Are you looking for an easy, delicious weeknight dinner that isn't your typical bland meal? Well, look no further! This baked honey ginger chicken is sticky and sweet and takes less than one hour to make, making it the perfect weeknight meal. With just a few simple ingredients, you can quickly prepare a tasty, flavorful meal! Your whole family will love this honey ginger chicken recipe.
Tempt Your Taste Buds with This Sticky Sweet Honey Ginger Chicken Dinner
Baked Honey Ginger Chicken is a delicious, sticky chicken dish on the table in no time. An easy recipe and, therefore, perfect for an easy weeknight meal. After marinating, which you can do the night before, it only needs 22 minutes in the oven, and then it's ready.
Thanks to the combination of sweet honey, salty soy sauce, and fresh orange juice, this tender chicken from the oven is an absolute treat! Serve it with rice and vegetables, and you have a delicious meal.
Spoil your guests or family with this easy comfort food recipe.
Are you looking for other tasty chicken recipes? This page full of Chicken recipes has a lot of inspiration such as this Italian chicken casserole, a delicious sushi bowl with Sriracha chicken or this chicken and rice salad.
What do you need for Honey Ginger Soy Baked Chicken?
To prepare this Baked Honey Ginger Chicken, you need the following ingredients. You can find the correct amounts in the recipe card at the bottom of the blog:
Ingredients Chicken and Marinade
- Oil - Use vegetable oil, such as sunflower, avocado, or olive oil, for the marinade.
- Sea Salt - Sprinkle the chicken with sea salt for even more flavor. Coarse sea salt is super tasty.
- Garlic - Extra flavor. Raw garlic is spicy, slightly sweet, and aromatic.
- Ginger - Ginger is spicy, sweet, fresh, and spicy at the same time. It is often used in Asian cuisine. Use fresh ginger root. If you can't gain weight on organic ginger, remove the skin with a vegetable peeler.
- Chicken breasts - For this recipe, I used chicken breasts. But chicken breast fillets or boneless chicken thighs are, of course, also possible.
Ingredients Ginger Honey Sauce
- Soy sauce - Use Japanese or light soy sauce (available at the Asian supermarket). These are salty soy sauces.
- Honey - Provides a slightly spicy sweetness.
- Ginger syrup - For a sweet taste to dishes and is delicious in sauces (and dressings). It is a bit softer and sweeter compared to fresh ginger.
- Orange juice - Gives a fruity, fresh citrus flavor to the sauce.
How to prepare Ginger and Honey Chicken (Oven Baked)
You can find a printable recipe with a detailed description at the bottom of this blog.
- Mix the oil, salt, fresh garlic, and ginger in a small bowl. Mix this in a. large bowl with the chicken fillet cubes and leave to marinate in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes. You can do this step the night before.
- Mix the soy sauce, orange juice, honey, and ginger syrup in a saucepan until it comes to a boil.
- Divide the marinated chicken pieces in a single layer over the oven dish and bake in the oven at 450 °F (ca. 232 °C) for 12 minutes.
- Pour the delicious sauce with honey and ginger on top of the chicken and return the baking dish to the oven. Bake for another 10 minutes until golden brown.
Delicious with: white rice or brown rice and vegetables. With this great recipe, steamed broccoli, green beans, or a delightful salad are my favorite vegetables.
Garnish with sesame seeds and finely chopped spring onions (green onions or scallions).
Tips, Substitutions, and Variations
- Also delicious, add pineapple and fry it with the chicken.
- Put some oil in the pan and briefly fry some cashew nuts. Sprinkle the honey ginger chicken with the nuts.
- Extra vegetables? Add some pepper strips to the chicken with sauce and let it roast in the oven.
- Spicy: add a tablespoon of sweet chili sauce to the ginger honey sauce.
- Drizzle with sesame oil for an intense flavor.
Ginger often stays good for a week at room temperature before it softens. It will keep longer in the refrigerator, up to three weeks. But if you freeze it, you can keep it for up to six months. TIP: Peel the ginger and cut it into 0.5-inch (1 cm) slices before freezing. This way, you always have a portion of ginger on hand.
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📖 Recipe
Equipment
- A conventional oven is used. When using a convection oven (with air fan) decrease the temperature with 30 °F / 20 °C
- oven dish
- saucepan
Ingredients
Marinate
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1 teaspoon sea salt coarse
- 1 clove garlic squeezed
- 1 inch fresh ginger fresh, peeled and grated
- ½ pound chicken breast diced into 0.5 x 0.5 inch cubes
Sauce
- 1 tablespoon Japanese soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons orange juice
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 2 tablespoons ginger syrup
Garnish (Optional)
- scallions green onions, sliced ins trips
- sesame seeds
Ingredients you need per step are listed below the step in Italic
Instructions
- Mix a marinade of the oil, salt, garlic, and ginger in a small bowl.2 tablespoons vegetable oil, 1 teaspoon sea salt, 1 clove garlic, 1 inch fresh ginger
- Mix the chicken breast with the marinade and let it marinate in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.½ pound chicken breast
- Preheat the oven to
450 °F or 410 °F. - Place the marinated chicken cubes in an oven dish and bake for 12 minutes.
- Meanwhile, heat the soy sauce, orange juice, ginger syrup, and honey in a saucepan until it comes to a boil. Simmer for a couple of minutes.1 tablespoon Japanese soy sauce, 2 tablespoons orange juice, 2 tablespoons honey, 2 tablespoons ginger syrup
- Pour the sauce over the chicken fillet, put it back in the hot oven, and bake for another 10 minutes.
- Optional: Garnish the chicken with sesame seeds and chopped spring onion.scallions, sesame seeds
Notes
- Also delicious, add pineapple and fry it with the chicken.
- Put some oil in the pan and briefly fry some cashew nuts. Sprinkle the honey ginger chicken with the nuts.
- Extra vegetables? Add some pepper strips to the chicken with sauce and let it roast in the oven.
- Spicy: add a tablespoon of sweet chili sauce to the ginger honey sauce.
- Drizzle with sesame oil for an intense flavor.
- Refrigerator: You can marinate the chicken the night before. So it takes very little time to make.
- Freezer: Put the marinade and chicken in a freezer bag and freeze. Let thaw, and you can immediately proceed to bake in the oven.
Let it cool quickly to room temperature.
- Refrigerator: Cover and refrigerate for up to 2 days.
- Freezer: Store in a freezer box in the freezer up to 2 months. Let thaw in the refrigerator.
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