Sticky Chicken is baked in a deliciously different homemade honey soy sauce barbecue sticky sauce. We like to serve it over yellow rice and spoon extra sauce on top for the rice to soak in. You’ve got to taste this sauce! It’s like no other.
If I had to pick the one supper my family enjoys most these days, it’s Sticky Chicken. In fact, when we have our special family supper on Friday nights, 50% of the time, Sticky Chicken is on the menu just because I like how excited everyone gets when they know it’s coming. I’ve even made a promise to our bonus daughter (Katy’s best friend) that I will never have Sticky Chicken without inviting her over – and so far she has never missed an opportunity to be here for this. I make sure to cook extra to send home to her family, too. Seriously, this is THAT special of a meal at my house.
Today I’m sharing a new version with you! The original recipe requires bone-in, skin-on chicken. The skin was key for all that wonderful sticky sauce to have something to stick to. I’ve since modified the recipe with a little trick that makes it work with boneless skinless chicken breasts because: A. They are everyone’s favorite and B. They are easier (and often cheaper) to find these days. I always have boneless, skinless chicken in my freezer.
You’ll need: Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts, Honey, Brown Sugar, Ketchup, Soy Sauce, Garlic Powder, and All Purpose Flour*.
*Self rising will do just fine if that is what you have.
To make the sauce, simply place all of the ingredients in a 2 cup measuring cup and stir well. Place this in the microwave or a small sauce pot. If using the microwave: Heat for one minute and stir. Repeat in thirty second intervals, stirring after each, until smooth and well blended. If using a sauce pot: Heat over medium heat, stirring often, until it becomes hot enough to blend together well, with no lumps.
Pour just a bit of this wonderful sauce in the bottom of a 9×13 baking dish. Spread to coat the bottom of the dish.
Place flour in a shallow bowl and just press each side of each chicken breast into that so that it is lightly coated.
Place these in your baking dish.
Spoon remaining sauce over the top. Place in 350 degree oven, uncovered. After 30 minutes, remove from oven and carefully flip chicken pieces over. Spoon sauce from baking dish over them again and return to oven for another 15-30 minutes, or until chicken is fully cooked. Baste it once more during this time.
Remove from oven and baste again (without returning to oven). Allow to sit for five minutes and baste once more before serving.
Excellent served with yellow rice or mashed potatoes so you can spoon some of that delicious sauce over them!
I hope your family and friends love this as much as mine does.
Ingredients
- 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
- 1/2 cup honey
- 1/2 cup ketchup
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup soy sauce
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
Instructions
- In medium bowl or large measuring cup (I use a 4 cup measuring cup) stir together ketchup, soy sauce, honey, brown sugar, and garlic powder until well combined. If using the microwave: Heat for one minute and stir. Repeat in thirty second intervals, stirring after each, until smooth and well blended. If using a sauce pot: Heat over medium heat, stirring often, until it becomes hot enough to blend together well, with no lumps.
- Place enough sauce in the bottom of a 9x13 baking dish to be able to spread it around and cover the bottom.
- Place 1 cup flour in a shallow bowl. Dip each chicken breast into flour on both sides and place in the baking dish top side down. Spoon remaining sauce over, making sure to coat the chicken.
- Place in 350 degree oven, uncovered. After 30 minutes, remove from oven and carefully flip chicken pieces over. Spoon sauce from baking dish over them again and return to oven for another 15-30 minutes, or until chicken is fully cooked, basting once more while cooking.
- Remove from oven and baste again. Allow to sit for five minutes and baste once more before serving. Excellent served with yellow rice or mashed potatoes so you can spoon some of that delicious sauce over them!
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Yum 
This looks awesome! Will be trying soon!
Thanks so much, I hope you enjoy it!
Can we keep
The sauce for another time?
Has anyone tried this without the flour? I have Celiac Disease and can’t have flour & some flour subs don’t have the same results.
Here you go, the original recipe doesn’t need flour: https://www.southernplate.com/sticky-chicken/ This recipe uses it so that the sauce will have something to stick to.
I made it without the flour because the person I was taking it to needed glouton free. It turned out fine. I like it with the flour best but this still was yummy !
Do you think you could substitute coconut amino for the soy sauce?
I’ve never used coconut amino but if it has a similar flavor and texture (watery) it should work just fine.
