Baked Honey Lemon Chicken Breast with Garlic, Onion & Basil

The onion and garlic are delicious too!

Ingredient

300gm chicken breast meat, skin on

4 cloves of garlic, minced

1 small yellow onion, sliced

3 tbsp honey

3 tbsp water

1-2 tbsp lemon juice

Salt to season chicken 

3 tbsp olive oil

Method

1) Preheat oven to 180 degree celsius.

2) Pound the chicken breast using the back of the knife to make the meat thiner. Alternatively if the chicken meat was frozen, you can cut the chicken breast into half when it is half thawed. It is easier to cut when the meat is still slightly harder.

3) Season the chicken with salt on both side.

4) Heat oil in pan. When the oil started smoking, put the chicken breast in, skin side down. Fry on high heat, about 1-2 minutes each side to brown it. The chicken meat does not need to be fully cooked at this point as you need to bake it in the oven. When browned, dish out and put on baking pan.

5) Mix honey, water and lemon juice. Stir well.

5) Sprinkle garlic and onion on the chicken. Then pour honey mixture all over the chicken.

6) Bake the chicken for about 8-10 minutes, depending on the thickness of the chicken breast. If the onion and garlic start to burnt and the meat is still not cooked, cover the baking pan and continue to bake until inside of chicken is cooked.

7) When done, sprinkle dried basil leaves (or your favourite herbs) on the chicken.