Cooking with Blobby

Another grim day of news bites. I can't even deal with that today.....or yesterday, as it were. 

So, let's eat our feelings, shall we? I mean, technically, I do this even when I'm not in the doldrums. 

I feel I've made a version of this in a slow cooker, but I"m a bit lazy to figure out if that is true. This is not a slow cooker post, but you know, it's only a few ingredients and it comes together somewhat quickly. 

Anyhoo, it's honey-garlic chicken. Or garlic-honey chicken?  Oddly, the green onions are covering the head of garlic in the above picture. 

Ingredients

2 chicken breasts

Flour

3-5 cloves of garlic, minced (I used five since they were small)

5 T butter (separated)

1 T - vinegar

2 T - soy sauce

5 T - honey

Salt

Pepper

Instructions

Score the breasts. ....and these things were huge. It's the last time I let Instacart pick poultry. 

Salt and pepper these suckers. 

Melt 3T of butter in a medium low pan. 

Add the chicken after you dredge it in flour and shake off the excess. 

Cook on both sides. Brown it. Brown it real good. 

These things took forever, far far too big. 

Add another 2T of butter and add in your garlic. 

Let it cook for 30-60 seconds. 

Add in your vinegar, honey and soy. 

Cook for a few minutes. Things will thicken and meld as you mix it in. 

Turn the chicken a few times in the sauce to it gets coated evenly. 

Spoon some of the sauce over the breasts. Top with the scallion greens. 

Serve up. Add more sauce if you'd like. 

I liked it. I didn't love it. I'm not a huge fan of honey. Maybe if I cut back by a tablespoon or two and added another of soy. It was a bit too sweet for me. Not sickeningly so, but I can't red pepper flake everything now, can I? 

710 liked it more than I, which was good. 

I don't know if it was the chicken, all the butter or the scoring, but I'm not sure I've had chicken as tender as this. 

The breast size (again) was too much. Neither of us finished ours, so we boxed it up the leftovers where it will be an ok lunch. 

It's easy enough, and pretty quick. I'd do it again, but make a few changes.