Honey Garlic Chicken

INGREDIENTS

• 3 chicken breasts, boneless and skinless, cut into 1 inch pieces
• 1 cup flour
• 1/2 cup cornstarch
• salt and pepper to taste
• sesame seeds, *optional
• fresh chopped parsley, *optional

For Honey Garlic Sauce

• ¼ cup honey
• ¼ cup soy sauce
• 3 garlic cloves, minced
• 1 tbsp Sriracha sauce *optional, more to taste
• salt and pepper to taste

 

DIRECTIONS

1. Heat a pan up with oil to fry chicken pieces. Start at a medium- low temperature.
2. Add the flour, s&p and cornstarch to a shallow plate and coat chicken.
3. Season chicken with salt and pepper. 
4. Add chicken to the flour mixture and toss to make sure each piece is fully coated .
5. Dust off any excess flour and fry chicken pieces until golden brown. 
6. In a small container, add all the sauce ingredients and get ready to pour over hot chicken. * You may also pour all sauce ingredients in a sauce pan and bring to bowl before pouring over chicken.   
7. Pour sauce over chicken and toss so that the chicken pieces are fully coated. * left over sauce can be used for dipping. 
   
   
   
   
8. Garnish with sesame seeds and parsley * optional.
   
9. Serve over rice and/or veggies.

Cheesy Hasselback Chicken

I love when I create a dinner that looks much more difficult than it truly is. You can make anything "hasselback" by cutting slits into whatever you want to stuff i.e chicken, pork, potatoes and etc and stuffing them with whatever you want!  How amazing is that? I've done it before  with potatoes here. This recipe came from a lazy dinner night that I knew my husband was starving after coming home from work. Okay, okay you caught me he's like that majority of the time but I had to step my game up with the dinners. Haidyn loved the ham and of course the cheese and Waymon devoured every crumb on his plate. Do you need anymore proof that hasselbacking is the way of life? I don't think so!

INGREDIENTS:

• 4 thick boneless, skinless chicken breasts ( I used 2 to demonstrate)
• 4-6 oz. deli-sliced ham, cut into strips ( I used ham , but you could use turkey if you prefer.)
• 4 slices cheese, cut into strips (any kind of cheese you'd like, we used cheddar.)
•  salt, pepper and parsely

 

DIRECTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Slice slits about 1 incheapart in chicken breasts almost all the way through. Leave the bottom surface connected.
   
   
   
   
3.  Place strips of ham and cheese into each slit.
   
   
   
   
4. Sprinkle chicken with salt,pepper to taste and parsley . 
   
   
   
5. Place on a greased baking sheet/dish of your choice .
6. Bake  for 20 minutes, or until chicken is cooked through.  
   
   

   

   served with mix veggies and mash potatoes