Honey-mustard curry chicken

Yeah… two curry dishes for me in less than a 1 year period… I’ve officially doubled my quota. But.. this chicken is actually pretty dang good, doesn’t take long to make, and it’s versatile….

First thing, preheat the oven to 350… then trim 4 chicken breasts, and cut them into 3/4” – 1” slices…Put the slices into a shallow pan and start on the sauce.

The sauce is super easy as well…

6 TBSP of butter (3/4 of a stick or so…)

1/2 Cup of Honey…

1/4 cup of mustard…. note.. for this batch, I used “special” mustard… so, there are only a few people I know that can make this recipe with the same mustard… for everyone else, use 1/8 cup brown mustard, 1/8 cup yellow mustard… or… you can mix and match according to what you have and what you like… I was thinking of using part brown mustard, part Dijon…

Finally, add 1 TSP Curry powder and 1 TSP salt…. I went a bit light on the salt, and we tossed in 1/2 TSP of Cayenne pepper to give it a little kick..

Toss everything in a small saucepan… and it looks…

well… it looks disgusting… but, after things melt and distribute a little more evenly….

and it starts to look more appetizing….

Now, the oven is preheated.. the sauce is made… the chicken is trimmed and chunked….  pour the sauce over the chicken and toss it in the oven.

Now, depending on how accurate your oven is… and the size of your chicken chunks… cooking times will vary…I checked the chicken at about 18 minutes, and it was juicy and mostly done… so, it came out of the oven, the oven went to broil, and it went back in for about 2-3 minutes to get the top of the chicken a little crispy and bake the sauce on.

Voila. It’s really that simple…. sauce takes maybe 5 minutes… trimming and cutting the chicken up takes 5 minutes… during that 10 minutes, the oven is pre-heating… then about 20-25 minutes total cook time…. so… we can almost call this a half hour meal.

We served the chicken with some white rice and Virginia made kale with carrots, onions and bacon..

For dessert, we cut up some of the brioche from earlier this week and topped it with some apple butter that my sister made….

I’ve got another project in the works as well… it’s in the fridge right now.. but I’ll be putting the finishing touches on it tomorrow… so, expect another update soon…