Hot Honey Chicken Bowls Recipe

• servings: 4 servings
• active time: 20 minutes
• total time: 40 minutes

Ingredients

1 ½ lb chicken thighs (cut into bite-sized pieces)

½ cup buttermilk (see notes)

½ teaspoon salt

1 cup panko (see notes)

¼ cup whole wheat flour (can sub all-purpose flour)

1 tablespoon EACH: paprika and Italian seasoning

Cooking spray oil

½ cup honey

1 teaspoon sriracha

¼ cup mayonnaise

3 cups cooked rice

3 cups coleslaw (see notes)

Sweet pickles

Directions

marinate chicken

Place the chicken pieces, buttermilk, and salt into a large bowl and mix to combine. Set aside for 20 minutes (or up to 8 hours) to marinate.

bread chicken

Preheat your oven to 425 degrees Fahrenheit. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Add the panko, flour, paprika, and Italian seasoning to a shallow bowl and mix well. Working with a few pieces of chicken at a time, add them to the bowl with the panko and coat them well.

bake chicken

Transfer the breaded chicken to the baking sheet, spray the tops with cooking oil, and then bake the chicken for 25 minutes.

make hot honey

While the chicken is baking, make the hot honey by mixing the honey and Sriracha in a small bowl. Put the mayonnaise into another small bowl and add 2 tablespoons of the hot honey.

coat chicken with honey

When the chicken is crispy and cooked through, remove it from the oven and brush the top with the remaining hot honey.

assemble and serve

To assemble the bowls, add rice, coleslaw, sweet pickles, and hot honey chicken to a dinner bowl and then drizzle with the hot honey mayo.

Nutrition

• Serving Size: 1 bowl
• Calories: 621 kcal
• Total Fat: 10 g
• Saturated Fat: 2 g
• Unsaturated Fat: 6 g
• Trans Fat: 0.03 g
• Cholesterol: 102 mg
• Sodium: 652 mg
• Total Carbohydrate: 108 g
• Dietary Fiber: 4 g
• Total Sugars: 57 g
• Protein: 28 g