Healthy weight loss recipe – Honey and orange glazed chicken

This delicious honey and orange glazed chicken is a quick and healthy lunch or dinner recipe.

Upneet Pansare 


Chicken is a delicious and high-protein source of nutrition that you can include in your daily diet. The health benefits of chicken are plenty — it plays a vital role in building muscles, relieving stress, reducing PMS symptoms, keeping your bones healthy, boosting immunity and promoting heart health. The way you cook chicken is also crucial in determining how healthy it is. Grilled or baked chicken is always better for weight loss than fried chicken but proceed with caution when having grilled food like tandoori chicken –tandoori chicken may increase the risk of cancer.  Chicken stews, chicken soups, chicken risotto, chicken with veggies and quinoa, chicken tikka masala are some of the many healthy chicken recipes you can try. In this healthy weight loss recipe of honey and orange glazed chicken recipe, we combine fresh orange juice, fresh orange segments and honey to give the chicken a tasty sweet and sour taste. While you can serve the chicken breast as is, you can also serve it some quinoa which can be prepared by boiling quinoa in chicken broth till the broth is absorbed and the quinoa is fluffy. Read about these health benefits of quinoa  and include this delicious grain in your diet regularly.

Ingredients: 
Boneless chicken breast with skin — 2
Cooking oil — 15 ml
Chopped spring onions — 40 gms
Crushed garlic cloves — 15 gms
Honey — 45 gms
Fresh Orange Juice 60 ml
Orange –1
Dark Soy sauce — 30 ml
Herbs, for garnishing

Method: 
1. Heat oil in a saucepan, and saute the onion and garlic till soft.

2. Add Honey, Dark Soy sauce, orange segments and mix properly till the honey is dissolved.

3. In a baking tray, place the chicken breasts and pour the cooked mixture evenly on the chicken.

4. Bake in a preheated oven at 190 deg c for 45 minutes.

5. Baste with the roast juices in between.

6. Garnish with herbs and serve hot.

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