up to serve and added sesame seeds and some stir-fried onions, carrot and celery. I though the sauce was good on the chicken but it was even better on the vegetables.
Hi Mia I love your chicken recipe thanks’!!!!
I made this for dinner tonight and it was a huge hit! It’s definitely going into my dinner rotation. Thank you for the recipe!
Hey Nagi, this recipe looks delicious but i’m thinking of making it with chicken thigh instead as i find chicken breast to be a bit dry- do you think it will still work? Thanks!
Hi Mia, the chicken in this recipe is definitely not dry, if you’re finding chicken breast too dry then it’s most likely that it’s slightly over cooked. In saying that you could definitely use thigh here – you just need to pound it thin so it cooks quicker – N x
Made for my family of four with a husband and daughter who both have strong ideas about what they like. Both came back for seconds! Easy to cook and tasty.
This is SO good!! I will definitely be making this again!