Honey Soy Chicken Breasts

The sweet smell of all-day, marinated chicken baking in the oven is delectable to the senses. 

This simple, melt in your mouth, Honey Soy Chicken is perfect for your easy week night menu and truly doesn't require a lot of attention or clean up (YEAH!!!) 

Simple.Sweet.Soy

Ingredients 
4 chicken breasts 
1/4 cup honey 
1/3 cup light soy sauce 
1/2 tsp ground pepper 
4 garlic cloves, minced 
1tbs ginger, grated (I omitted this because I didn't have it) 

Directions:
Whisk together the honey, soy sauce, pepper, garlic, and ginger in a small bowl. 
Place chicken breasts in a zip lock bag and pour honey-soy mixture over the chicken.
Give it some good shakes and place in the fridge to marinate a few hours/over night--pretty much until your ready to cook it. 

Preheat oven 375 
Place marinated chicken on a foil-lined baking sheet (easy clean up, told you!) and brush some of the sauce over the chicken. 
Bake for 45 min. 
Take the extra sauce and place it in a small sauce pan on LOW heat to simmer. 
Brush sauce on chicken every 10 minutes until chicken is fully cooked through. 

 Serve with some Fried Rice and/or veggies. 

ENJOY!!!!!

Slow Cooker Honey-Glazed Garlic Chicken

Mouthful of a title I know, but it did make your mouth water so keep reading and maybe no one will notice the drool. 

This was my FIRST crock pot/slow cooker recipe! 
Now, since I moved out to the mid west it was almost a taboo to say that sentence since its a staple cooking machine out here. 
So I knew it was time to break it out!

Thanks to one of my new favorite websites: myfoodfridge.com I was able to find this recipe at 6 am in the morning (I had been struggling for a few days with not having an ingredient or two and didn't want to run to the store; this website solved my dilemma) and had it cooking all day, allowing the house to smell like honey glazed deliciousness.

It was enjoyed on top of brown rice with side of mixed veggies. 

It's SUPER EASY so have no fear...

Ingredients:

4 chicken breasts (they can be frozen)
1/2 cup reduced sodium soy sauce
1/2 cup natural ketchup
1/2 cup honey 
3 minced garlic cloves


Directions:

Place chicken at bottom of slow cooker/crock pot. Mix soy sauce, ketchup, honey, and garlic in a small bowl. Pour over chicken and cook on low for 6-8 hours or high 3-4. I found it was done at or before 6 hours ( I mean when I pushed on the chicken with a fork it just fell apart:See picture below). So I turned it to warm until dinner time!

 Serve over rice and spoon extra sauce from pot onto chicken. 

ENJOY!!!!