Freezer Meal Honey Balsamic Vinegar Chicken
Freezer Meals sure make dinner easier. This is a sticky wonderful tasting chicken that will have you licking your fingers before you reach for a napkin. You will not want to waste a drop. The great thing about this recipe is you can cook it in the oven or throw it all in the slow cooker before leaving for work.
We always make a double batch of this but we have four adults eating.
Ingredients:
1/2 cup Balsamic Vinegar
1/4 cup Soy Sauce
1/2 cup Honey
2 Tablespoons Olive Oil
4 Cloves Garlic
1 Tablespoon Onion Powder
1/2 teaspoon Salt
6-8 chicken legs (really any combination of cut up chicken works)
1 Tablespoon Corn Starch or Flour
1/4 cup Brown Sugar
Directions:
~ Combine all the ingredients above the chicken into a large baggie and squish to mix
~ Add chicken
~ Seal baggie and press around to coat the chicken in the marinade
~ Remove as much air as possible and make sure baggie is sealed completely. We always place this baggie inside another baggie as a precaution because cleaning up a mess of frozen marinade is not fun!
When you are ready to prepare the meal you have two options:
Option #1:
~ Place in refrigerator the night before (place in a bowl again as a precaution)
~ When you are ready to cook, start preheating oven to 450 degrees
~ Remove chicken from the baggie (save marinade) and place the chicken on a foil lined baking sheet
~ Bake at 30 minutes at 450
~ While chicken is baking (I start this about 20 minutes into cooking process), place reserved marinade in saucepan and bring to a boil. Allow to boil for 5 minutes to kill any germs and then add the corn starch and brown sugar. Stir well and drop heat to simmer until timer is up on chicken
~ Pour reduced glaze over chicken and return to oven under the broiler on high for 5 minutes
Option #2:
~ Place in refrigerator the night before (place in a bowl again as a precaution)
~ In the morning, toss everything into the slow cooker and cook on low 8 hours or high for 4 hours
~ 30 minutes before serving time, combine the flour and brown sugar with 4 ounces of tap water. Mix well and stir into the chicken
Both options render the most tender chicken cooked in one yummerlious sauce!
This sounds so good & i had to save it to pinterest so i can try it at a later date =)
Sounds like a good yummy meal will be giving it a try Thanks for the recipe 🙂
Thanks for sharing your recipe for Honey Balsamic Vinegar Chicken. It looks and sounds delicious, but then all of your recipes are that way. I am 61 and a horrible cook. My son is 27 and a wonderful cook. He has made several of your recipes at my request. I am still recuperating from 2 separate falls where I broke my leg in 7 places and 6 weeks later, I fell and broke my hip on the same leg. I am finally out of the wheelchair after 2 surgeries. I use a walker now, but it’s still hard to get around in the kitchen. Now our oven stopped working, so my son will have to go to our neighbor’s to use her oven. We share meals with her anyway since she is in her 80s and lives alone. We all love your recipes. Our neighbor is diabetic and I was wondering if you have any dessert recipes for diabetics. Thanks for all you do! We love your blog and your recipes and giveaways.
i love chicken a lot and and then the new way you can make it for dinner or lunch
This looks and sounds delicious! I am going to make this in a couple weeks.
Freezer meals are a godsend with how much I work. My kids love em and I like trying new flavors like this! Definitely adding to the dinner rotation! Thanks
Freezer meals are a godsend with how much I work. My kids love em and I like trying new flavors like this! Definitely adding to the dinner rotation! Thanks
This sounds super delicious and I love to try new recipes.
Sounds great! Will have to try this soon!!
Sounds good though I wouldn’t freeze it. Freezer meals are a pain to me. All that work to freeze a bunch of stuff then it still takes an hour or more to thaw and heat up dinner. I’d rather just make it fresh. I never remember to get stuff out in time to thaw
I’d probably leave out the brown sugar glaze and perhaps cut down on the honey – it would wreak havoc on my blood sugar.
This looks like a great idea for my family night with basmati rice and a salad.
This sounds super delicious…thanks for sharing! The oven method sounds great, but being as hot as it is right now, I’ll try it in the crock-pot, first 🙂
This recipe sounds great. We eat alot of chicken so I really appreciate this recipe. I will be trying this soon. Thank you for sharing
This sounds really good . I will have to make this.
This recipe looks seriously delicious. i have been looking for a new way to cook chicken, a staple in our house and am printing this recipe. kudos!!
I have never had honey balsamic vinegar chicken before,but it does look and sound s good.This would be something i would love to make for my family.
This looks like yummy! I love that you can prepare this recipe the night before and put it in the slow cooker the next day!
Thanks for the recipe, I love vinegary flavors!
Looks and sounds so good…definitely one to hold onto!
looks yummy … can’t wait to try it
Love slow cooker meals. Gonna pick up the ingredients and try it soon.
This sounds delicious! I have been looking for some more freezer meals.. We love balsamic vinegar, so I’m definitely going to have to try this one! Thanks for sharing 🙂
this sounds like a great reciep and i am going to try it soon
These look and sound delicious! Yum!
This chicken recipe looks so yummy I want to make
This sounds great and freezer meals are amazing.
That brings together some of my favorite flavors. I’d toss it in the slow cooker.
This is so easy to make and would make for a great dinner!
Oh great dinner recipe.