Honey and mustard may seem incompatible only to someone who has never tried to mix them. When combined, these ingredients do not interrupt and do not reduce the organoleptic qualities of each other. On the contrary, they strengthen and emphasize them. This sauce can often be found in salad dressings, sauces and marinades. Honey-mustard sauce is very good for chicken. In it, you can marinate, bake. Also, such liquid seasoning can be served separately with chicken dishes.
Cooking Features
The sweet and spicy taste of honey mustard seasoning makes it possible to emphasize most vividly the delicate taste of chicken meat. The dish becomes even more pleasant if the main ingredients are supplemented with fruit juice, herbs, ginger, garlic and other ingredients. There are many variations of honey and mustard sauce for chicken meat, and the technology of cooking these spices is not always identical. In order to avoid mistakes and get the expected result, you must follow the recommendations that accompany a specific recipe. However, there are several points, the knowledge of which is useful to the cook, no matter what recipe he is going to make honey mustard seasoning for a chicken snack.
- Honey for sauce is necessary to use natural, but not necessarily fresh. Even if this product has managed to sugar, it can be melted to a liquid state, heated in a microwave or in a container with hot water.
- Mustard can be used to make a sauce using powdered, cereal or ready-made seasoning. Most prefer the latter, but it is not always the same. The most acute is the Russian mustard, the most soft - the French. The taste of the ready seasoning directly depends on what kind of mustard is used.
- Often soy sauce is added to the honey and mustard sauce. It is usually salty, and then it is not necessary to add salt and honey mustard seasoning.
- Garlic is one of the most popular chicken additions. If it is subjected to heat treatment, it will lose its sharpness, giving only a smell to the sauce. If you put fresh garlic in the sauce and do not heat it up anymore, the seasoning will be even more spicy than the mustard and honey alone cooked.
Most varieties of mustard-honey sauce for poultry are simply prepared, and even an aspiring cook will cope with this task. The presence of a large number of recipes for this seasoning allows you to pick it up almost for every taste and for any purpose.
Universal honey-mustard sauce
Composition:
- honey - 20 ml;
- table mustard - 20 ml;
- nutmeg - a pinch;
- olive oil - 40 ml;
- lemon juice - 20 ml;
- garlic - 1 clove;
- salt, pepper - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Skip garlic through a special press.
- Heat the honey in a water bath so that it becomes completely liquid.
- Mix honey with lemon juice and olive oil.
- Combine mustard and garlic with this mixture, mix thoroughly.
- Add salt, pepper and nutmeg.
- Whip the sauce with a whisk so that its consistency is smooth.
- Cool the sauce for 1-2 hours.
The sauce prepared according to this recipe can be served separately with chicken dishes or serve as a salad dressing in which poultry serves as the main ingredient. If you marinate chicken legs or wings in this sauce, the dish of them will be more delicious and fragrant.
Honey mustard sauce for marinating chicken before frying or baking
Composition:
- French mustard - 40 ml;
- honey - 20 ml;
- orange - 1 pc .;
- lemon - 0, 5 pcs .;
- olive oil - 20 ml;
- soy sauce - 40 ml;
- cumin, pepper - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Wash fruit, wipe off with a napkin. Squeeze the juice out of them, rub the zest.
- Put the juice and zest from the whole orange and half a lemon in a small bowl.
- Melt the honey, mix it with mustard, put this mass in a container with orange-lemon juice, beat the contents of the bowl with a whisk.
- Add little and soy sauce, add pepper and cumin. Whisk the contents of the bowl again.
Now you can put prepared chicken pieces in a bowl with sauce, mix them with your hands and leave for a few hours in a cool place. In this way, you can marinate chicken for grilling, as well as for kebabs.
Chicken sauce with honey, mustard and mayonnaise
Composition:
- mayonnaise - 0, 25 l;
- honey - 30 ml;
- table mustard - 30 ml;
- granulated garlic - 5 g;
- a mixture of peppers - 5 g;
- salt - to taste (you can do without it).
Method of preparation:
- Mix honey melted to liquid state with mustard.
- Mix honey-mustard mass with mayonnaise, beat the products with a whisk.
- Add salt, pepper mixture, garlic and whisk again.
The sauce prepared according to this recipe is almost universal. In it, the chicken can be pickled and baked. It can also be served separately to the chicken, but before that it needs to be cooled. As a salad dressing for chicken, this liquid seasoning is also applicable.
Honey-mustard sauce with ginger for chicken
Composition:
- table mustard - 30 ml;
- ginger root - 30 g;
- garlic - 3 cloves;
- lemon - 1 pc .;
- honey - 40 ml;
- olive oil - 120 ml;
- salt - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Peel the ginger root, chop it on a grater with small holes or, finely chopped, turn it into a puree using a blender.
- Clean garlic cloves, crush with a special press.
- Lemon wash well, preferably in hot water, blot with a napkin. Cut the fruit in half, squeeze the juice out of it. Remove the zest from lemon halves with a special grater.
- Put ginger root, garlic, zest and lemon juice in a bowl, mix.
- Melt the honey, combine it with mustard. Mustard-honey mixture to shredded products. Well stir everything up.
- Pour oil into the food container. Whisk them.
It remains to salt the sauce and let it stand, holding it in the refrigerator for about an hour. This variant of honey-mustard seasoning is suitable not only for chicken, but also for pepper. Serving this sauce to the table will not be superfluous to warn guests that this seasoning is very spicy.
Sweet-sour and spicy seasonings are often served with chicken, as they make it possible to best shade the taste of tender chicken meat. Among such additions to chicken dishes is honey-garlic sauce. It can not only be served with poultry dishes, but also used as a marinade, salad dressing. There are several recipes for chicken sauce with mustard and honey, it is possible to choose an option for almost every taste.
