Scorching honey is all the craze as of late! And our Scorching Honey Hen Salad brings this meals pattern to its most potential. Cornflake-coated hen breasts are air-fried till golden brown after which tossed in a straightforward do-it-yourself scorching 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 daily for lunch for a complete week on the Match 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 scorching honey sauce?

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

What’s In Scorching Honey Hen Salad

• Romaine lettuce combine: We used a giant pile of contemporary romaine lettuce as the bottom for this honey scorching hen salad. 
• Contemporary veggies: We used a ton of contemporary chopped veggies like carrots, cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, and avocado so as to add some coloration and taste to the salad.
• Feta cheese: The proper 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 factor to the salad.
• Apple cider vinegar: A very good salad dressing all the time has a component of acidity to it!
• Honey: Be sure to don’t use uncooked honey, because it has a decrease moisture content material. This may trigger it to brown extra rapidly.
• Crimson pepper flakes: The “scorching” in scorching honey! Be at liberty to regulate the quantity primarily based in your spice desire.
• Boneless skinless hen breast: We used hen breast for a lean protein possibility.
• 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.

Simple Ingredient Swaps

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

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

Use completely different veggies: Be at liberty to make use of any veggies you may have readily available or favor. Bell peppers, purple onion, zucchini, and corn would all be nice additions to this salad.

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

Go gluten-free: You’re welcome to make use of gluten-free flour instead of the all-purpose flour and gluten-free corn flakes as a substitute of standard.

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

Storage + Make Forward Instructions

This scorching honey hen salad is greatest loved instantly after assembling. Nonetheless, if that you must retailer it for later, make certain to retailer the elements individually. The recent honey sauce may be saved in an hermetic container within the fridge for as much as 2 weeks. 

The hen and dressing may also be saved in separate containers within the fridge for as much as 4 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.

In case you are making this salad forward of time or making it for meal prep, we suggest protecting the salad, dressing, and hen all separate till proper earlier than serving. 

What to Serve with Scorching Honey Hen Salad

This scorching honey hen salad was made to be a whole meal by itself, however if you happen to’re trying to reduce the portion dimension and serve one thing on the facet, we’ve received loads of choices for you:

Scorching Honey Hen Salad Recipe

Take pleasure in scorching honey at its most interesting with this scorching honey hen salad recipe! It checks all of the containers: crispy, candy, spicy, and creamy. After making an attempt it, it’s possible you’ll end up craving it daily, identical to we do!

Prep:40 minutes minutes

Cook dinner:20 minutes minutes

Whole:1 hour hour

Fats 27

Carbs 58

Protein 36

Components

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

Scorching Honey Hen

• 1/2 cup honey not uncooked honey
• 2 teaspoons purple 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-purpose 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 the entire components for the salad in a big bowl and toss. Put aside.

• Put together the dressing by including the entire dressing components 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, purple pepper flakes or chiles, apple cider vinegar, and garlic to a small saucepan and blend. Warmth the honey over medium/excessive warmth and produce to a delicate 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 become 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 components collectively till mixed.

• Coating the hen goes to be a double-dredge course of. Dredge a bit of hen via the egg combination. Let the egg drip from the hen, after which dredge the hen via the cornflake combination till the hen is coated. Subsequent, dredge the hen via the egg and cornflake combination another 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 may match about 11 small items of hen in our air fryer. Drizzle 1 tablespoon of oil over the hen and cook dinner hen for 4 minutes, flip and cook dinner for an extra 4 minutes or till golden brown and crispy. The second cook dinner time may fluctuate 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 scorching honey over the hen, and gently toss the hen with the honey. If you need extra scorching honey, add extra honey!

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

Ideas & Notes

• Layer this salad nevertheless you desire to! If we’re serving this salad instantly, we wish to have all of our greens on the underside of a big bowl (besides the avocado). Then, we costume the lettuce and high all of it with hen and chunks of avocado.
• If we’re serving this salad later or making it for meal prep, we hold the salad, dressing, and hen all separate till proper earlier than serving.
• The double dredge is vital if you wish to find yourself with very crispy hen.
• Understand that everyone dredges in a different way. When you run out of the egg combination, it could possibly be since you used a different-sized egg or didn’t permit 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 too 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 at liberty to chop your hen into bigger chunks, it’s going to simply take a bit longer.
• Air fryers and air fryer customers can fluctuate enormously. Some air fryers are stronger, have completely 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 vital ingredient to air fry because it circulates within the air fryer and fries the hen.

Diet information

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