Honey Lime Chicken
Chicken is our favorite protein; I make chicken many times a week so I am constantly developing new recipes. Two ingredients that I love most are honey and lime.
This honey lime chicken is inspired by a recipe on Eating Well, but I simplified the recipe to make it easier for you. The recipe takes only 20 minutes to make!
Moist, Juicy and Tender Chicken
This honey lime chicken recipe turned out to be a perfect 10. It’s absolutely moist, juicy, tender and utterly delicious. The honey, lime, soy sauce and garlic marinade do wonders to the chicken.
The end result is sticky sweet, savory and citrusy chicken that you will be begging for more.
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Bone-in Chicken vs. Boneless Chicken
As usual, my favorite is boneless chicken thigh (check out how to debone chicken thighs video).
You have the glossy, lacquered, perfectly charred and baked chicken skin, with the meat bursting with the chicken juice. You can also make the chicken with bone-in chicken thighs.
Whichever part of chicken you use, you can make this dish all year long: bake in the oven, outdoor on the grill, or just cook on skillet or cast-iron pan.
Skillet or Oven-Baked?
This recipe is absolutely versatile; you can choose to bake the chicken in the oven, or you can just cook it on the stove-top. I personally love oven-baked because I love crispy and charred skin, like the pictures here.
However, skillet is an easy way to cook and you don’t want to wait that long to savor this delicious chicken.
What Dishes to Serve with this Recipe?
This meal is best served with a main dish or side dishes. For a wholesome meal and easy weeknight dinner, I recommend the following recipes.
How Many Calories Per Serving?
This recipe is only 360 calories per serving.
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Honey Lime Chicken Recipe
Honey Lime Chicken - crazy delicious chicken with honey lime. The BEST chicken that you can make for your family, takes only 20 mins.
Ingredients
- 1 lb chicken thighs, deboned, skin-on
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1.5 tablespoon soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons lime juice
- 3 dashes cayenne pepper
- 1 big pinch salt
- chopped parsley
- lime wedges
Directions
- 1
Preheat the oven to 400F.
- 2
To debone the chicken thighs but keep the skin on, please refer to this video and post for the step-by-step. The skin makes this recipe extremely delicious.
- 3
Rub the minced garlic on the chicken thighs with your hands. Add honey, soy sauce, lime juice, cayenne pepper and salt to the chicken. (Double the marinade if you want it to be more "saucy"). Stir to combine well. Transfer the chicken and the honey mixture to a baking sheet lined with aluminum foil. Cover the chicken with aluminum foil to prevent burning.
- 4
Bake the chicken for 20 minutes, or until cooked. If the sauce pools at the bottom of the foil, spoon and brush the sauce over the chicken. Broil the chicken for 1 minute or until the chicken skin is charred. Remove from heat, garnish with parsley. Squeeze the lime wedges over the chicken before serving.
Recipe Notes
If you use boneless and skinless thighs or chicken breasts, please take note that your chicken will look white as there is no skin and the broil function won't char the meat and make it dark.
You may also make this recipe on a skillet or cast-iron pan on medium heat. Please make sure that you keep turning the chicken if you cook on the skillet or pan as it might get dark very quickly because the honey.
You may also grill the chicken on an outdoor grill.
Kurt
Just made this tonight. Wife and kids loved it! Great recipe and easy to make. Thank you Bee!
Rasa Malaysia
Hi Kurt, thanks for trying my honey lime chicken. Please try more recipes on my site: https://rasamalaysia.com/recipe-index-gallery/
Jess
Love honey and lime recipes and this isn’t much different to what I usually cook. I did this in a high sided pan and added lime zest and fresh mint to the mixture, I left out the soy sauce (didn’t have any) then put it in pitta bread and was delicious
Rasa Malaysia
Hi Jess, awesome please try more recipes on my site: https://rasamalaysia.com/recipe-index-gallery/
Megan
Can you make this recipe woth salmon? How would you adjust the recipe?
Rasa Malaysia
Yes you can make it with salmon, or you can try this honey garlic salmon and squirt lime juice before serving: https://rasamalaysia.com/honey-garlic-salmon/
kelly
This looks SO good! I have featured it in our article, 8 Of The Best Lime Recipes. You can check it out here if you like :) https://www.diythought.com/8-of-the-best-lime-recipes/
Lyna
So delicious! Will make it again.
Rasa Malaysia
Awesome, thanks for trying my recipe. Please try more recipes on my site, they are all delicious: https://rasamalaysia.com/recipe-index-gallery/
Hermsoven
Easy to prepare, but lacking in flavor. None of the ingredients really stand out. Cooked the chicken on a stove-top cast iron grill after about 20 minutes marination. On the plus side, the chicken was succulent and looked attractive.
Rasa Malaysia
Thanks for your feedback.
hermsoven
Hello Bee,
I doubled the marinade ingredients, quartered the bone-in thighs, and followed the 20 minute roasting with a few minutes of broiling until nicely browned. And yet, the flavors did not come through as expected, although the texture and appearance was great. Perhaps a pinch of cayenne is not enough. And it may also need additional garlic, honey and soy sauce. I will be experimenting more next time.
Nice, easy recipe. Thanks!
OMAR SRAR
This chicken looks very wet and delicious! Thank you
Melanie
Love that this is so simple and quick to make. A new family favorite!
Rasa Malaysia
Hi Melanie, that’s awesome! Thanks for trying this Honey Lime Chicken, please try out more recipes on my site: https://rasamalaysia.com/recipe-index-gallery/
Claudia
Making this, but not sure you’re aware, you show s picture of a chicken BREAST but the recipe says thighs
Rasa Malaysia
The pictures are thighs, I deboned the chicken thighs and they look like breasts.
Cheri
I made this tonight with 2 skinless chicken breasts. They were large so I baked them 5 minutes longer. Then I broiled them until charred- they are delicious! My husband agrees! I didn’t add the cayanne pepper- not our style- but followed the recipe otherwise. This was fast and easy (which I was looking for) and delightfully moist and delicious. Thank you!
Rasa Malaysia
Thanks Cheri for trying my honey lime chicken recipe! :)
Michael
Loved this recipe.