Roasted Chicken With Thyme and Honey Cream

Submitted by Leslie

"An easy and delicious way to serve chicken! Cooking chicken with the skin and bones takes a little longer but gives a more juicy and tasty result. From Egypt Cooking Today. Hope you enjoy!"

 

• Ready In: 1hr 5mins
• Ingredients: 9
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 4 chicken breasts (bone-in, skin-on)
• 2.46 ml salt, divided
• 1.23 ml pepper, divided
• 1.23 ml dried thyme, divided
• 14.79 ml butter
• 1 small onion, finely chopped
• 59.14 ml dry white wine or 0 15 ml wine vinegar
• 236.59 ml 35% real whipping cream
• 14.79 ml liquid honey

directions

1. Preheat oven to 375°F (190°C).
2. Sprinkle chicken breasts with half each of the salt, pepper and thyme.
3. In a skillet, melt butter over medium-high heat.
4. In batches as necessary, brown chicken breasts, skin side down, for 2 to 3 minutes.
5. Turn and brown other side for 2 to 3 minutes.
6. Transfer to baking dish skin side up and set skillet aside, reserving any butter and brown bits.
7. Roast chicken in oven for about 35 minutes or until well browned.
8. Meanwhile, return skillet to medium heat and heat for 30 seconds.
9. Add onion and remaining salt, pepper and thyme and cook, stirring constantly, for about 3 minutes or until onion is softened.
10. Add wine and bring to a boil, scraping up any brown bits stuck to pan.
11. Stir in cream and honey and boil gently, stirring often, for about 5 minutes or until sauce is thickened.
12. Pour sauce over chicken in dish and roast for about 10 minutes longer or until chicken is no longer pink inside and sauce is bubbling.

Reviews

[NorthwestGal]

This was OMG Great! The honey-cream sauce was just the right blend of sweet yet so creamy and light. And the chicken was moist and flavorful. I will make this again and again (and again and again), and I will not change a thing, except perhaps increase the amount of honey-cream sauce so we have extra to top a side of rice, as someone had suggested. This will surely be included at the top of my Favorite Recipes Tried in 2011. Thank you for sharing your recipe, ~Leslie~.

 

[gailanng]

Cooking is like a reconnaissance mission: plan your route, execute the deal and flee for your life from dishwashing. The pots/pans this took were so worthy of the complaining. It goes straight to my Best of 2010 cookbook.

 

[alligirl]

AMAZING! This recipe sounded good, but, it surpassed my expectations! We REALLY enjoyed it. Between all the 'yum's' and 'ummmmmmmm's', we talked about the thyme being understated, about the honey giving a just right touch, and about how dang good it was...I did use boneless breasts and fresh thyme, as it is what I had on hand. This came together fairly quickly and I will certainly make it for guests (and myself!) I will put this recipe in my "Must Make Again!' cookbook! Thanks so much for sharing, ~Leslie~. Made for ZWT.

 

[Shari2]

Excellent recipe! I used 8 chicken thighs and doubled the sauce part. I served it with wild rice and green beans, DH and I were using the sauce on top of everything. The recipe is easy to make and full of great flavor. The amount of honey is right on for this recipe. I will be making this again and again. Thanks for posting it.

 

[Baby Kato]

What can I say that hasn't already been said about this incredible recipe. It is the bomb. The chicken is tender, juicy and moist and the sauce is too die for...so good. The sauce is light, creamy, slightly sweet and so very flavorful, I used the wine vinegar option and couldn't have been happier. My dh was in taste heaven. Thanks so much for sharing this wonderful recipe, which I will make again and again. I have place this treasure in My Favorites Cookbook for 2013. Kudos to you Leslie.