A super slow too incredibly flavorful Honey Mustard Chicken recipe! Chicken breasts (or chicken thighs) are pan seared until beautifully golden brown and then they’re blanketed alongside sweetness together with savory, rich as well as creamy love mustard pan sauce.
The Best Honey Mustard Chicken
Our new favorite love mustard chicken! The hole-and-corner is the cream, doesn’t it only make everything improve?
Here nosotros function a blend of 2 types of bright mustard, a fair sum of sweet beloved, plenty of heavy cream, a squeamish rest of fresh herbs, in addition to merely enough garlic to make upward season.
It’sec the perfect combination of sweetness, savory, creamy, rich and tangy.
To complete the meal serve it with this delicious roasted vegetable blend (pictured higher up).
Or y'all could become the amazingly tardily route as well as simply serve it alongside baked carmine potatoes. Just pierce medium crimson potatoes with a fork (optionally wind inwards foil) together with bake at 400 until tender, normally near xl+ mins.
Then serve like a regular baked spud – peak them alongside butter, cheese, sour cream, and/or chives. Its a get-to side at our household as well as nosotros actually prefer them over baked russet potatoes.
Honey Mustard Chicken Recipe Ingredients
- two (12 oz) chicken breasts,* halved through the thickness, pounded even
- Salt together with freshly earth dark pepper
- one/four loving cup all-purpose flour
- one one/two Tbsp olive fossil oil, divided
- 1 Tbsp minced garlic
- 3/4 loving cup + one Tbsp low-sodium chicken broth, so more than to thin if desired
- ane ane/ii tsp minced fresh thyme
- i ane/ii Tbsp dijon mustard
- 1 1/ii Tbsp yellowish mustard
- three Tbsp beloved
- one/eight tsp cayenne pepper
- i one/2 tsp cornstarch
- ane/2 loving cup heavy cream
- ane Tbsp minced fresh parsley (optional)
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How to Make Honey Mustard Chicken
- Heat one Tbsp olive rock oil inwards a large skillet over medium-high estrus.
- Season chicken with salt as well as pepper.
- Add flour to a dish and dredge chicken in flour to coat both sides patch gently shaking excess flour off.
- Cook chicken until gilt dark-brown on bottom, almost 5 minutes, and so cook on reverse side until cooked through (165 inward center), nigh five minutes longer.
- While chicken is cooking inwards a pocket-sized mixing bowl mix dearest mustard sauce – including dijon mustard, xanthous mustard, dearest, too cayenne pepper.
- Separately brand cornstarch slurry by mixing i Tbsp chicken broth amongst cornstarch.
- Transfer cooked chicken to a plate then return skillet to medium rut. Saute garlic alongside remaining ane/two Tbsp fossil oil for nigh ten seconds.
- Carefully pour inward chicken broth and thyme, and so permit simmer until reduced past half, virtually two minutes.
- Pour in honey mustard mixture, then whisk inward cornstarch mixture.
- Let sauce make until thickened, while stirring, about thirty seconds. Pour inwards heavy cream together with allow oestrus through, most xxx seconds.
- Thin sauce with more than chicken broth if desired, flavor amongst salt in addition to pepper to taste.
- Pour whatsoever accumulated juices from plate of chicken into sauce. Serve chicken with sauce spooned over in addition to garnish alongside parsley.
Variations
- Make it alongside chicken thighs: Boneless skinless thighs tin can live used hither besides. Just use boneless skinless thighs (five thighs nigh v oz each). Cook to 165 in middle.
- Bolder mustard flavor: If yous desire a sharper more than tangy mustard flavour yous can purpose all dijon mustard (three Tbsp full).
- Use other herbs: Rosemary is a some other swell selection hither inwards home of thyme.
- Lighten it upwards: Half as well as half tin live used inwards place of cream, if doing and then purpose two 1/4 tsp cornstarch.
- Add more than season: Also add together 2 tsp lemon juice to the pan sauce.
- Make it spicier: If yous dear that chip of boot then increase the cayenne pepper to sense of taste.
Helpful Tips
- Don’t skip pounding the chicken breasts to assist fifty-fifty it’sec thickness. This volition ensure each piece cooks more evenly too you lot don’t terminate with dry out areas that are overcooked.
