Honey-Glazed Chicken

I've purposely never tried honey-glaze chicken recipes before. In general, I don't enjoy the taste of honey, so it wouldn't make sense to make an entire dinner devoted to it. However, after coming home late from work and looking for something to cook, I just happened to have all of the ingredients for this one in my cabinet. So I gave it a try.

 

While the sauce was heating up, I dipped a spoon in to try it out. It's my favorite part of cooking. I became a little worried though... I hated the taste of it. I was pretty much assuming I'd be putting on some shoes and socks and heading to the hot dog store down the street.

 

Don't be fooled though. When it all came together I was really quite happy with the meal. The honey wasn't as strong as I thought it would be, but it added a really nice taste that was different from what we were used to. I'm not sure if the soybean oil was the best choice though. Next time I make it I might skip it and see if it makes a difference.

 

 

INGREDIENTS:

3-6 pieces of chicken
1 cup flour
1 tsp Salt
2 tsp Chili powder
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 tsp soybean oil or 1 tsp soy sauce
1 tbsp curry powder
1/2 cup honey
3 tbsp butter



DIRECTIONS:

• Pour melted butter in a casserole dish. Set aside.
• Mix flour, salt, and chili powder.
• Coat chicken in mixture and place in casserole dish. Flip chicken once to coat both sides with butter.
• Bake for 15 minutes.
• While baking, use a small sauce pan to make honey-glaze.
• Mix brown sugar, soybean oil, curry powder, and honey. Heat on stovetop.
• After 15 minutes of baking, pour honey-glaze mixture over the chicken and continue to make for another 20-25 minutes.

Notes: Half-way through the baking I used a spoon to take some of the sauce that had fallen to the bottom of the casserole dish and poured it over the chicken to recoat with honey-glaze.