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Honey Glazed Chicken and Bacon Bites
I had an idea. Actually, it was more like my three hundred and forty-sixth idea for this month and I now have the hips to show for it. No biggie, I consider it a small sacrifice for eating food that tastes this good.
So I asked myself: “Would it be a really crazy idea to wrap loads of bacon around chicken strips and brush them with a spruced up honey marinade?”. Why yes, Kay, it would be. But frankly, I like crazy. I’m all for crazy.
See, now that’s what happens when you blog from your desolated home or kitchen (in the burbs). You get all delusional. You start talking to yourself. And what’s even worse, you end up answering your own rhetorical questions. Think about that before you ever decide to become a food blogger! The process is irreversible.
Anyway, it turned out nothing short of a phenomenal idea that I simply have to share here in my little corner of the www. Let me show you little bites of heaven!
Ingredients:
1 pound boneless chicken breasts
20 thin bacon slices
3 tbsp honey
2 tsp coarse mustard
fresh lemon juice
Optional: salt
Directions:
Cut the chicken breasts—or fillets, as we call them here—in thin strips. Not too thin, the bacon has to brown and if the chicken is too thin it’ll get dry before the bacon gets crispy. That would be a sin.
Note:
I’m using the Dutch equivalent to bacon in this recipe. It’s called Ontbijtspek and is saltier than regular bacon. You can sprinkle some salt (and/or pepper) on the chicken strips, if you like.
Grab a bowl and combine 3 tbsp honey with 2 tsp coarse mustard.
Squeeze in some lemon juice. Not too much, about a tbsp or so. I think orange juice will be great, too.
Bacon rights all the wrongs in this world. It brings justice to all the injustices. Or something like that.
I asked my favorite pair of extra hands to wrap the bacon around the chicken strips.
Place them in a roasting tray or on a cookie sheet. If you’re afraid of cleaning up, line the tray or sheet with some tin-foil first. I’m hard-core (And own a dish washing machine. It helps).
Brush the chicken bites with half the marinade.
Bake them in a preheated oven at 425F (225C) for 10 to 13 minutes. Until the bacon is crispy.
As soon as one side is done, take the tray out of the oven. Does this look good or what? I could never be a vegetarian simply because I cannot forsake bacon. I absolutely love it, in an artery clogging kind of way!
Flip them over and brush them with the remaining marinade.
Put them back in the oven for another 10 to 13 minutes, until the other side is crispy as well. Keep an eye on them.
Don’t these just scream: love me, bite me, chew me, eat me, devour me? If I can give you a tip, a really useful one at it, it would be to fix twice the amount you think you’ll need. And then some.
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This looks scrumptious… and this TASTES verrukkelijk!!!!!!
My son was the one who ate everything! and our guests were just surpised! hehe.
Thanks!
does it matter if you serve them hot or cold?? was going to make them new years day and take them to church that night..
@kim: sorry, wrong recipe..i meant to put that hot/cold comment on the cheddar and jalepeno twist
Made these for a party yestarday and they went down really well. Definetly should have made more.
You and I have the same bacon philosophies, and it makes me feel so much better. I could eat bacon like it’s candy. For real.
P.S. Trying this recipe this weekend for a family get together. I’m excited!
This will be a great one to try!@!! Looks sooo yummie
What a fantastic recipe! I just wanted to let you know that I loved your post and I shared a link to your blog on my Notepad feature that will be posted tomorrow morning. Thank you so much for sharing! :)
Ooooh, this looks super delicious! Perfect for a party…yum!!!
oh man. these look delicious! dang… now I’m hungry.
These look wonderful. I think I’ll replace the honey with some local dark maple syrup, though. I love maple and bacon together. Thanks for sharing!
Besides the obvious YUM of this recipe…and wondering how soon I can get to a store to buy back, where did you find the metal tongs you use? Those look so perfect, kind of like a cross between a metal spatula and tongs. I would love to find some!
Made this for a dinner party tonight and EVERYBODY was talking about them. Fantastic–I will absolutely make them again!
Made these for supper tonight. Sadly the bacon did not crisp (it wasn’t thick cut bacon, either). I realized too late that instead of just using the oven, I should have used the broiler. Once I did, it worked much better, but by then the chicken was dried out. I’d try them again, but using the broiler only. Or maybe the barbecue.
I’m eating these as I write…they are a-maz-ing!
So I guess I could go ahead and cut up the chicken, wrap it in bacon, then freeze them – precooked – right? And take them out and slather them with the sauce, then pop them in the oven when I’m ready to eat them. Any reason why this wouldn’t work?
Just made these for dinner and it was fabulous!! Big hit in my house, I will definitely be making it again.
GREAT!!! recipe! Thanks. Friends loved these at a recent dinner party.
Easy, fast and delicious.
thank you so much,
janice g.
These are in the oven now! They smell GOOD !
Wow, love this, definitely going to try it. Thanks for sharing.
Made these for our book club Christmas party and they were a hit, of course! But, I had a question, when I was preparing them I found that the bacon was swallowing the chicken whole :) And I cut the chicken just as you described. They were good solid appetizer size pieces. Do you cut the bacon in half width or lengthwise or is that why you use the dutch equivalent because it is more manageable? Thanks again for sharing this superlicious recipe :)!!
hey,
We loved this recipe so much that we featured it in our food round up. check is out. http://www.recipelionblog.com/top-5-party-food-favorites/
Thanks for the great food!
Where do I start? I love reading your funny/cute blog posts about food. They crack me right up! Also I’m so visual (and a photographer) so when you do the step by step pictures I’m like “Ummm yeah. I get it and I want it.” Thanks for the super yummy recipes! I’m making these tonight for our friends.
Gonna make these for New Years party
These were great my family loved them….
OMG!! these look delish!! Im gonna make these for my dads 50th surprise bday party!