By Karina 70 Comments Filed Under: Chicken

Creamy Honey Mustard Chicken With Crispy Bacon

A deliciously Creamy Honey Mustard Chicken with crispy bacon pieces will become your new favourite dinner — WITH 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 1/3 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!