The Best Baked Honey Soy Chicken recipe ever! This recipe is so easy and delicious! This will be the chicken recipe you make over and over again! Use this for salads, on top of rice, in tacos, lettuce wraps or spring rolls!
We all have our go-to recipes that we make for ourselves and our families, right?! My husband and kids are big meat eaters. . beef, chicken, pork, you name it, they will eat it. When I’m busy, I will usually bake chicken (chicken thigh meat, breast, wings). It’s super simple but doesn’t always have a lot of flavor.
The Best Baked Honey Soy Chicken
This recipe also works with skin-on, bone-in chicken!
What I did with this Baked Honey Soy Chicken recipe:
First, I seasoned my chicken breasts with salt and pepper and then I seared them in a skillet for a few minutes on each side. This helps to lock in some moisture so your chicken is still juicy, even after baking it. Then, I made an incredible glaze and poured the glaze over the chicken. Next, I baked the chicken, uncovered, for about 25 minutes.
Now, this is the important part: after 25 minutes, remove your chicken from the oven, change the temp on your oven to broil, and tilt your pan, get all of the delicious glaze, and spoon it over your chicken. Then, hit the chicken under the broiler for 2 minutes. Watch your chicken to ensure it doesn’t burn.
Then, you can garnish with sesame seeds and scallions and serve!
The Best Baked Honey Soy Chicken
This is seriously the most flavorful chicken ever. And it works with chicken thigh meat too. Serve this chicken with rice, in tacos, in lettuce wraps, chop it up and make a buddha bowl or a salad, whatever you want! The possibilities are endless! Let me know if you try this Baked Honey Soy Chicken!
Baked Honey Soy Chicken
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup low-sodium soy sauce
- 3 tablespoons honey
- 2 to 3 cloves garlic minced
- Juice of 1 lime
- 1 hefty teaspoon sriracha
- 2 tablespoons sesame oil
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch to thicken
- 1 lb. boneless skinless chicken breasts or chicken thigh meat (you can also use bone-in, skin on chicken)
- salt and pepper
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- Sesame seeds for garnish
- Finely diced scallions for garnish
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. Prepare the glaze: In a medium bowl, whisk together the soy sauce, honey, garlic, lime juice, Sriracha, sesame oil, and cornstarch. Set aside.
- Generously season your chicken with salt and pepper, on both sides. Using a cast iron skillet (or any ovenproof skillet), over medium high heat, sear the chicken until golden, for about 4 minutes. Then, flip the chicken and sear/cook the other side.
- Pour the glaze over the chicken and bake, uncovered, for about 25 minutes, or until no longer pink and cooked through. After 25 minutes, remove your chicken from the oven, change the temp on your oven to the broil setting, and tilt your pan to get all of the delicious glaze, and spoon it over your chicken. Repeat until the chicken is nicely coated with the glaze and pan drippings. Place the chicken back into the oven under the broiler for 2 minutes. Watch your chicken to ensure it doesn't burn. Remove from oven.
- Garnish with sesame seeds and scallions and enjoy!
Recipe adapted from Delish.com
Or, try these Spicy Asian Chicken Spring Rolls!
Go-to recipes are the best! I have a few that I make regularly, and they never seem to disappoint! This honey soy chicken looks wonderful, Alice! I love the flavor and how easy it is. Definitely a winning chicken dinner! 🙂
Simply perfect 🙂
Sounds delicious and I am going to make it…tonight! Can I get nutritional content? Watching my fat and sodium especially. Thank you!
Hi Marsha, I don’t know the nutritional content .. sorry! I would think a 1/4 cup of low sodium soy sauce would be ok?
I want to stuff my face with this!!
Love how easy and delicious this looks Alice! I’m totally drooling!
These are some of my favorite flavors to pair with chicken!
That glaze is perfect, and I bet it’s so flavorful!
This glaze sounds just incredible! Love the addition of the honey!
I can’t get enough of good chicken recipes! There is a recipe I make once in a while that is very similar to yours, but instead of honey I use maple syrup. I’ll have to try your version!
Your pictures are gorgeous!
Cheers!
Seriously yum, this chicken looks so sticky delicious!
This is the best chicken recipe that we have tried!!!! Absolutely delicious!!! The whole family helped cook, and everyone cleaned their plates! (2 yr to 35 yr)
Hi May! This makes me so happy!!! Hooray!
I made this recipe for a family lunch when my mother threw a tantrum and yelled, “Why don’t YOU make lunch then!”
I said, “Ok,” and made this recipe, which I paired with wild rice and roasted green beans.
Mom, who declared from the start, “I DON’T WANT ANY ANYWAY!”, then had to watch while the entire family fell over themselves for second helpings and raved endlessly about the glaze. My one brother actually went back into the kitchen to scrape more glaze out of the pan, claiming “It would be a crime to waste it!” My Dad, who generally thinks chicken is the food of the plebs, had multiple servings and also asked for extra rice just so he could pour more of the glaze over it. “I just wanted a small lunch,” he said, “but I ended up having a big lunch because it was just so AWFULLY good.”
Thanks for this recipe!
It’s literally the most satisfying meal I’ve ever made.
😀 😀 😀
oh my goodness, thank you for this comment!!! Makes me SO happy!!! and I’m so glad that your family enjoyed!!!!
I’m late to the party, and I have no idea how I found this site and recipe, but we really, really liked it. It’ll be a go-to recipe for us, I think, because I generally have all of the ingredients on hand. We have some leftovers, and I think I’ll dice the chicken and add it to a “bowl” of some sort with brown rice.
Next time, I think I’ll serve it with brown rice since the sauce is so good. Tonight, I served it with steamed broccoli.
Hi Laurie! I’m so happy you enjoyed!!