Honey chicken with rice {easy recipe} (2024)

A delicious sweet honey chicken with rice. A world kitchen recipe that is on the table in just 15 minutes. With a garlic honey sauce that's made of just 5 ingredients! And you probably already have got them at home. This is the kind of recipe you will make on busy weekdays. Because with this recipe you can prepare quickly a tasty yet simple meal.

An easy and delicious recipe

I like recipes that are simple and quick to prepare. And I love to try all kinds of food. I make pasta, stews, Dutch mashes, and Asian foods. And this sweet garlic honey chicken is a recipe that just fits in really well.

You can serve this with a delicious salad, cucumbers and some rice. But what's also nice is to double the amount of sauce, and cook green beans or stir-fry vegetables in the sauce. And that doesn't take a lot of time, but makes the veggies super tasty! This honey chicken recipe is just so simple and flavorful.

• Butter, red onion, cherry tomatoes, salt, and garlic. The spices add extra flavor to the chicken for this honey chicken with rice recipe.
• Chicken breast filet. The protein part of this recipe. I used chicken, but you can also opt for beef (steak) or pork (pork loin or Gammon steak). And if you want to serve a vegetarian dish use tofu sliced in cubes.
• Honey: Adds the sweet flour to the honey soy sauce.
• Wine vinegar: This recipe is sweet and sour. You can also use rice vinegar or normal vinegar.
• Soy sauce: Use light or dark soy sauce. Both will do the trick. Make sure you don't use sweet soy sauce.
• Curry powder. To enhance the flavor of your sauce.
• Mango and cashew nuts. Garnish this honey chicken dinner with cubes of mango and cashews. A great flavor accent.

🔪 How to prepare honey chicken with rice?

Step 1 preparation time. Start with slicing and measuring the ingredients. Cut 1 red onion and squeeze 3 cloves of garlic. Quarter the cherry tomatoes and slice the mango into small cubes. Take your chicken breast filet and slice cubes of ½ x ½ inch (1 x 1 cm).

Step 2 coat the chicken with flour. Put the chicken cubes in a bowl and add flour. Make sure every cube is coated with flour. That way the outside of the chicken becomes moist and your sauce thickens a bit (without the risk of lumps).

Step 3 bake the chicken and spices. Melt 2 tablespoons butter in a pan and bake the chicken filet until it's done and golden brown (about 5 minutes). Slide everything to one side of the pan and melt another tablespoon of butter in the free part of the pan. Add the onion and garlic and bake for a minute.

Step 4 prepare a honey soy sauce and mix everything. Add cherry tomatoes, salt, soy sauce, honey, wine vinegar, and curry powder, and bring to a boil. Lower the heat and simmer for 5 minutes. Mix the chicken through the sauce. Put some rice on a plate and add the sweet honey chicken. Garnish with cubes of mango and cashew nuts.

• Make sure to cut and weigh everything before you start. That way you can grab everything and nothing burns in the process.
• If you've got some crystallized honey this is the perfect recipe to use it. The sugars in the honey become liquid again because you warm it.
• In this recipe you use wine vinegar, but you could also use rice vinegar or normal vinegar.
• You can spice it up by adding Sriracha or a finely chopped pepper to the garlic honey sauce.
• This is also very delicious with fresh pineapple cubes. Bake them in the sauce for even more flavor.
• Do you want to prepare a gluten-free honey chicken? Use cornflour instead of normal flour (and use a gluten-free soy sauce).

• You can store honey chicken with rice for up to 3 days in the refrigerator. Make sure it's covered or stored in an airtight container.
• You can freeze your honey chicken dinner. Freeze your honey chicken with sauce separate from the rice. The honey chicken can be stored in an airtight container for up to two months. The rice can be stored in an airtight container for up to three months. Thaw everything in the refrigerator.

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