Baked Honey Mustard Chicken With Potatoes Bacon

I love chicken recipes cooked in the oven with some sauce, like this recipe and my favourite Italian Baked Chicken and Potatoes that comes with an Italian pasta sauce. Cosy food that’s simple to prepare!

Honey Mustard Chicken

Talk about a fully loaded one pan meal! There is serious flavour going on here. A honey mustard sauce is awesome as it is. But then you add the juices from the chicken that mixes in while it bakes and it takes it up a notch. THEN it’s also got bacon mixed into it, working it’s magic flavours into the sauce while the chicken bakes to golden perfect. And add golden brown roasted potatoes….and then you have one seriously incredible one-pan meal!!

Honey Mustard Sauce for baked chicken

The hero of this recipe is the sauce, made with just a few ingredients that totally transforms once baked:

White wine – used to deglaze the pan, adds terrific extra depth of flavour to the sauce Mustard Honey Milk or cream Thyme, salt and pepper

The key ingredient in this sauce is – shock horror – mustard. It is the flavour as well as the thickener. I add honey to balance out the flavour because otherwise it is quite tart. I use white wine for the sauce, but you can substitute with chicken broth. I’ve added directions in the notes for how to do this. I recommend adding a touch of vinegar + sugar so it more closely resembles the flavour of the wine. Honestly, check out this sauce!! It’s thick and luscious and there’s PLENTY of it!!

There is one key difference in the way I make this chicken compared to other baked chicken dishes I make. The trick is for the chicken to bake to a beautiful golden brown in the same time the potatoes do. If you sear the chicken too much in the pan before baking it, then the chicken skin will brown faster than the potatoes. So for this dish, the chicken skin is only lightly browned on a low heat which allows the fat to “melt” (render out) which is discarded before baking the chicken with the sauce. People often talk about how a sauce is SO GOOD that you want to lick the plate. Well, I’ll tell you a secret….I did lick the plate. Are you horrified? Or have you gotten used to how shameless I can be? 😉 – Nagi PS I have made this Honey Mustard Chicken with other vegetables squeezed in too! Like carrots and swedes. Anything that will roast in the baking time is perfect. I don’t recommend watery vegetables though as they might ruin the sauce!!

More recipes made using Honey Mustard Sauce

Honey Mustard Chicken – chicken cooked on the stove, simmered in a honey mustard sauce Honey Mustard Drumsticks – tossed in a simple honey mustard sauce and baked until sticky Honey Mustard Salad Dressing – fantastic used with leafy salads or more hearty salads like roasted potato salad