Chicken breast in honey mustard sauce or chicken cooked in slices in a pan? Choose a recipe

What can impress your guests with an incredible combination of sweet and sour sauce with a touch of pungency? Try table chicken breast with mustard sauce. This dish has not only great taste, but also the appearance is no less striking.

The caramel shell, gleaming with gloss, beckons to proceed with the meal. In the photo, chicken in honey mustard sauce, of course, is attractive. But it’s much more interesting to see it in reality. In order to fully delight your gaze, smell and taste buds, we decide to prepare it. Moreover, chicken breast in honey mustard sauce can be cooked in a pan or in the oven. And this makes our task easier.

General recommendations

It will be useful to recall important points in the preparation of chicken fillet in honey-mustard sauce. Here are some of these points:

1. Before baking, poultry meat (or carcass) must be washed and dried using thick paper towels. Excess water can be an obstacle to caramelization.
2. Mustard when baking chicken breast in honey-mustard sauce is used any - from the store or cooked with your own hands. Home - more acute. In this regard, we put it a little less.
3. In order to avoid unpleasant surprises, we use only natural honey. When purchasing it at a point of sale, carefully study the composition of the product placed in the jar. Also, this ingredient for the sauce must be melted. It will penetrate the chicken pulp more easily.
4. If you wish, you can add adjika, ketchup or soy sauce to the marinade - whatever you want. You can mix any dry mix of seasonings for poultry with honey mustard sauce.
5. For homemade chicken, it is recommended to increase the cooking time by 15-20 minutes. The factory is quite enough standard 40-45 minutes.

Oven Chicken with Honey Mustard Sauce

For the recipe, you can take boneless chicken pieces. But you can also bake chicken legs, separated by a joint, or use shins, thighs, wings for this. The whole chicken carcass cooked in the oven will become the decoration of the table.

List of ingredients per 1 kilogram of chicken:

• mustard - 2 full tablespoons;
• honey - 2 tablespoons without top;
• salt - 1 teaspoon;
• odorless lean oil - 1 tablespoon;
• optionally we use spices for chicken ("Provencal herbs", suneli hops, curry).

Cooking method

1. Prepare a chicken: chop or disassemble into parts. If you only use fillets, cut into medium slices. It is allowed to take chicken breast and divide it into several parts.
2. Rinse the meat and pat dry with paper towels.
3. If the honey is thick, stir it in a fireproof dish and put the vessel in hot water. Honey will get the right consistency. Pound the prepared honey thoroughly with salt and ready mustard.
4. Marinade mixed with chicken. And leave the bird to marinate for at least thirty minutes.
5. Coat the non-stick form with lean oil. Spread chicken pieces. We send to the oven heated to 180 degrees for 40-45 minutes.

During the baking process, juice will be released from the meat. This juice, mixed with marinade, periodically pour chicken over the entire time.

Chicken breast in honey mustard sauce in a pan

Many people like this dish, cooked in a pan. In this case, it is more convenient to marinate and fry the bird fillet. Components required for the dish:

• chicken fillet (breast) - 600-800 grams;
• honey - 100 grams;
• mustard - 100 grams;
• vegetable oil - 2-3 tablespoons;
• lemon juice - 1 teaspoon;
• finely ground salt - 1 \ 2 teaspoon;
• seasonings, mustard seeds - optional.

Process technology

1. We wash the poultry meat. We remove excess moisture from the surface of the fillet. Cut the breast into medium cubes.
2. Combine part of the honey and part of the mustard in a suitable cup. Add half a teaspoon of lemon juice. Mix the marinade and slightly salt it.
3. The resulting sauce is sent to chicken pieces. Mix the ingredients well so that each piece gets a portion of mustard-honey filling.
4. Leave the meat to marinate for thirty minutes. Better for this time to put it in the refrigerator.
5. As soon as half an hour has passed, take out the prepared fillet.
6. We heat a good frying pan with deep sides and a thick bottom on the stove. Pour all the vegetable oil prescribed for the recipe into the pan.
7. We spread the chicken pieces in the sauce in the hot oil. Let's add fire. Fry the fillet for five to eight minutes. Stir it periodically so as not to burn.
8. After this time, mix the remaining products for the sauce: mustard, honey, salt and lemon juice. Pour the chicken meat into the sauce. Carefully distribute the fill over the pan and pulp. Add your favorite seasonings.
9. We cover the dishes with a lid. Reduce the fire to medium. Continue to simmer the chicken for at least ten minutes. Periodically open the lid and mix the contents of the pan.

Serve chicken in honey mustard sauce as an independent dish or with rice for a side dish.