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Honey garlic chicken

Name: Honey garlic chicken
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 18 min
Total time: 23 min
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: 7 thighs chicken thigh; 1 tbsp canola oil; 3/4 tsp salt; 1/2 tsp black pepper; 3 tbsp honey; 5 cloves garlic, minced; 3 tbsp soy sauce; 4 tsp apple cider vinegar; 1/4 cup water; 2 green onion, sliced

The 20-minute glaze that ends weeknight indecision: seared chicken thighs in honey, garlic and soy reduced to lacquer. Four pantry ingredients, restaurant sheen.

Time: 23 min (5 prep + 18 cook)
Servings: 4
Per serving: 330 kcal
Protein: 34 g

Both directions are legitimate — the score measures fullness per calorie, not virtue. Every version is the same dish, rebalanced.

Ingredients

7 thighs chicken thigh700 g
1 tbsp canola oil15 g
3/4 tsp salt4 g
1/2 tsp black pepper1 g

Glaze

3 tbsp honey60 g
5 cloves garlic, minced20 g
3 tbsp soy sauce45 g
4 tsp apple cider vinegar20 g
1/4 cup water60 g

2 green onion, sliced15 g

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Steps

Season the thighs and sear them in the oil, 5–6 minutes a side, until deeply golden. Remove.
Lower the heat, cook the garlic 30 seconds, then add the honey, soy, vinegar and water.
Simmer to a syrup, 3–4 minutes, then return the chicken and turn it in the glaze until coated.
Scallions on top. Rice or greens underneath; the glaze wants something to land on.

Why this score

solidly filling

No single route carries this one — a moderate amount of protein, volume and fiber.

Three routes to fullness — one is enough

42% of kcal

67% water

1 g/Mcal

What pulls it down

How scores work

Computed on the finished dish, not an average of the parts: 1319 kcal goes into the pot, 940 g of ingredients comes out as ~800 g of food → 165 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water, and energy density is the score's biggest lever — so we show the math. Full formula here.

Per

Calories: 165
Protein: (42%); 17 g
Fat: (40%); 7 g
Carbohydrates: (18%); 7 g
of which sugar: 6 g
Fiber: <1 g
Sodium: 573 mg

Percentages are the share of calories from each macronutrient.

Computed from the ingredients' USDA data — nothing typed by hand. Every number is traceable, every score recomputable.

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Photo: AI-generated. Nutrition and score are computed from the ingredients with the published formula — this recipe hasn't been kitchen-tested by us yet.