Cold Weather Comfort Food: Honey Garlic Chicken
By
Andy Anderson !
@ThePretentiousWichitaChef
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Ah, I love Autumn/Winter… so many comfort foods to create, and so little time to make them.
Honey chicken is not so much about the chicken as it is about the sauce. The traditional ingredients in a honey garlic chicken sauce are soy, ketchup, and honey in equal amounts. I thought that would mix that up a bit and play around with the spices.
What I came up with was an awesome sauce, and tasty, flavorful chicken.
So, you ready… Let’s get into the kitchen.
Honey chicken is not so much about the chicken as it is about the sauce. The traditional ingredients in a honey garlic chicken sauce are soy, ketchup, and honey in equal amounts. I thought that would mix that up a bit and play around with the spices.
What I came up with was an awesome sauce, and tasty, flavorful chicken.
So, you ready… Let’s get into the kitchen.
Rating:
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Serves:
4
Prep:
30 Min
Cook:
6 Hr
Method:
Slow Cooker Crock Pot
Ingredients
- 2 Tbsp
- grapeseed oil
- 2 medium
- tomatoes, blanched, peeled, and puréed
- 1/2 medium
- yellow onion, chopped
- 4 clove
- garlic cloves, minced
- 1 tsp
- chili powder
- 1/2 tsp
- paprika
- 1 Tbsp
- dried parsley
- 1/ tsp
- dried oregano
- 1 pinch
- cayenne pepper, or to taste
- 1 Tbsp
- tomato paste
- 1 Tbsp
- brown sugar
- 1/4 c
- cider vinegar
- 1 Tbsp
- tomato sauce
- 1/2 c
- honey
- 1/4 c
- tamari
- 4 large
- boneless, skinless chicken thighs
PLAN/PURCHASE
How to Make Cold Weather Comfort Food: Honey Garlic Chicken
- 1PREP/PREPARE
- 2Gather your ingredients.
- 3Add the oil to a saucepan over medium heat.
- 4When the oil begins to shimmer, add the onions, and garlic to the saucepan.
Add a pinch of salt, and cook the onions and garlic until softened, and just beginning to turn golden, about 6 to 8 minutes. - 5Add the dry spices (chili powder, paprika, parsley, cayenne, and oregano), and cook until the spices become fragrant, about 1 to 2 minutes.
- 6Add the remaining ingredients (pureed tomatoes, tomato sauce, tomato paste, brown sugar, cider vinegar, honey, and tamari), and then reduce the heat to low.
- 7Stir to incorporate all the ingredients, and then allow to simmer for 5 minutes.
- 8Place the chicken parts in the bottom of your slow cooker.
- 9Chef’s Note: I tried this dish with skin on/bone in – skin off/bone in, and skin off/bone out… The skin imparts a bit of grease to the sauce and increases the cooking time. Removing the skin and the bone, left the chicken a bit too wimpy for me. Skin off/bone in, gave me the best taste and presentation.
- 10Pour the sauce on top.
- 11Cook on low for 6 hours.
- 12PLATE/PRESENT
- 13Place the chicken on a plate with some long-grained white rice, drizzle the chicken with the yummy sauce, and add a sprinkle of toasted sesame seeds. Enjoy.
- 14Keep the faith, and keep cooking.
