Honey Walnut Chicken is a recipe in which the chicken is simmered in a thick honey sauce and it gets instantly delicious. The honey makes the chicken sweet but it gets spicy because of the other seasonings and therefore gets a combo of sweet and spicy.
Serving Walnut Chicken as the main course dish in your formal dinner makes the dinner table look fancier. As the Walnuts sprinkled over your chicken are good enough to give it a pleasant flavor.
Making the Honey Sauce
In a bowl, the honey is drizzled and then this honey is stirred with the soy sauce. Pour some of the sesame oil into this mixture. Making this Honey sauce is such a soothing step in this recipe. Stir well and at the end add the apple cider vinegar into it.
Then the mixture is poured into a cooking pan for simmering. After enough simmering the sauce gets thickened and then you can pour it over your chicken.
Crushing the Walnuts
Walnuts are chopped first and then added to a food processor to crush them. These are crushed properly and then sprinkled over the cooking chicken. The chicken gets chunks of crispiness because of the fried walnuts.
Serving the chicken
The chicken is used for topping the plain rice and then served at the dining table. Moreover, it is served as a main course with tortillas as tortillas are the best thing to complement your meals.
Make sure to top your chicken with green onions so that the platter will look more beautiful and appetizing. The pop of green color because of the green onions is so worth it.
It is usually served at dinners and at lunches but I only prefer to serve it at dinner to exaggerate the beauty of the formal or informal dining table.
INGREDIENTS
- 1/4 tablespoon black pepper
- 1 lb Chicken Breast
- 1 tablespoon Rice Vinegar
- 1 tablespoon Soy Sauce
- 1/2 Cup Honey
- 1/2 Cup Walnuts
- 1/2 tablespoon Salt
- 1/2 cup diced Green Onion
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 2 cloves minced garlic
Steps to make the Honey Walnut Chicken Recipe
- Bring the chicken and wash it under the tap running water. Then you must slice the chicken into smaller pieces of suitable size.
- Bring the seasonings including the salt and pepper and shower them over the chicken. Make sure you have already dried the chicken using paper towels.
- Pour some oil into a pan and put the chicken into it for frying. Don’t add too much oil.
- The chicken should be fried for just a few minutes as you don’t have to cook it so thoroughly.
- Take the chicken out of the cooking pot once cooked. Then in the same pot with the oil left in it, you have to proceed with the rest of the recipe.
- Bring a bowl and pour some honey into it. Then bring the rice vinegar and pour it into the honey. Make the addition of minced garlic and drop the sesame oil in the end.
- Do not forget to add soy sauce. Stir all these ingredients well with each other.
- Now in a cooking pan, put all the chicken and drizzle the honey mixture over this half-cooked chicken. Let the chicken simmer in this thick honey sauce to absorb and develop the yummiest flavors.
- Let the sauce-drizzled chicken cook for half an hour while the pot is covered with the lid so we can call it the covered simmering.
- Then you have to wait for it so that you have plenty of time to get your walnuts prepared for the chicken.
- Use your food processor to grind the walnuts and in this way, they will be crushed properly.
- After the required half an hour, you must take off the lid and show the crushed walnuts over the simmered chicken.
- Now lower the heat and cook for 10 more minutes after removing the lid. The uncovered cooking will let the sauce thicken and your mixture will get into the required shape.
- Your Honey Walnut Chicken is ready to serve. Use it as a side dish on your cooked rice and for the salad, you must serve the finely diced green onions with it.
Conclusion
I am so obsessed with this Honey chicken. The walnuts and the Honey sauce both take the chicken to another level of lusciousness. Moreover, the seasonings give it a spicy flavor and every time I have this chicken, I fall in love with it all over again.
Honey Walnut Chicken Really deserves to be on your go-to list as the whole Family either the elders or the adults and even kids everyone likes it at my place and would love it at your house. All you have to do is to give some attention and make the exact recipe for this chicken.
FAQs?
How to make the honey sauce?
To make the honey sauce you must take a cooking pan and put the mixture of honey, soy sauce, sesame oil, and apple cider vinegar into the pan. It will be simmered and get thickened then you can drizzle it over half-fried chicken.
Do we roast the Walnuts before sprinkling them?
Yes, you can surely roast the walnuts before or after crushing them and then sprinkle them over the chicken. But in this recipe, we have not roasted the walnuts.
How to prevent the chicken from drying out?
To prevent the chicken mixture from drying out, you can pour a little oil or add a splash of water. Moreover, you can even drizzle more honey into it.
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Honey Walnut Chicken Recipe
Ingredients
- 1/4 tablespoon black pepper
- 1 lb Chicken Breast
- 1 tablespoon Rice Vinegar
- 1 tablespoon Soy Sauce
- 1/2 Cup Honey
- 1/2 Cup Walnuts
- 1/2 tablespoon Salt
- 1/2 cup diced Green Onion
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 2 cloves minced garlic
Instructions
- Bring the chicken and wash it under the tap running water. Then you must slice the chicken into smaller pieces of suitable size.
- Bring the seasonings including the salt and pepper and shower them over the chicken. Make sure you have already dried the chicken using paper towels.
- Pour some oil into a pan and put the chicken into it for frying. Don’t add too much oil.
- The chicken should be fried for just a few minutes as you don't have to cook it so thoroughly.
- Take the chicken out of the cooking pot once cooked. Then in the same pot with the oil left in it, you have to proceed with the rest of the recipe.
- Bring a bowl and pour some honey into it. Then bring the rice vinegar and pour it into the honey. Make the addition of minced garlic and drop the sesame oil in the end.
- Do not forget to add soy sauce. Stir all these ingredients well with each other.
- Now in a cooking pan, put all the chicken and drizzle the honey mixture over this half-cooked chicken. Let the chicken simmer in this thick honey sauce to absorb and develop the yummiest flavors.
- Let the sauce-drizzled chicken cook for half an hour while the pot is covered with the lid so we can call it the covered simmering.
- Then you have to wait for it so that you have plenty of time to get your walnuts prepared for the chicken.
- Use your food processor to grind the walnuts and in this way, they will be crushed properly.
- After the required half an hour, you must take off the lid and show the crushed walnuts over the simmered chicken.
- Now lower the heat and cook for 10 more minutes after removing the lid. The uncovered cooking will let the sauce thicken and your mixture will get into the required shape.
- Your Honey Walnut Chicken is ready to serve. Use it as a side dish on your cooked rice and for the salad, you must serve the finely diced green onions with it.
