Tons of garlic and a touch of sweet make these Garlic Honey Chicken Thighs perfect for any dinner!
Chicken and garlic: two ingredients you will invariably find in our kitchen. This household loves us some garlic and chicken and recently they came together for some Garlic Chicken Piccata which was uber tasty. Then I realized that although we use garlic in nearly all of our dishes, we don’t have many garlic chicken recipes. >Gasp< Therefore, I give you these Garlic Honey Chicken Thighs. 
The past 6 weeks have been pretty amazing, crazy, exhausting, and did I mention amazing? It’s hard to believe our little human has been with us for that long already! We’re incredibly lucky that she is a really great baby, but even a great baby doesn’t leave us as much time as we used to have to cook. That’s why I love super easy chicken dishes like this and our Maple Soy Glazed Chicken thighs that allow us to eat well while caring for an itty bitty human.
This dish is super easy and requires pretty simple ingredients that are found in most kitchens. No brown sugar? No problem! Did you know you can make your own brown sugar from scratch? 
First, just a quick sear of the chicken in some butter,
then creating a butter, garlic, brown sugar, honey, and oregano sauce,
and finished in the oven.
Do you see that sauce? It’s amazing. Like eat by the spoonful amazing. Garlicky, sweet, deliciousness.
We served these little beauties with some 10 Minute Garlic Kale. Did I mention how much this household loves garlic? 😉
Garlic Honey Chicken Thighs
Ingredients
- 6 bone in chicken thighs
- 6 garlic cloves minced
- 3 tablespoons salted butter divided
- 1/4 cup brown sugar* lightly packed
- 1 1/2 tablespoons honey
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp onion powder
- 2 tsp dried oregano
- salt and pepper to season
- 1-2 tablespoons fresh parsley, chopped
Instructions
- Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees.
- Season chicken thighs with salt and pepper to taste, then season with onion and garlic powder.
- In a large sauté pan melt 2 tablespoons of butter on medium high heat. Add chicken skin side down and sear 2-3 minutes on each side. Remove from pan and set aside.
- Add 1 tablespoon of butter to pan and turn heat down to medium. Add garlic and sauté until fragrant, about 1-2 minutes. Add honey, brown sugar, and oregano and stir until combined. Remove pan from heat.
- Return chicken (skin side up) to the pan and roast in oven for 25-30 minutes until chicken is cooked through (internal temp of 175 degrees).
- Garnish with parsley and serve immediately.
Notes
Love chicken thighs!! So much more flavor! These flavors sound amazing. Will be using honey from my parents farm to try out your recipe!
we use thighs alot here and this is a keeper I really love the flavors you chose and the kids will love these too
Mmm, I love chicken thighs! These sound so savory yet sweet. Love the combo of ingredients here!
Garlic and honey go so well together on chicken. This is how we make ours too!
With a combination of garlic, honey, sugar and a little herbs that sauce has to be super tasty!
Another great chicken recipe to add to my menu!
You can’t have too many ways to prepare chicken … and honey & garlic? There’s a winner flavor combination!
This dish looks amazing, juicy and moist. My family to enjoy such meals.
Those chicken thighs look perfect! My hubby would love this dish.
Chicken thighs are our favorite chicken part. We believe they are super versatile – you can’t dry them out and they soak up all the yummy seasonings and liquids you put to them. I love the sound of the honey plus garlic — great flavors. It sounds a bit lit our recipe when we use a bit of soy along with the honey. YUM!! Great recipe for any night of the week.
Honey garlic is one of my favourite flavour combinations of all time. Every Friday night at our home is order in pizza night and I always order some chicken wings too. And, you guess it, they are always honey garlic. I’m loving the big, chunky garlic in that sauce. Looks so good!
I love Friday night at your house!!
This was one of the best chicken recipes I have ever made!! I have shared it with everyone at work. Love love love 🙂
So glad to hear it!
The sauce sounds sooooo good. I love that you use brown sugar as it is one of my favorites with savory dishes!
Mine too!
I love garlic and the honey will be a nice offset the garlic’s spiciness. Perfect easy weeknight meal that has loads of flavor and not a lot of fuss.
Easy and delicious is how we roll around here!