Honey Lemon Chicken

I don't usually do main dish recipes.  But since the theme for this week's Carnival of the Recipes is chicken, I thought I'd pull out one of my mom's favorite recipes. 

Honey Lemon Chicken

1/3 cup honey
1/4 cup lemon juice
1/2 cup strong lemon tea
1 tbsp soy sauce
flour
8-10 chicken pieces

Coat chicken with flour and lay skin-down in a baking dish.  Bake in the oven at 400° F for 30 minutes.  Steep lemon tea.  In a small bowl, stir together tea, honey, lemon juice and soy sauce.  Set aside.

Reduce oven temperature to 325° and turn chicken over.  Baste skin with the honey-lemon mixture.  Bake for another 30 minutes, periodically basting with mixture scooped up from pan (or just make a double batch of the honey-lemon mixture and only use half to baste the first time.

This recipe is gooey and sweet and entirely delicious.  But it's not what you'd call low-fat or healthy.  You can eat the chicken without the skin to make it slightly healthier, but frankly, IMO that's the best part.  Heh.  I just realize the only other main dish recipe I've blogged here is also a chicken recipe.

Comments

[keewee]

This sounds like a very tasty chicken recipe. I will have to try it.