An ordinary baked chicken will become your relatives' favorite dish, if you cook it with the addition of honey. Gentle meat with a delicate smell of spices, a beautiful ruddy crust and exquisite aroma - all this will impress even a gourmet. Chicken with honey in the oven is not only suitable for a family dinner, but also becomes a welcome treat at a festive dinner. Do not deny yourself the pleasure and try to make a delicious treat according to our recipes.

Fans can be advised to make a bird in honey. You will need the following ingredients:

The carcass must be washed, remove excess moisture with paper towels, treated with salt and pepper. In a separate container, make a honey-mustard mixture, bring to a state of homogeneous mass. The resulting composition must be thoroughly rubbed into the carcass. After that, for baking, if the marinade is left, then it is poured on top.

Dish on the pan is sent to the oven, preheated to 180-200 degrees, for 50 minutes. To get an attractive crust 10 minutes before the end of cooking, you must make a few holes in the sleeve with a knife or fork.

So that it doesn’t lose juiciness with honey and mustard, you should immediately pull out the dish and put it on a serving plate.

Recipe number 2. Chicken meat in honey-lemon marinade

Chicken with honey and lemon has a spicy, sour-sweet taste. This dish is also quite simple. For cooking will require:

The carcass is dried with a towel, cut into portions. Lemon cut into slices no thicker than 3-4 mm. The pieces are put in a deep bowl, flavored with spices, coated with honey, and layed with lemon slices on top. After that, for one and a half hours, it should lie in a cool place so that it can absorb the taste and aroma of the marinade.

Over time, the meat is spread on a baking sheet, and cover everything with foil or lid. Bake the dish first at a temperature of 200 degrees for 20 minutes, and then reduce the heat to 170 and keep in the oven for the same amount of time.

Chicken with honey in the oven can be cooked not only with lemon, but also with orange. And if you choose a bee product with a dense consistency, you can make it liquid with the help of a water bath (the component will become liquid in literally 3-5 minutes).

Recipe number 3. Honey-Marinated Chicken with Potatoes

Experienced housewives will like garlic and honey cooked in a pair with potato garnish. You will need:

Meat is washed, remove excess moisture and make a small cut in the middle. Then the chicken is rubbed with spices and salt. Soy sauce is mixed with honey and garlic in a separate bowl (garlic is previously pressed under a press). The resulting mass rub the carcass. Now you need to peel the potatoes, divide each tuber into halves and impose them meat, laid out on a baking sheet. Chicken in the oven with honey and potatoes will be baked for about an hour at a temperature of 200 degrees.

To prevent the potatoes from drying during baking, brush it with vegetable oil.

Recipe number 4. Chicken with honey in the oven and apples

Chicken with apples will surely surprise gourmets. To prepare the dish, you will need the following ingredients:

Apples cut into slices, prunes and garlic finely chopped, mixed all the ingredients. The carcass is washed, dried, ripped open the belly, rubbed inside with spices and put the fruit and garlic filling. The bee product is mixed with zest and spicy herbs, the meat is treated with the mixture obtained outside. Chicken is baked for about an hour at a temperature of 180–200 degrees.

Today, you can find a large number in the network - with honey and lemon, with mustard and soy sauce, with apples and unusual spices. Do not be afraid of extravagant combinations of products and make a choice in favor of the usual methods of cooking. After all, the same chicken with honey in the oven, cooked with strict adherence to the recipe, can be your signature dish.

If you think about how to bake a chicken tasty and unusual, bake it in a sweet honey sauce. And do not be afraid of the combination of chicken and honey, these products can and should be used together. Thanks to honey, the hen acquires a crispy, delicious honey-colored crust, and its meat becomes sweeter and more tender. Such a dish can not be bought in the supermarket, it can be prepared only at home by yourself. In addition, you will not only create a culinary masterpiece with your own hands, but will also be completely confident in the freshness of the dish you have cooked, which cannot be said of the grilled chicken bought at the store. In this recipe, we will cook a delicious chicken with honey and mustard in the oven.

How to cook chicken with honey, mustard and Provencal herbs in the oven

For the preparation of this dish you can use any chicken, except, of course, the old hen, which is usually used only for broths or aspic. If you have the opportunity to purchase a broiler chicken for home breeding - great. Do not be afraid of the fact that it will have to cook longer. But the meat of such a chicken can not be compared with shop-chicken meat. Rinse the bird carcass under running water, salt it on all sides, as well as inside.



Combine honey, mustard and herbs in a bowl.



Dip the chicken sauce and leave for half an hour.



Preheat the oven. Place the chicken in a heat-resistant dish, cover it with foil and send it there.



