AÂ deliciously Creamy Honey Mustard Chicken with crispy bacon pieces will become your new favourite dinner — WITHÂ dairy free options!
Sweet and creamy honey mustard sauce that takes LESS than 5 minutes to pull together, with minimal ingredients and maximum taste. Yesssss, I’m ALL about that simple quick flavour. It’s an unconditional love type situation I have with honey mustard. But then there’s THIS creamy honey mustard that compares to nothing else. Just staring at these pictures all over again…..well, oh em gee.
Since you guys have been loving this Honey Mustard Chicken, Avocado + Bacon Salad, mostly writing in to tell me that salad hating husbands have now been converted to salad loving men (you’re welcome, by the way), I know in my heart of food hearts that it’s the combination of chicken → bacon → honey mustard → that has helped the transformations. So, I thought, what would happen if I turned that into the ultimate of comfort foods → throwing in a creamy sauce → for an epic dinner recipe that would rock our worlds and our senses?
I took this recipe, made a few changes, and developed the best creamy honey mustard chicken I’ve ever tried. IN my life time. Most recipes I’ve tried in the past call for 1 teaspoon of honey and 1 teaspoon of mustard in a whole entire pan of cream (in my world, that’s about the size of 2 pin-heads going into a haystack). What is that amount supposed to do? My taste buds are forever searching around for HONEY and MUSTARD flavours, coming up with only an infinitesimal trace. Ugh.
Not this sauce, friends. This sauce will have you weak at the knees, drinking it straight from the pan and good luck to anyone else that’s too slow not to come up with that idea first because now there’s none left. Type of thing.
This. This is what happened ↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑.
How To Make Creamy Honey Mustard Chicken With Crispy Bacon
- First, we coat the chicken in said sauce. I’ve used both breasts AND thighs in this recipe. Both work. You can use either. Again, you’re welcome.
- While the chicken is sitting in the most perfect honey mustard creation, the bacon is fried until crispy, leaving behind it’s flavourful oil to fry the chicken in. Chicken fried in bacon fat. Mmmmmm. Once again, you’re welcome.
- You CAN leave the bacon in the pan at this point and fry the chicken WITH the bacon….however, I transfer it out to sear the chicken on their own, because I don’t like the smoky flavour the bacon adds into the creamy sauce in the end. Bacon fat? Yes. Bacon pieces? No.
THEN, the sauce goes in. For this recipe and for the sake of the best, creamiest flavour, I pour in â…“ cup of light or reduced fat cream. Now, you can replace this with milk of your choice (skim, 2% fat OR full fat — even almond milk works too since we are thickening it at the end with some cornstarch). BUT I personally love the small addition of cream to add that unmistakeable creamy flavour.
THEN, top with the crispy bacon pieces and HOHMYGOSH eat it straight out of the pan because HELLO NO PATIENCE!
I mean. DO YOU SEE THE THICK CREAMY HONEY MUSTARD IN THERE? ↑ GAH!
Check out these other mustard chicken recipes:
Honey Mustard Chicken Stir Fry
Creamy Honey Mustard Chicken With Crispy Bacon
Ingredients
- â…“ cup honey
- 3 tablespoons whole grain mustard level tablespoons
- 1 ½ tablespoons garlic minced, or 3-4 cloves crushed garlic
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 pinch salt to season
- 5 skinless boneless chicken breasts or chicken thighs
- ½ cup diced bacon trimmed of rind and fat, I used 4 small bacon rashers
- â…“ cup cream light or reduced fat, see notes for substitution options.
- 1 cup milk skim, 2% or full fat - almond milk may be used for a dairy free option
- 1 teaspoon cornstarch corn flour mixed with 1 tablespoon water
- 2 tablespoon fresh parsley chopped
Instructions
- In a large, shallow dish, combine the honey, mustard, garlic, oil and salt to taste (not too much salt if serving with bacon as the bacon will add a salty flavour when served). Coat chicken evenly in the sauce. Set aside.
- Heat a nonstick pan (or skillet) over medium heat. Fry bacon until crispy; transfer to a plate. To the same pan, sear chicken fillets on each side in the oil left over from the bacon until just beginning to brown (about 3 minutes per side -- not completely cooked through as we will finish them in the sauce).
- Add any remaining honey mustard sauce into the pan along with the cream and milk. Bring to a simmer while stirring occasionally to mix the favours through the sauce (about 3 minutes), until the chicken is cooked through. Transfer the chicken to a warm plate.
- Pour the cornstarch mixture into the centre of the pan, mixing it through the sauce until it thickens. Place chicken back into the pan; coat with the sauce. Top with the bacon and garnish with parsley.
- Serve over steamed / roasted vegetables for lower cal options. Also great with pasta, rice or mashed potatoes!
Notes
Nutritional information is based per serve, including cream.
Nutrition
More Honey Mustard Recipes?
Delicious Honey Mustard Salmon In Foil
Crispy Honey Mustard Chicken & Potatoes (One Pan)
Honey Mustard Chicken, Avocado + Bacon Salad
Kat says
I made this tonight and it turned out fantastic! I did have to cook my chicken longer as it was still very cold in the middle from being frozen, but I did a mixture of tenting so it would retain more heat and then adding it back to the sauce & basting to finish. This was so good and SO easy to make! Definitely going on our favorite’s list! Even my picky kiddos gobbled it up!
Carisa says
I’ve never cooked with mustard and honey…. gotta say it was delicious. Did some things different…. I didn’t have whole grain mustard so I just used regular yellow mustard. I followed the instructions up until after searing the chicken. I removed the chicken and added remaining honey mustard along with the cream and milk, but then I put the chicken in a 9X13 and poured the mustard mixture over chicken and baked it at 375 for 30 min. I thicken the sauce as instructed. it came out so juicy and yummy.