It’s pretty much the same as soy sauce and not as much sodium. A nutritionist friend got me started using it. I’ll give it a try and report back. Thanks much!
I’ve got this in the oven for the first time. I’ll let you know how it turns out.
Sounds so good! Will be fixing this soon!
Have you tried this with boneless skinless chicken thighs?
I haven’t but it should work perfectly fine 🙂
The newsletter with this recipe came through right as I was deciding what to make for dinner. It was a hit here. Thanks!
Courtney, I’m so glad!!!! Thank you for making my morning! 😀
Mmmm, yummmy! I want to make this tomorrow. I just got a package of unusually large chicken breasts each weighing about a pound. Should I use 1 or 2 of these breasts, with the amount of sauce in this recipe? 1 pound or 2 and I assume cut the large pieces smaller before cooking? Thanks so much.
I would cut them in half and just use two (two, cut in half, so four pieces). I had some dinosaur ones recently, too! And they were a great deal. What a find!
Christy, is there ever a replacement for Ketchup in any recipe? My doctor has taken me off Nightshade plants and it’s killing me! No tomatoes, no peppers (bell, paprika, cayenne and PIMENTO!) No squash, okra, eggplant, or SOY sauce because in the USA, soy is cut with petunia which is a nightshade plant. Though, I have to say I am feeling much better since cutting these out of my diet, rats! (Spaghetti !!!) I hope you can give me some direction here. We so love your recipes even though I have to *edit* them. Thank you and God Bless!
Oh my goodness! I’m glad you were able to figure out the source of the issue and that it is so much better now! I’ve not heard of a replacement but I will sure ask around and let you know if I come up with anything. Thank you for sticking with me!
I made this boneless breast sticky chicken last night. Everyone just love it. My daughter who can be funny about chicken ate the most. Thank you for your wonderful recipes. When they ask where the recipe came from I just have to say Christy and they know who I am talking about. I use a lot of your recipes. Thank you for all of your hard work.
Tried this last night. Delicious! I’m diabetic so I shouldn’t have had any. The men loved it. Next time I’m going to add sweet bell peppers and onions to the sauce. Served with white rice. Thanks!
This menu looked so delish I decided to make it for dinner last night. Everything was done except for the chicken in the oven when do to a freak occurrence our oven decided to go into ERR mode. I decided to finish it in the pressure cooker. I am sure it would have been better finishing it the way the recipe intended but it was absolutely divine. Thanks for sharing this menu. The only thing I did different was to add a skillet of yellow squash!!
This was crazy good! My bbq snobby 20 year son said this was perfect rainy day bbq chicken. Sauce is delicious and chicken stays nice and moist. This will become a staple!
explain what yellow rice is??
Lyn
Christy mentioned it was Mahatma Yellow Saffron rice which comes in a box.
I made this over the weekend and it was by far one of the best chicken dishes I have ever had. So easy, the chicken was moist and the sauce was over the top! I will be making this for our Fourth of July meal. We had potato salad and corn on the cob with it on Sunday. I treated it like BBQ chicken! So yummy!
I enjoy your emails so much. Thanks for sharing all of these great recipes! They are a joy to read (lots of funny mixed in!), as is your entire post each time!
This is amazing !! Made it tonight for dinner
Yum, I pinned this wonderful chicken recipe for dinner this week.
Hugs,
Kippi
I made this last night and it was amazing! I was feeling so bored with cooking and this was so fun to make and eat 🙂
Could you cook this in the crock pot?
Yum— this looks and sounds delicious! Plus, easy to make; my only question is do you think it would be okay to put aluminum foil in the pan and still have the dish come out okay? If so, it would definitely make clean up a lot easier!! 🙂 Thanks for the recipe and any input you could give me on using the foil. 🙂
Can’t wait to try this – sounds so easy, too
Made this the other night, thought my husband was going to founder, we loved it so much, will become a family meal for us, and so easy to make.
I just made this recipe, and it is so good and easy! Finally a new way to cook chicken that my sons will love.
The next time I make it, I’m going to double the ingredients for the sauce, because I like pouring it over the rice, as well as the chicken. Yum!!!
Made this for dinner and wow!! This is delicious. My family enjoyed every bite. Thank you for another amazing recipe!