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Hot honey chicken salad

Hot honey chicken salad

By William Dinh
40’ Prep time
20’ Cook time
60’ Total time
598 Calories
6 Serving

Summary

Hot honey is all the rage these days! and our hot honey chicken salad brings this food trend to its maximum potential. cornflake-coated chicken breasts are air-fried until golden brown and then tossed in an easy homemade hot honey.
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Step by Step

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Step 1

Add all of the ingredients for the salad in a large bowl and toss. Set aside.
Step 2
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Step 2

Prepare the dressing by adding all of the dressing ingredients to a bowl and mix until combined. Use the back of a spoon or fork to smash the feta into small pieces, if needed. Add water by the tablespoon to thin out the dressing to your liking. Set aside.
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Step 3

Make the hot honey sauce. Add the honey, red pepper flakes or chiles, apple cider vinegar, and garlic to a small saucepan and mix. Heat the honey over medium/high heat and bring to a gentle boil.
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Step 4

Remove the honey from the heat and pour the honey into a mason jar. Set aside to cool.
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Step 5

Preheat the air fryer to 370-375ºF.
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Step 6

Now, prep the chicken. Slice the chicken into 1.5-2-inch pieces and set it aside.
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Step 7

Place the cornflakes, flour, garlic powder, salt, pepper, ground mustard, and paprika into a food processor and pulse on low until the mixture has turned into the consistency of bread crumbs. Pour the cornflake mixture into a medium-sized bowl.
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Step 8

Crack the eggs into another medium-sized bowl and add the water. Whisk the two ingredients together until combined.
Step 9
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Step 9

Coating the chicken is going to be a double-dredge process. Dredge a piece of chicken through the egg mixture. Let the egg drip from the chicken, and then dredge the chicken through the cornflake mixture until the chicken is coated. Next, dredge the chicken through the egg and cornflake mixture one more time and set the chicken on a plate. Repeat this step until all the chicken is coated.
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Step 10

Air fry the chicken. Spray the air fryer basket with cooking spray or oil. Place as many chicken pieces in your air fryer as you can manage without crowding the basket. We could fit about 11 small pieces of chicken in our air fryer. Drizzle 1 tablespoon of oil over the chicken and cook chicken for 4 minutes, flip and cook for an additional 4 minutes or until golden brown and crispy. The second cook time could vary based on what air fryer you use. Repeat this step until all the chicken is cooked.
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Step 11

Place the crispy chicken into a large mixing bowl, drizzle ½ cup of hot honey over the chicken, and gently toss the chicken with the honey. If you would like more hot honey, add more honey!
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Step 12

Top the salad with the dressing and then the hot honey chicken and serve.

Tips and Warnings

  • Layer this salad however you would like! If we are serving this salad immediately, we like to have all of our vegetables on the bottom of a large bowl (except the avocado). Then, we dress the lettuce and top it all with chicken and chunks of avocado.
  • If we are serving this salad later or making it for meal prep, we keep the salad, dressing, and chicken all separate until right before serving.
  • The double dredge is important if you want to end up with very crispy chicken.
  • Keep in mind that everybody dredges differently. If you run out of the egg mixture, it could be because you used a different-sized egg or didn’t allow the egg to drip off for long enough. If you run out of egg mixture, just whisk up another egg. If you run out of cornflake mixture, you can also make more cornflake mixture!
  • How large or small you cut your chicken will determine how long it needs to cook in the air fryer. Feel free to cut your chicken into larger chunks, it will just take a bit longer.
  • Air fryers and air fryer users can vary greatly. Some air fryers are stronger, have different temperature settings, etc. Get your temperature as close as you can to 370-375ºF.
  • Don’t skip the oil in this recipe. The oil is an essential ingredient to air fry as it circulates in the air fryer and fries the chicken.

Ingredient

  • Garlic cloves
    Garlic cloves
    1
  • Large eggs
    Large eggs
    3
  • Medium cucumber
    Medium cucumber
    0.5
  • Large carrot
    Large carrot
    1
  • Water
    Water
    18.48 ml
  • Granulated sugar
    Granulated sugar
    1.23 ml
  • Paprika
    Paprika
    73.93 ml
  • Apple cider vinegar
    Apple cider vinegar
    2.46 ml
  • Garlic powder
    Garlic powder
    123.22 ml
  • Crumbled feta cheese
    Crumbled feta cheese
    113.4 g
  • Large avocados
    Large avocados
    2
  • Honey
    Honey
    118.29 ml
  • Cherry tomatoes
    Cherry tomatoes
    473.18 ml
  • 2% greek yogurt
    2% greek yogurt
    59.15 ml
  • All-purpose flour or 1:1 gluten-free
    All-purpose flour or 1:1 gluten-free
    59.15 ml
  • Avocado oil or olive oil
    Avocado oil or olive oil
    48.06 ml
  • Boneless skinless chicken breast
    Boneless skinless chicken breast
    6.8 kg
  • Coarse salt
    Coarse salt
    123.22 ml
  • Corn flakes
    Corn flakes
    946.35 ml
  • Cracked black pepper
    Cracked black pepper
    4.93 ml
  • Dried chives
    Dried chives
    9.86 ml
  • Ground black pepper
    Ground black pepper
    1.23 ml
  • Ground mustard
    Ground mustard
    73.93 ml
  • Red pepper flakes or 6 thai chiles minced with seeds
    Red pepper flakes or 6 thai chiles minced with seeds
    9.86 ml
  • Romaine lettuce mix
    Romaine lettuce mix
    113.4 g
  • Sea salt
    Sea salt
    2.46 ml

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