Hot honey is all the fad lately! And our Hot Honey Chicken Salad brings this meals development to its most potential. Cornflake-coated hen breasts are air-fried till golden brown after which tossed in a straightforward selfmade sizzling honey. 

Serve it over romaine lettuce and contemporary veggies earlier than topping it off with our scrumptious creamy feta cheese dressing for a salad expertise like no different!

I’ll confess: I’ve been obsessive about this salad to the purpose of getting it day-after-day for lunch for a complete week on the Fit Foodie studio. It’s that good! The mixture of flavors and textures is ELITE. And truthfully, what’s to not love about crispy hen coated in candy and spicy sizzling honey sauce?

To make it, simply put together your salad base and make the simple dressing and sizzling honey sauce. Then reduce and coat your hen earlier than air frying to perfection. All that’s left to do from right here is toss your hen in sizzling honey, assemble, and serve!

What’s In Hot Honey Chicken Salad

• Romaine lettuce combine: We used an enormous pile of contemporary romaine lettuce as the bottom for this honey sizzling hen salad. 
• Recent veggies: We used a ton of contemporary chopped veggies like carrots, cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, and avocado so as to add some shade and taste to the salad.
• Feta cheese: The right tangy, salty cheese to stability out the sweetness of the recent honey.
• 2% Greek yogurt: Greek yogurt is used as the bottom of the dressing, offering a creamy and tangy component to the salad.
• Apple cider vinegar: A superb salad dressing at all times has a component of acidity to it!
• Honey: Ensure you don’t use uncooked honey, because it has a decrease moisture content material. This may trigger it to brown extra rapidly.
• Pink pepper flakes: The “sizzling” in sizzling honey! Be happy to regulate the quantity primarily based in your spice choice.
• Boneless skinless hen breast: We used hen breast for a lean protein choice.
• Corn flakes: The key to the crispy coating on the hen. It’s candy and crunchy, making it the right match for the recent honey sauce.

Straightforward Ingredient Swaps

We’re large advocates for permitting area for creativity and utilizing what we now have available with regards to cooking. Listed here are a couple of variations you’ll be able to attempt with this recipe:

Swap the hen breast for thighs: When you want darkish meat or have some available, swap out the hen breasts for thighs! Simply be certain that to regulate the cooking time within the air fryer accordingly.

Use totally different veggies: Be happy to make use of any veggies you will have available or want. Bell peppers, pink onion, zucchini, and corn would all be nice additions to this salad.

Change up the warmth: Swap the pink pepper flakes for six Thai chiles minced with seeds for a spicier sizzling honey sauce.

Go gluten-free: You’re welcome to make use of gluten-free flour instead of the all-function flour and gluten-free corn flakes as an alternative of normal.

Tasty additions: Strive including some extra toppings to the salad, like diced bacon, tortilla strips, or dried cranberries, for some further crunch and taste. 

Storage + Make Forward Instructions

This sizzling honey hen salad is greatest loved instantly after assembling. Nevertheless, if you should retailer it for later, be certain that to retailer the parts individually. The new honey sauce could be saved in an hermetic container within the fridge for as much as 2 weeks. 

The hen and dressing will also be saved in separate containers within the fridge for as much as Four days. When able to eat, reheat the hen within the air fryer for a couple of minutes and assemble your salad with contemporary veggies and dressing as desired.

If you’re making this salad forward of time or making it for meal prep, we advocate conserving the salad, dressing, and hen all separate till proper earlier than serving. 

What to Serve with Hot Honey Chicken Salad

This sizzling honey hen salad was made to be an entire meal by itself, however when you’re trying to decrease the portion dimension and serve one thing on the aspect, we’ve acquired loads of choices for you:

Hot Honey Chicken Salad Recipe

Get pleasure from sizzling honey at its best with this sizzling honey hen salad recipe! It checks all of the bins: crispy, candy, spicy, and creamy. After making an attempt it, it’s possible you’ll end up craving it day-after-day, identical to we do!

