Dress your chicken for success! Sweet N’ Spicy Chicken Breasts will become a fast favorite, lighting up your dinner runway of chicken dressing options. Step right this way as your plump, juicy chicken breasts get all glammed-up in a sweet and spicy sauce made of brown sugar, hot sauce, and apple cider vinegar with a touch of garlic, before getting baked to golden-brown perfection. These sauntering Sweet N’ Spicy Chicken Breasts will be all the rage at your next star-studded event or quiet meal for two. Whatever the case, let your chicken strut its stuff in all your dinner catwalks. It will stun you and leave everyone smiling. Work it!
Ingredients
For the sauce:
- 2/3 cup brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons hot sauce
- 2 teaspoons garlic, minced
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar or white vinegar
- 1/3 cup water
For the chicken:
- 4 chicken breasts, boneless and skinless, pounded to even thickness
- salt, to taste
- black pepper, to taste
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- green onions, to taste, sliced, for garnish
Directions
Step 1 –Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
Step 2 –Grease a 9×13-inch baking dish.
Step 3 –In a medium saucepan over medium heat, add the brown sugar, the hot sauce, the garlic, 1 teaspoon of the salt, the apple cider vinegar, and the water and whisk to combine. Bring to a boil and cook, stirring constantly, about 3-4 minutes.
Step 4 –Season both sides of the chicken breasts with the salt and the pepper.
Step 5 –In a large skillet over medium heat, heat the olive oil.
Step 6 –Add the chicken breasts to the olive oil and cook until just browned, about 1-2 minutes per side.
Step 7 –Transfer the browned chicken to the prepared baking dish.
Step 8 –Use a pastry brush to evenly add the sauce all over the browned chicken breasts. Reserve the remaining sauce.
Step 9 –Bake the chicken breasts until they reach an internal temperature of 165 degrees F, about 20-25 minutes.
Step 10 –Evenly pour the remaining sauce over the chicken breasts.
Step 11 –Serve the chicken breasts garnished with the green onions.
