Honey Dijon Chicken

"Try it, you're going to love it! It just doesn't get any easier than this. Five minutes of prep work, 30 minutes of cooking time, and you have a fantastic meal. The original recipe states that it makes enough sauce for 4 chicken breasts, but I've found that it can easily be stretched to serve with at least 6 decent-size chicken breasts."
 
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Ready In:
35mins
Ingredients:
5
Yields:
4 chicken breasts
Serves:
4
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ingredients

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directions

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  • Lightly spray the bottom and sides of a 10-inch casserole dish (or any baking pan large enough to hold the chicken breasts). Place the chicken breasts in the coated baking pan.
  • With a wooden spoon, mix the mustard, honey, apricot preserves, and ginger in a small mixing bowl until well blended. Brush (or spoon) the mustard mixture over the tops of the chicken breasts. Bake the chicken, uncovered, for 30-45 minutes (depending on thickness of the breasts).
  • After 15 minutes of baking turn over each chicken breast, spoon sauce over them, and continue baking for the remaining 15 minutes, or until breasts are thoroughly cooked.
  • Transfer the chicken breasts to individual plates. Spoon the sauce over each chicken breast serving.
  • (For my kids, I like to put their portion of the sauce into a small condiment cup so they can use it as a dipping sauce. What can I say -- it's a kid thing.).

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Reviews

  1. Very very tasty dinner. Easy to mix up and I had dinner on the table in just over a half hour. Can't beat that!
     
  2. I love it when an easy recipe, with mostly pantry-type ingredients, is tasty. For so few ingredients, this chicken is very flavorful! As a personal preference, next time I will add less Dijon and more honey & apricot preserves. I really loved the apricot flavor shining through! I will put this in my make again file. :) Merci Beaucoup! ~Made for ZWT5 - Epicurean Queens~
     
  3. Ever have an evening where you want a delicious meal but have no inclination to prepare it? If so, then this is perfect with stock ingredients, no advance planning or equipment involved and fabulous results. I really liked the way the zing of the Dijon played off the preserves and honey. And the ginger adds just the right pepper bite to the chicken. Thanks NorthwestGal.
     
  4. We loved this. And I will tell you why. This afternoon after running-around I had 8 chicken thighs to be used. We had a couple of neighboring folks over, so I thought to myself, "Hey! This is a great time to make an array of 2 different types of chicken!" Four baked with seasoning, the other four using this wonderful recipe, Recipe #318320 and placed them on a large platter with fresh tomato (sliced) and fresh spinach sprinkled around for color. Well, all I can say...is this; there were *NO* pieces of this Recipe #318320 left. All gone! I followed this recipe exactly, except as I mentioned I used chicken thighs (as this was a big sale item!) ~ the ginger really added a delightful touch, coupled with the apricot preserves, mustard, and honey. I saved a bit (1/4 cup or so) of this dressing and doused the top, and served atop of a large tomato with fresh spinach beneath. Easy, easy, easy. Delicious, delicious! Thanks, NorthwestGal! Made for *Everyday is a Holiday* tag game. February 2009.
     
  5. Yum! This was super simple and delish. I only made 2 chicken breasts but all of the sauce and it was just right for us. Thanks for sharing this nice recipe. Made for For Your Consideration tag.
     
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Tweaks

  1. I thougth this was pretty good. I used orange marmalade instead of apricot preserves. Nice for something different, but not great.
     

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