Prep:40 minutes minutes

Cook dinner:20 minutes minutes

Complete:1 hour hour

Fats 27

Carbs 58

Protein 36

Elements

Salad

• 4 oz. romaine lettuce combine
• 1 giant carrot peeled and sliced into skinny half-moons
• ½ medium cucumber sliced into half-moons
• 1 pint cherry tomatoes halved
• 2 giant avocados pitted and sliced

Hot Honey Chicken

• 1/2 cup honey not uncooked honey
• 2 teaspoons pink pepper flakes or 6 Thai chiles minced with seeds
• 1/2 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
• 1 garlic cloves sliced
• 1.5 lbs. boneless skinless hen breast
• 4 cups corn flakes
• ¼ cup all-function flour or 1:1 gluten-free
• 2.5 teaspoons garlic powder
• 2.5 teaspoons coarse salt
• 1 teaspoon cracked black pepper
• 1.5 teaspoons floor mustard
• 1.5 teaspoons paprika
• 3 giant eggs
• 1 tablespoon water
• 3-4 tablespoons avocado oil or olive oil

Directions 

• Add all the elements for the salad in a big bowl and toss. Put aside.

• Put together the dressing by including all the dressing elements to a bowl and blend till mixed. Use the again of a spoon or fork to smash the feta into small items, if wanted. Put aside.

• Make the recent honey sauce. Add the honey, pink pepper flakes or chiles, apple cider vinegar, and garlic to a small saucepan and blend. Warmth the honey over medium/excessive warmth and convey to a mild boil.

• Take away the honey from the warmth and pour the honey right into a mason jar. Put aside to chill.

• Preheat the air fryer to 370-375ºF.

• Now, prep the hen. Slice the hen into 1.5-2-inch items and set it apart.

• Place the cornflakes, flour, garlic powder, salt, pepper, floor mustard, and paprika right into a meals processor and pulse on low till the combination has became the consistency of bread crumbs. Pour the cornflake combination right into a medium-sized bowl.

• Crack the eggs into one other medium-sized bowl and add the water. Whisk the 2 elements collectively till mixed.

• Coating the hen goes to be a double-dredge course of. Dredge a chunk of hen by means of the egg combination. Let the egg drip from the hen, after which dredge the hen by means of the cornflake combination till the hen is coated. Subsequent, dredge the hen by means of the egg and cornflake combination yet one more time and set the hen on a plate. Repeat this step till all of the hen is coated.

• Air fry the hen. Spray the air fryer basket with cooking spray or oil. Place as many hen items in your air fryer as you’ll be able to handle with out crowding the basket. We might match about 11 small items of hen in our air fryer. Drizzle 1 tablespoon of oil over the hen and cook dinner hen for Four minutes, flip and cook dinner for an extra Four minutes or till golden brown and crispy. The second cook dinner time might range primarily based on what air fryer you utilize. Repeat this step till all of the hen is cooked.

• Place the crispy hen into a big mixing bowl, drizzle ½ cup of sizzling honey over the hen, and gently toss the hen with the honey. If you need extra sizzling honey, add extra honey!

• High the salad with the dressing after which the recent honey hen and serve.

Suggestions & Notes

• Layer this salad nevertheless you prefer to! If we’re serving this salad instantly, we wish to have all of our greens on the underside of a giant bowl (besides the avocado). Then, we costume the lettuce and prime all of it with hen and chunks of avocado.
• If we’re serving this salad later or making it for meal prep, we preserve the salad, dressing, and hen all separate till proper earlier than serving.
• The double dredge is necessary if you wish to find yourself with very crispy hen.
• Needless to say all people dredges otherwise. When you run out of the egg combination, it may very well be since you used a unique-sized egg or didn’t enable the egg to drip off for lengthy sufficient. When you run out of egg combination, simply whisk up one other egg. When you run out of cornflake combination, you can even make extra cornflake combination!
• How giant or small you narrow your hen will decide how lengthy it must cook dinner within the air fryer. Be happy to chop your hen into bigger chunks, it can simply take a bit longer.
• Air fryers and air fryer customers can range enormously. Some air fryers are stronger, have totally different temperature settings, and so forth. Get your temperature as shut as you’ll be able to to 370-375ºF.
• Don’t skip the oil on this recipe. The oil is a necessary ingredient to air fry because it circulates within the air fryer and fries the hen.

Diet info

Energy: 598kcal Carbohydrates: 58g Protein: 36g Fats: 27g Fiber: 8g Sugar: 29g