Bake for an hour at 180 degrees, then remove the foil, and increase the temperature to 220 degrees. Make sure that your dish does not burn. Thanks to honey, the crust forms very quickly, if you do not keep track of it, it can become black instead of honey. Make an inconspicuous cut in the meat with a knife, if there is no blood, then the dish is ready. Take out, cool and help yourself. This dish is pleasant to cook, not only because it turns out extremely tasty. Even the process of its preparation brings pleasure, because honey in combination with aromatic herbs gives such an appetizing aroma that the whole family comes running to the kitchen to check what is so tasty waiting for them in the oven.

Recipe number 2. Chicken in the oven with honey and Dijon mustard

Chicken, cooked in the oven with honey and mustard, it turns out delicious, with a tender (spicy) meat and roast, crispy crust.

Products:

• chicken broiler - ½ pcs .;
• honey - ½ tbsp. l .;
• mustard - 1.2 tbsp. l .;
• salt;
• pepper;
• garlic - 1 tooth;
• apples - 3-4 pcs .;
• sour cream (mayonnaise) - 2 tbsp. l

Time: 55 minutes

Servings: 4.

Step-by-step recipe for cooking whole chicken in the oven

You can take whole chicken, ½ chicken or pieces of chicken. We also need liquid honey, mustard, garlic, ground pepper, apples, sour cream or mayonnaise. Mustard is better to take granular, as it is characterized by a milder taste.

We churn the hen on the fire, wash it. If you cook ½ of the chicken, then you need to cut the chicken along the ridge. Next, make a knife with a knife cuts. Insert garlic cloves into cuts.

Salt the chicken and sprinkle with ground black pepper from all sides.

We coat the chicken with sour cream or mayonnaise, cover food filmput in cold pickle for 4 hours

Pour some oil into a deep cast iron skillet or other baking dish. We spread the chicken in the form, bake the chicken at a temperature of +200 ° C until ready. A whole chicken is baked for more than 1 hour, and 40 minutes is enough for a small half chicken. Do not forget (during the baking of the chicken) pour it with fat from the pan.

Half an hour before readiness we spread slices of apples to the chicken.

Mix Dijon mustard with honey.

Then we grease the chicken with honey-mustard sauce.

Smearing honey and mustard chicken, put it back in the oven. 10-15 minutes is enough for the chicken to be covered with an appetizing and crisp crust.

We spread the chicken on a dish with baked apples.

Chicken with honey and mustard is one of the most simple recipes  for beginners culinary. What could be easier. Just mix honey, mustard and vegetable oil. Pour this not quite usual mixture of chicken and bake until done.

Here is the whole secret of cooking chicken with honey and mustard in a nutshell. But wait, and the flavor! The skin gets an appetizing golden-brown hue, and tender meat is soaked in sweet-spicy sauce. A recipe for chicken with honey and mustard is suitable as a quick meal, or it will decorate your table during a Sunday lunch.

Cooking chicken with honey and mustard.

Ingredients:

• Mustard 40 gr.
• Honey 40 gr.
• Vegetable oil 1 tbsp.
• Chicken thighs or legs 1 kg.
• Salt, black pepper to taste

Cooking:

1. In a medium bowl, beat mustard, honey and vegetable oil together.
2. Salt to taste.
3. Chicken salt and pepper to taste. In the baking dish put chicken thighs skin up.
4. Grease the chicken well with the mustard-honey marinade.
5. Bake in the oven for 45 minutes. Periodically water the thighs on top of the melted fat with the sauce. Meat will be juicier and more aromatic.

Sprinkle with black pepper a little before serving. Chicken with honey and mustard should be served with rice, which will absorb some of the honey-mustard sauce.

Perhaps no holiday table can do without chicken baked in the oven. Each hostess has its own subtle design tricks for this dish, which allows them to proudly place the chicken dish on the very center of the ceremonial table. And this is despite the fact that chicken is the most budget meat. It is much cheaper than pork or beef. However, not only is it not inferior to them in utility, but also vice versa, in terms of the supply of useful substances and positive effects on the organism, the chicken exceeds other types of meat.

Chicken in sour-milk sauce, chicken in mustard sauce, in wine and much more. A variety of sauces and marinades allows each time to give chicken meat a new taste. This time we will consider the peculiarity of chicken meat with honey. Agree, quite an original combination of meat with such a sweet product like honey.

Talk about the usefulness of honey can be infinite. Him beneficial features  rush, are used in traditional medicineSo, it's time to actively apply such an essential ingredient as honey in cooking.

