Difficulty: medium

Baked Honey Mustard Chicken

Chicken breasts baked in a honey mustard sauce, served with rice or mashed potato — an easy lunch or dinner that tastes like more effort than it took. The sauce uses Remia Honey Mustard Dressing, one of the Remia products we supply across the Maldives. Sweet and savoury in good proportion, it is equally at home dressing salads or thinned into a dip. Serving size: 2-3

Prep Time
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Cook Time
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Yield
4 Servings
Baked Honey Mustard Chicken — photograph by lonumedhu.com

Ingredients List

  • 2 large boneless chicken breasts
  • ½ tsp salt
  • ½ tsp ground black pepper
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • ½ cup Remia Honey Mustard Dressing
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • ½ tbsp lemon juice
  • 1 tsp minced garlic
  • ½ tsp chilli powder
  • ½ tsp dried oregano
  • ¼ tsp salt
  • Topping (optional)
  • 2 tsp roughly chopped parsley leaves

Step-by-Step Method

  1. 1

    Defrost 2 large boneless chicken breasts and make shallow diagonal cuts along the top. Then season with ½ tsp salt and ½ tsp ground black pepper.

  2. 2

    Then heat up 1 tbsp olive oil in a pan for 30 seconds on medium heat. Place in the seasoned chicken and cook for 3 to 4 minutes on each side, until a light brown crust forms. It will be raw on the inside at this point, but that’s okay because we will be baking soon. Turn off the heat and set aside.

  3. 3

    In a large bowl, mix together ½ cup Remia Honey Mustard Dressing, 1 tbsp olive oil, ½ tbsp lemon juice, 1 tsp minced garlic, ½ tsp chilli powder, ½ tsp dried oregano and ¼ tsp salt. You can use a spoon for this.

  4. 4

    Then add the seared chicken in and coat well with the sauce. Place the chicken in a large baking tray that is at least 1 inch deep (we used a 7.5-inch long 5.5-inch-wide tray). Pour any excess sauce over the chicken as well.

  5. 5

    Preheat the oven for 10 minutes at 200 degrees Celsius. Then place the tray in the middle rack and bake for 35 minutes or until golden in colour. At the 25-minute mark, using a spoon, scoop the sauce in the tray and add some on top of each chicken piece.

  6. 6

    Then turn down the temperature to 190 degrees Celsius and bake for another 10 minutes.

  7. 7

    Once it is done, remove the tray from the oven and let the chicken rest in the sauce for 10 minutes before cutting in and serving. Optionally, you can top the chicken with 2 tsp roughly chopped parsley leaves.