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Do you need a meal to please everyone in the family? Make Honey Mustard Chicken. Juicy grilled chicken breasts that’s been soaking up the flavor of a honey mustard marinade. Top the chicken with cheese, sautéed mushrooms and crispy bacon. The whole family will rush to the table for dinner.
Why Honey Mustard Chicken?
Dinners are challenging for families. Dietary restrictions, well-balanced meals, and personal likes and dislikes are just a few of the hurdles when deciding what to cook for dinner. This meal has something for everyone including the kids.
A Few Recipe Notes
- If you don’t like mushrooms, leave them off. Bacon and Cheese still make this Honey Mustard Chicken Amazing.
- If you don’t like Bacon………why not? What’s wrong with you? Ok, it’s still good with Cheese and Mushrooms, but I think bacon makes it better.
- If you’re short on time and cooking bacon isn’t an option, grab a bag of real bacon bits from the store. Those are perfect to use for this recipe in a pinch.
- The Honey Mustard is a great dipping sauce for the chicken. Kids and adults will both enjoy it. I like to use condiment cups to help keep portion controls in check. They also keep the sauce contained in one place for easy dipping. Click HERE for the condiment cups.
- Even after reheating for lunch the chicken was juicy and delicious.
- The recipe is Gluten Free
- For Dairy Free, leave off the cheese.
- A Salad Dressing Shaker makes easy work for making the marinade.
Don’t forget the rest of the meal!
Great side dish options for this meal are:
With so much going for this recipe, I’m stopping my typing now so you can start cooking.
Enjoy!
Honey Mustard Chicken with Bacon, Mushrooms, and Cheese
Monterey Chicken is a Chili’s copycat recipe. It’s no longer on Chili’s menu but you can still make this easy BBQ Chicken weeknight dinner at home.
Servings: 4 -6
Ingredients
- 1-1.5 lbs. Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts
- 8 oz. Mushrooms, Sliced
- 2 TB Butter
- 8 Bacon Slices, Cooked
- 1 Cup Shredded Cheese of choice
- Honey Mustard Marinade. Recipe below
- Honey Mustard Dipping Sauce. Recipe below
- Marinade Ingredients:
- ¼ Cup Honey
- 2 Tbs. Yellow Mustard
- 2 Tbs. Vegetable Oil
- 1 Clove of Garlic, Finely Minced, Pasted, or Grated
- ½ tsp. Onion Powder
- ¼ tsp. Paprika
- 3-4 Drops of Liquid Smoke, optional
- 1 tsp. Salt
- ¼-½ tsp Pepper
- 1 Tbs. Very Hot Tap Water
- Dipping Sauce Ingredients:
- ¼ Cup Mayonnaise
- ¼ Cup Honey
- 4 tsp. Yellow Mustard
- Dash of Paprika
- Pinch of Salt and Pepper
Instructions
- Marinade and Dipping Sauce:
- First, prepare the Marinade.
- Mix all the ingredients for the marinade in a small bowl except for the hot water.
- Add very hot water to the marinade and mix again. This will thin out the marinade a little.
- Place chicken in a large zip lock bag or container and add marinade.
- Place chicken in the refrigerator and marinate for 4-6 hours.
- Next, make the dipping sauce.
- Combine all ingredients for dipping sauce, cover and chill.
- Preparing Dinner:
- Remove chicken from marinade and discard marinade.
- Grill chicken over medium high heat for about 5-8 minutes per side or until cooked through. Chicken is cooked through when it reaches an internal temperature of 165°.
- While the chicken cooks, heat 2 Tbs. butter over medium high heat in sauté pan.
- Add mushrooms and some pepper to the pan. Sauté until mushrooms are brown and liquid from mushrooms has evaporated.
- Season mushrooms with salt.
- Transfer cooked chicken to a sheet pan and preheat broiler.
- Top each chicken breast in the following order. Cheese, Two slices of Bacon Crisscrossed, Mushrooms, More Cheese.
- Place Honey Mustard Chicken under the preheated broiler until the cheese melts.
- Serve with dipping sauce.