Chicken with honey - food preparation

Chicken with honey is the most worthy decoration of a festive feast. Honey gives chicken meat an unusual sweetish taste, and also contributes to the formation of a golden brown crust, which is so beloved by millions of chicken lovers. When cooking this royal dish, you can use both a whole chicken and thighs, wings. You can cook the dish in the oven, but if you do not want to waste time on cooking, you can safely immerse the meat with the necessary ingredients in the multicooker bowl.

Honey Chicken Recipes

Recipe 1: Chicken with honey in the oven.

Perhaps the simplest dish that can be cooked is chicken in the oven. It is enough to rub the meat with your favorite spices, and for an hour to hold the chicken in the oven. We offer the recipe immediately with a side dish, so that the hostesses wouldn’t exactly wrestle with what to do with this excellent honey meat.

Ingredients Required:

Chicken - 1 - 15 kg;

Potatoes - 500 g;

Soy sauce - 2 tbsp. L .;

Honey - 2 tbsp.

Spices to taste.

Cooking method:

A well-washed chicken can be cut either in the center of the breast or left intact. We rub the meat with seasoning, you can use special kits for chicken meat, and you can try the classic set - salt with black pepper, take salt slightly, pinch, in the future we will use soy sauce.

Mix soy sauce and honey in a bowl. Ingredients must form a single consistency. Formed mixture thoroughly rub the chicken, both outside and inside.

The chicken is ready and it can be laid on a baking sheet.

Cooking potatoes. We clean, cut into the necessary bars. In a vessel of salt, pepper, add a little vegetable oil. Spread the potatoes around the meat and place the baking tray in the oven. Periodically, you can reach the chicken, and pour the steamed juice with a spoon over the potatoes.

Recipe 2: Chicken with honey and mustard

The combination of mustard and honey, that is, hot and sweet, gives the dish a rich taste and just intoxicating aroma. Nobody will refuse such a dish!

Ingredients Required:

Chicken wings - 700 g;

Mustard - 1 tbsp. L .;

Honey - 2 tbsp.

Garlic - 2 tooth .;

Vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. L .;

Soy sauce - 1 tbsp.

Cooking method:

1. Wash the chicken wings. Please note this can be any other chicken meat.

2. In a vessel, mix mustard, soy sauce, honey, vegetable oil. The resulting texture carefully rubbed pieces of meat. You can put in the fridge for an hour.

Recipe 3: Chicken with honey and apples in a slow cooker

Ingredients Required:

Chicken - 700 g;

Apples - 3 pcs .;

Honey - 3 tbsp. L .;

Carrots - 1 pc .;

Mustard - 1 tbsp. L .;

Olive oil - 50 l;

Garlic - 1 tooth .;

Apple juice - 50 ml .;

Olives - 50 g;

Onions - 2 pcs.

Cooking method:

First you need to cook meat. If it is frozen, then defrost well, cut into portions. Next, prepare the sauce. To do this, mix the mustard with honey, olive oiladd salt, chopped garlic and onions. Mix the mixture with meat and leave for 40 minutes. In a separate vessel, mix greens, olives and apple juice. The apple is cut into half rings, having previously cleared the core. Put the ingredients in the bowl. The bottom is laid with apples, which we pour a consistency of apple juice and greens. Next, put marinated meat and grated carrots.

Set the slow cooker on the "Baking" mode, and, moreover, only for 25 minutes. Then mix everything and again in the same mode for another 30 minutes.

Recipe 4: Chicken Stewed with Honey

Perhaps this recipe deserves attention. An interesting set of ingredients, apple, adjika, honey, which will significantly enrich the taste of meat.

Ingredients Required:

Chicken - 700 g;

Orange - 1 pc .;

Mustard - 1 tsp;

Apples - 2 pcs .;

Adjika - 1 tbsp. L .;

Honey - 1 tbsp.

Cooking method:

We take chicken meat, wings, legs, hips, at the discretion. Fry them in a pan. We place them in a vessel where the dish will be stewed in the future.

Making the sauce - squeezing the juice from the orange, crushing the apples, adding honey, mustard, adjika and favorite spices. All thoroughly mixed for better impregnation. Pour mixture with chicken. You can add 1 cup of water. Put the stew for 50 minutes.

Chicken with honey is distinguished by its rich and sweet taste. This wealth allows you to serve meat with any side dish. This may be potatoes, and pasta, and cereals.

If you plan to simmer the meat with honey, then immediately it is better to first boil the chicken, and only then use this meat for stewing. This allows you to preserve the usefulness of meat, as well as gives the dish a juiciness and pleasant aroma.

When cooking dishes from chicken meat you can not use exactly that part of the chicken, which is indicated in the recipe for the dish. The recipe can be applied to the whole chicken, and in the preparation of wings and chicken legs. Enjoy your meal!