This Hot Honey Chicken recipe is baked, quick, and delicious, with a generous drizzle of Hot Honey Chicken Sauce!

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Chicken is coated with an amazing spice mix, that makes it flavorful and further baked to crispy. The best part is yet to come, it's the hot honey glaze for the chicken!

a top view of a pan with baked crispy honey hot chicken arranged

Hot Honey Chicken

Name: Best Hot Honey Chicken
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 4 Servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2 Chicken Breasts, sliced lengthwise into thinner strips; 1/4 tsp Salt; 1/4 tsp Black Pepper Powder; Flour Mix:; 1/2 Cup All Purpose Flour + Cornstarch (mixed 50-50); Egg Wash:; 2 Eggs, beaten; 2 Tbsp Water; 1 Tbsp Hot Sauce; Cornflakes Coating:; 4 Cups cornflakes, crushed; 1/2 tsp Salt; 1.5 Tbsp Smoked Paprika; 1/2 tsp Onion Powder; 1/2 tsp Garlic Powder; 1/2 tsp Dried Thyme; 1/2 tsp Black Pepper Powder; 1/2 Cup Honey; 2 Tbsp Butter (Optional); 4 Tbsp Hot Sauce; 1/2 tsp Paprika; 1/2 tsp Cayenne Pepper; 2 Tbsp Brown Sugar; 3 tsp Apple Cider; 1/2 tsp Garlic Powder; 1/2 tsp Onion Powder

This hot honey chicken recipe is not something out of the ordinary but definitely something exciting that your family will look up to, at least mine waits for the days when I make this chicken!

close up of a baking pan with crispy baked chicken with hot honey sauce

Hot Honey Chicken Ingredients:

This baked hot honey chicken recipe needs basic ingredients ideally available in your pantry.

Ingredients to make the hot honey sauce for chicken:

Ingredients to make coating for chicken:

a bowl with ingredients to coat chicken for hot honey chicken

ingredients to coat chicken pieces with egg and flour

How To Make Hot Honey Chicken?

Step 1: Slice chicken lengthwise into strips. Season with salt and pepper.

Step 2: In a bowl add flour mix and keep aside.

In a separate bowl, add eggs, water, and hot sauce. Whisk well and keep aside.

Step 3: Add cornflakes to a ziplock bag and crush them with a rolling pin. Add these to another bowl and keep aside.

cornflakes crushed for hot honey chicken covering

Step 4: Preheat oven to 400F / 200C and line a baking tray with parchment paper.

Step 5: Coat the chicken pieces with flour on both sides and shake off the excess flour. Dip the chicken in egg wash and coat it with cornflake spice mix.

steps to coat the chicken for making hot honey chicken

Step 6: Place the chicken pieces on a baking tray lined with parchment paper. Repeat this step for all chicken pieces.

Drizzle oil over the chicken pieces and bake for 15 minutes to 20 minutes.

Chicken coated with cornflakes and spices arranged on a baking tray

Step 7: Flip chicken pieces halfway through cooking.

Step 8: To prepare hot honey sauce, add all ingredients to a saucepan, cook on low heat, and let it simmer. Once the sauce starts to thicken, switch off the heat.

Generously drizzle sauce over the chicken and serve.

crispy baked hot honey chicken with sauce dripping on chicken

crispy baked hot honey chicken with hot honey sauce arranged on a baking tray

What To Serve With Hot Honey Chicken?

Enjoy this crispy baked honey chicken with Mexican street corn salad.
Also, along with the amazing Elote .

Tips To Make Hot Honey Baked Chicken

Cornflakes are the key to getting that perfect crunchy chicken. You can use panko instead, but the crunch you will get with cornflakes is amazing.
This recipe does not require any prep work. Just season the chicken, coat it, and bake it. It's that simple.
I would not suggest freezing the sauce or the cooked chicken. The freshly cooked chicken is full of flavor and would lose that flavor when frozen.
If you are freezing the leftovers, arrange them in a single layer and freeze them for up to a week.
Reheating frozen chicken will be arranged in a single layer and heated in an oven until piping hot.

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Hot Honey Chicken Ingredients: