🍯🧄🍄 Honey Garlic Chicken with Mushrooms
A cozy, savory-sweet dish where juicy chicken and tender mushrooms are coated in a glossy honey garlic sauce. It’s quick, flavorful, and great with rice or noodles.
🧾 Ingredients
- 500g chicken (breast or thigh, sliced or bite-sized)
- 1½ cups mushrooms (sliced)
- 2 tbsp oil or butter
- Salt & black pepper
🍯 Sauce
- 3 tbsp honey
- 3–4 cloves garlic (minced)
- 2 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tbsp vinegar or lemon juice
- 1 tsp cornstarch + 2 tbsp water (for thickening)
- Optional: chili flakes for heat
👩🍳 Method
1. Cook the chicken
- Heat oil in a pan.
- Season chicken with salt and pepper.
- Cook until golden and fully done. Remove and set aside.
2. Sauté mushrooms
- In the same pan, add a bit more butter or oil if needed.
- Cook mushrooms until browned and slightly caramelized.
3. Make the sauce
- Add garlic and cook briefly (don’t burn).
- Stir in honey, soy sauce, and vinegar.
- Let it simmer.
4. Combine
- Return chicken to the pan.
- Add cornstarch slurry.
- Toss everything until sauce thickens and coats evenly.
🍽️ Serving ideas
- With steamed rice 🍚
- With noodles 🍜
- With stir-fried vegetables
💡 Tips
- Don’t overcrowd mushrooms—they need space to brown
- Adjust sweetness vs tang by tweaking honey/vinegar
- Add a splash of water if sauce gets too thick
⚡ Quick 3-step version
- Cook chicken
- Cook mushrooms
- Toss in honey garlic sauce
If you want, I can give you a creamy garlic mushroom version, a spicy Asian-style upgrade, or a low-carb keto-friendly variation.
