Creamy Honey Mustard Chicken With Crispy Bacon (2024)

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Adeliciously Creamy Honey Mustard Chicken with crispy bacon pieces will become your new favourite dinner — WITHdairy free options!

Sweet and creamy honey mustard sauce that takes LESSthan 5 minutes to pull together, with minimal ingredients and maximum taste. Yesssss, I’m ALL about that simple quickflavour. 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→ throwingin a creamy sauce→ for an epic dinner recipe that would rockour 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 teaspoonof 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 budsare forever searching around for HONEY and MUSTARD flavours, coming up with only aninfinitesimal 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 comeup with that idea first because now there’s none left. Type of thing.

This. This is what happened↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑.

How To MakeCreamy Honey Mustard Chicken With Crispy Bacon

First, we coatthe 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 mustardcreation, the bacon is fried until crispy, leaving behind it’s flavourfuloil 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’tlike the smoky flavour the bacon adds intothe 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.

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!AN ORIGIANL CAFE DELITES RECIPE

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Prep: 10 minutes mins

Cook: 15 minutes mins

Total: 25 minutes mins

Serves: 5

Ingredients

1/3 cup honey
3 level tablespoons whole grain mustard
1 1/2 tablespoons minced garlic, (or 3-4 cloves crushed garlic)
1 tablespoon olive oil
Salt to season
5 skinless and boneless chicken breasts (or chicken thighs)
1/2 cup diced bacon, trimmed of rind and fat (I used 4 small bacon rashers)
1/3 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 chopped fresh parsley

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

*Replace the cream with milk of your choice. Just make sure you LOVE the flavour of the milk you are using as it will impact the flavour of your sauce! I recommend skim, 2% or full fat. You can also use almond milk for a dairy free option.
Nutritional information is based per serve, including cream.

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Kat says
October 18, 2022 at 12:41 pm

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!
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