Brown Butter Honey Garlic Chicken
Published Feb 19, 2018
Updated Apr 25, 2024
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The best chicken recipe with pan-seared chicken thighs in a sweet and savory brown butter honey garlic sauce. This easy chicken dinner is amazing even the pickiest eaters would approve.
Honey Garlic Chicken
Everyone loves the combination of honey, garlic and chicken. Imagine a sticky sweet and savory honey garlic sauce with moist and juicy chicken cooked on skillet.
This chicken recipe is family friendly and a sure fire way to win at dinner.
Little G is hooked on honey, or all kinds of foods made with honey. I use honey to make a lot of dishes for dinner.
One of our family’s favorite is honey garlic sauce, which is absolutely amazing on all kinds of protein, especially chicken.
Other Easy Chicken Recipes:
I also love playing with brown butter. When you heat up regular butter to become brown butter, it lends a nutty scent and deeper flavors to your chicken dish and makes this honey garlic chicken recipe even better.
This dish is certainly one of the best chicken recipes ever and you can make it with chicken thighs or chicken breasts. I love chicken skin but you can always use skinless and boneless chicken.
This brown butter honey garlic chicken recipe is everything I want in chicken: meaty chicken, savory and sweet sauce that you just want to sop up to the last drop, and the garlicky aroma. The dish is very easy to make with pantry item ingredients and takes 20 minutes.
How Many Calories per Serving?
This recipe is only 481 calories per serving.
What Dishes to Serve with This Recipe?
For a wholesome meal and easy weeknight dinner, I recommend the following recipes.
Brown Butter Honey Garlic Chicken
Ingredients
- 20 oz (580g) organic (small) chicken thighs
- Salt
- Ground black pepper
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 tablespoon chopped parsley
- Lemon slices, for garnishing
Sauce:
- 4 tablespoons honey
- 1 tablespoon Apple Cider Vinegar
- 1/3 cup chicken broth
- 1/4 teaspoon salt or to taste
- 3 dashes cayenne pepper
Instructions
- Season the chicken thighs with salt and ground black pepper on both sides of the chicken. Add all the ingredients for the Sauce in a bowl, whisk and mix well. Set aside.
- Heat up a skillet (cast-iron preferred) and pan-fry the chicken thighs (skin side down). Turn the chicken over and pan fry until the skin becomes golden brown and the meat side becomes nicely browned and crispy. Set aside.
- Discard the chicken fat on the skillet. Add the butter and let melt and foam, until the butter turns light brown. Add the garlic and saute for 10 seconds. Transfer the chicken back into the skillet and then add the Sauce.
- Turn the heat to low to simmer and reduce the sauce to a thicker consistency, or until they turn sticky, golden brown, and that the chicken is cooked through. Flip the chicken over a couple of times. Turn the heat off, garnish with the parsley and lemon. Serve immediately.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
I saw this on Pinterest and decided to try it for dinner. Quick, simple and delicious. I just added a pretty salad and had dinner on the table in a very short time. Love!
Hi Lynda, so glad that you tried this brown butter honey garlic chicken recipe!
Perfection!!
Thanks Sara, you’re too sweet!
YUM! Loving this for a quick and easy dinner option for busy weeknights :)
Thanks Kelly!!
Way back in college, a professor and his wife invited us to his house for this very meal and it was scrumptious! I’ve been wondering ever since then how to replicate but never came too close. Can’t wait to try!!
Hi Laura, awesome. I think you will love this brown butter honey garlic chicken!
I am sold! The lady who made it gave me this link to your site, and i already have it copies down to make tomorrow! You are my new best friend!
That’s awesome, thanks, I am sure you will love my recipes!