Thursday, April 29, 2010

In a time crunch for dinner?


I discovered this SUPER SIMPLE and fast chicken recipe online a couple weeks ago and am making it for the 2nd time already. Our whole family loved it! It's a Honey Baked Chicken dish and you probably have all the ingredients already at home (as long as you keep chicken in your freezer). The lengthiest part of prepping this dish is defrosting the chicken in the microwave! HA!

Side note: we buy our hormone-free frozen chicken breasts from Costco. With raising all girls, I can't stomach feeding them meat chocked full of hormones...no wonder girls these days are "becoming women" at 9 years old! Sheesh! I was 16!

Anyway, you will need:

1 pound of chicken
1/4 cup of butter/margarine
1/4 cup of honey
1/8 cup of mustard (just from the bottle in your fridge)
1/2 teaspoon of curry
1 teaspoon of salt

Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees. Cut up chicken into "tender" size pieces and sprinkle with some salt to liking. Arrange flat in a casserole dish. Mix melted butter, honey, mustard, curry, and salt in a bowl. Pour mixture over chicken. Bake for 30 minutes or until chicken is cooked through. It will look a lot like the picture if you cook it for longer (and the honey starts carmelizing a bit--yummo!)

SO EASY! This dish is easily and quickly paired with baked potato wedges (lightly drizzle with olive oil, garlic salt and maybe a little Italian seasoning and you can throw them in the oven with the chicken). With 5 minutes to go on the chicken, you can microwave one of those steamfresh bags of frozen broccoli, and BAM! A whole meal.

Your tastebuds can thank me later. ;)

2 comments:

  1. we have that same recipe, i made it the other day with asparagus and rice (i think?) on the side. YUM.

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