Description
This Honey Garlic Chicken recipe features tender boneless chicken thighs cooked in a sticky, flavorful garlic, soy, and honey sauce. Ready in just 20 minutes with minimal ingredients, it's a perfect quick and delicious dinner served over boiled rice.
Ingredients
Scale
Chicken
- 8 chicken thighs skinless and boneless
- 2 tbsp cornflour (cornstarch)
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp pepper
- 2 tbsp vegetable oil
- 1 tbsp unsalted butter
Sauce
- 4 cloves minced garlic
- 110 g (1/3 cup) honey
- 80 ml (1/3 cup) chicken stock
- 1 tbsp rice vinegar
- 1 tbsp light soy sauce
- 1 tbsp finely chopped fresh parsley
- 1/2 tsp chilli flakes
To Serve
- Boiled rice
Instructions
- Coat the chicken: Place the chicken thighs in a bowl and add the cornflour, salt, and pepper. Toss until the chicken is fully coated with the cornflour mixture.
- Heat the oil: Heat the vegetable oil in a large frying pan over high heat until hot.
- Cook the chicken: Add the chicken thighs to the pan and cook on one side until golden brown, about 4 to 5 minutes. Flip and cook for an additional 2 minutes on the other side.
- Add butter and garlic: Add the unsalted butter to the pan and let it melt. Then add the minced garlic and stir to combine. Reduce the heat to medium to prevent the garlic from burning.
- Prepare the sauce: In a bowl, mix together the honey, chicken stock, rice vinegar, and light soy sauce until combined.
- Simmer the sauce: Pour the sauce into the pan with the chicken. Increase the heat and bring it to a boil. Then lower the heat and simmer for 4 to 5 minutes until the sauce thickens and the chicken is cooked through with no pink inside.
- Finish and serve: Sprinkle chopped fresh parsley and chilli flakes over the chicken. Serve hot over boiled rice.
Notes
- For extra flavor, marinate the chicken in the cornflour, salt, and pepper mixture for 10 minutes before cooking.
- You can substitute chicken thighs with chicken breasts, but thighs remain juicier.
- Use low-sodium soy sauce to reduce salt content.
- Add more chilli flakes for extra heat if desired.
- Serve with steamed vegetables or salad for a complete meal.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 serving
- Calories: 472 kcal
- Sugar: 24 g
- Sodium: 804 mg
- Fat: 19 g
- Saturated Fat: 10 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 9 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 29 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 45 g
- Cholesterol: 223 mg
