June 3rd, 2009

Honey Chicken

This is another recipe from The Kid-Friendly ADHD & Autism Cookbook. It’s so simple, it hardly deserves to be called a recipe. Yet it’s the simple things we seem to have forgotten how to do in this modern age, isn’t it?

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There are just two ingredients! The first: honey. Smear a bit on the bottom of a baking dish. In theory this means you won’t need to grease it, but in my experience that’s a lie. Spray it with canola oil, then smear the honey on. You will thank me when it’s time to do the dishes.

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Ingredient number two: bone-in chicken thighs, skin side down. It’s preferable to leave the skins on, because they provide lots of fatty acids that are crucial for brain development and function. If you feel like you have to watch your kids’ fat intake, that’s a big sign that you’re feeding them all the wrong things to begin with. I have known vegetarians who loudly cursed the unhealthiness of meat, just before they downed a bowl full of pasta soaked in cream sauce with a big hunk of cheese bread on the side. (If I rolled my eyes any harder, I’d tear a ligament and my opthalmologist would be very upset with me.) Organic, unprocessed, uninjected meat contains the good fats, and the body needs them.

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Brush more honey over the tops of the chicken. Lots more, because honey is delicious.

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Cover tightly with foil, and bake in a 350 degree oven for 90 minutes.

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My house smells so good right now.

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Let them cool a bit, and serve as-is with any number of GFCF sides. Or, pull the meat off the bone and use it in any other recipe that calls for cooked chicken. It is so tender, it will practically fall off on its own.

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Personally, I like to pull it off the bone and use it in a salad with one of my favorite GFCF dressings. [As always, manufacturers can change their formulas at any time. Don’t rely on me, always check your labels.] I’ve become enamored with large, complicated salads recently. Bacon, cranberries, almonds–anything goes. I tell myself that I like the chicken in here because the flavors are complimentary, honey on the chicken and a honey mustard dressing… but really, I’d eat this chicken with just about anything.

Happy Eating!

Honey Chicken

4 chicken thighs, skin on
about 1/4 cup honey

 

2 comments to Honey Chicken

  • xoxoxoBruce

    Salads are great for cleaning the fridge of leftovers too good to toss but not enough left for a meal. You no longer have to worry about cooking too much… like when there’s 3 pieces of bacon left in a package, just cook ’em up.

  • GFCF Mama

    Okay… So, mine did not come out like the photo. 🙁 I think it’s because my grocery store only carried boneless, skinless chicken thighs… So the honey didn’t have that nice layer of fat to settle into and brown/crisp up. Also, the baking dish filled with tons of water that must have drained from the chicken. Any suggestions??? Still delicious and very tender, just not what I had anticipated.

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