- Use a moderately high heat to sear the chicken as well as don’t act it around patch cooking and then y'all go a nice browned exterior. This volition equate to more than flavor.
- Careful not to over saute the garlic or it volition hand the sauce a bitter gustatory modality. You don’t desire it to chocolate-brown.
More Easy Skillet Chicken Recipes to Try
- Chicken with Garlic Herb Butter Sauce
- Chicken Marsala
- Creamy Chicken Piccata
- Lemon Butter Chicken or Lemon Pepper Chicken
- Parmesan Crusted Chicken
Creamy Honey Mustard Chicken
Chicken breasts (or chicken thighs) are pan seared until beautifully gilt chocolate-brown so they're blanketed amongst a brilliant, tangy, rich in addition to creamy dearest mustard pan sauce. Simply delicious!
Servings: four
Ingredients
Chicken
- two (12 oz) chicken breasts,* halved through the thickness, pounded even
- Salt and freshly ground dark pepper
- one/four cup all-role flour
- ane 1/ii Tbsp olive fossil oil, divided
Honey Mustard Sauce
- i one/two Tbsp dijon mustard
- i 1/ii Tbsp yellowish mustard
- three Tbsp dearest
- ane/8 tsp cayenne pepper
- 3/4 cup + one Tbsp depression-sodium chicken broth, and so more than to thin if desired
- one one/two tsp cornstarch
- 1 Tbsp minced garlic
- one i/ii tsp minced fresh thyme
- i/2 cup heavy cream
- ane Tbsp minced fresh parsley (optional)
Instructions
- Heat i Tbsp olive petroleum inwards a 12-inch skillet over medium-high heat.
- Season both sides of the chicken with salt in addition to pepper.
- Pour flour into a shallow dish and so dredge chicken inward flour to coat both sides while gently shaking excess flour off.
- Add chicken to skillet in addition to permit make until gilt chocolate-brown on bottom, most five minutes.
- Turn chicken together with let prepare until browned on opposite side as well as cooked through (165 degrees inward eye), near 5 minutes longer.
- While chicken is cooking inward a pocket-sized mixing bowl mix together dijon mustard, yellow mustard, dearest, and cayenne pepper. In a separate minor mixing bowl whisk together i Tbsp chicken broth alongside cornstarch. Set mixtures aside.
- Transfer cooked chicken to a plate and so render skillet to medium-rut. Add remaining i/ii Tbsp petroleum. Add garlic as well as saute until only deepening inward colour (not browned or it will live bitter), nigh ten seconds.
- Carefully from the side pour inward remaining iii/4 cup chicken broth (it will steam!) along amongst the thyme, so allow simmer until reduced by one-half, nearly 2 minutes.
- Pour in dear mustard mixture, and then whisk cornstarch mixture once again together with pour into skillet patch whisking.
- Let sauce fix until thickened, patch stirring, almost thirty seconds longer. Pour in heavy cream and permit heat through, nearly thirty seconds. Thin sauce alongside more chicken broth if desired, flavour alongside salt too pepper to sense of taste.
- Pour any accumulated juices from plate of chicken into sauce. Serve chicken amongst sauce spooned over too garnish with parsley.
Notes
- *Another option is to purpose 4 (half dozen oz) chicken breasts and just pound to near ane/2-inch thickness. Or use six (4 oz) chicken thighs, no halving or pounding necessary.
- For more than brilliant, fresh flavour yous tin likewise add 2 tsp lemon juice to the sauce during the concluding footstep.
- Nutrition gauge based on 1 Tbsp of the flour really sticking to the chicken.
Nutrition Facts
Creamy Honey Mustard Chicken
Amount Per Serving
Calories 422
Calories from Fat 198
% Daily Value*
Fat 22g34%
Saturated Fat 9g56%
Trans Fat 1g
Polyunsaturated Fat 2g
Monounsaturated Fat 9g
Cholesterol 150mgl%
Sodium 354mg15%
Potassium 768mg22%
Carbohydrates 19g6%
Fiber 1gfour%
Sugar 13g14%
Protein 39g78%
Vitamin A 922IUxviii%
Vitamin C 13mgxvi%
Calcium 57mghalf dozen%
Iron 2mgeleven%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
Nutrition values are estimates alone. See total disclaimer hither.