Hot Honey Chicken
Sweet heat on crispy chicken — hot honey chicken bites, a hot honey chicken sandwich, chicken tenders, wings, and chicken and waffles for busy weeknights.
★ dinner
dinnerIngredients
- 1 # Boneless skinless chicken thighs
- 2 cups Milk
- 2 Eggs
- 1 tsp Salt
- 1 tsp Pepper
- 1 tsp Garlic powder
- 1 tsp Paprika
- 1 cup Panko
- 2 tbsp Butter
- 1/3 Honey
- 2 tsp Cayenne pepper
- 1 tbsp SAMBAL (optional)
- 1/4 cup finely chopped Parsley
- 1.5 cups Janine rice (cooked)
- 1.5 cups Broccoli (steamed)
Instructions
- 1Brine chicken for a couple hours or overnight by combining milk, spices, and eggs with 1# chicken thighs chopped
- 2Drain liquid from brine. Add 1 cup of panko with 1 tsp salt and coat chicken thighs
- 3Spray some olive oil spray over the chicken. Add chicken thighs to air fryer tray and bake at 375 for 20 minutes flipping halfway through
- 4In a small pan add butter, honey, and cayenne and Melt together to form a sauce. Let reduce for 2 minutes on low heat. Mix SAMBAL in
- 5Once chicken is done sprinkle parsley on top.
- 6For meal prep add jasmine rice, broccoli, and chicken into a container (3) for the week or you can eat immediately!
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Hot honey works because it hits two things at once: the sticky sweetness kids go for and the slow burn the grown-ups want. Drizzle it over anything fried or baked crisp and a plain chicken dinner suddenly feels like something you'd order out.
Cooks on Pepper reach for this collection when they want dinner to feel like a treat without a lot of fuss — a Friday night sandwich, a Sunday batch of chicken bites to eat on all week, or tenders the kids will actually finish.
Every recipe here is chicken with hot honey somewhere on it: hot honey chicken bites for meal prep, a hot honey chicken sandwich, Hot Honey Chicken Tenders, baked crunchy hot honey chicken made with cornflakes, hot honey chicken wings, chicken and waffles, and a sheet pan of hot honey chicken and veggies.
Quick Tips
- 1
Soak the chicken first
Let thighs or tenders sit in buttermilk or milk with a little hot sauce for at least 30 minutes, or overnight if you have time. It seasons the meat and helps the coating stick.
- 2
Keep the oil steady
Fry at 350°F and cook in batches of 4 or 5 pieces. Crowding the pan drops the temperature and gives you soggy breading instead of crunch.
- 3
Warm the honey
Heat hot honey for 20 to 30 seconds before drizzling so it runs thin and coats every piece instead of sitting in one sticky puddle.
- 4
Drizzle at the table
Sauce the chicken right before serving, or serve the honey on the side. Coated chicken softens within about 10 minutes of sitting.
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