This walnut-crusted hen served with honey mustard glaze is altogether healthful and savory, crisp and saucy, and really simple to make. It’s every thing you need dinner to be, whether or not you serve it as an off-the-cuff meal or for a particular vacation gathering.
I make this dish each spring season and through the years, I’ve perfected the recipe to assist make sure the coating sticks AND doesn’t style soggy. The toasted walnuts, tender + juicy hen, and tangy-sweet honey mustard are made for one another, and it’s really versatile sufficient for all events:
- It’s fancy sufficient for firm and holidays. Spruce it up with recent parsley and serve it with home made biscuits, rice, steamed greens, and/or a recent leafy salad.
- It’s additionally easy, but particular sufficient for a Sunday dinner with simply the household.
- Lastly, this walnut hen makes for a fast, low-key meal on weeknights. And any leftovers maintain like a dream—a fast reheat within the oven brings the crisp coating again to life.
Walnut-Crusted Rooster: What to Count on
- Texture: Served heat out of the oven, you’ll get pleasure from crunchy chopped walnuts, tender juicy bites of hen, and sticky candy glaze with each scrumptious mouthful. Should you crave texture, this recipe completely delivers. FYI: these browned crispy walnut bits on the backside of the pan are one of the best half. Don’t go away them behind!
- Taste: It is a balanced dish. The seasoned hen, the nutty walnuts, and the tangy sweetness of the honey mustard glaze work so effectively collectively. The white wine within the hen marinade provides depth of taste, however when you’d wish to skip the wine, you possibly can substitute it with hen inventory. And be happy to interchange the walnuts with pecans.
- Ease: It is a recipe for cooks of any talent degree. Marinate the hen, coat it within the nut combination, after which bake. Serve with a 2-ingredient glaze.
- Time: Put aside about half-hour for hands-on prep, plus at the least 4 hours to in a single day for marinating the hen. For a good faster hen dish (no marinating required), attempt my skillet apple cider hen.
Don’t Skip Marinating the Rooster
Earlier than coating the hen in walnuts, you’ll need to marinate it for at the least 4 hours and as much as 12 hours. The marinade combines olive oil, Dijon mustard, dry white wine, garlic, and dried thyme, and serves 2 functions:
- It provides scrumptious taste to the hen.
- It helps the walnut coating stick.
Should you don’t need to use wine, you possibly can substitute low-sodium hen broth.
After marinating, you’ll coat the hen in walnuts, flour, salt, and pepper.
Success Tip: The finer you chop the nuts, the extra they’ll stick and keep on the hen. Be sure you lower them up further superb.
Sear & Bake the Walnut Rooster
Sear the hen earlier than baking it. Why are you doing this? First, it locks within the marinade’s taste. It additionally helps make sure the walnuts stick with the hen, and provides a pleasant crunch, too.
Switch the seared hen to the oven and bake.
Success Tip: Make cleanup a breeze with an oven-safe skillet that may deal with all of the cooking, from searing to baking. I exploit an oven-safe skillet in the identical approach for lemon thyme hen, cilantro lime hen, and garlic hen.
Whereas the hen bakes, whip up the glaze by mixing Dijon mustard and honey collectively. If the walnut-crusted hen had been an ice cream sundae, the honey mustard glaze could be the very vital whipped cream + cherry on high—it simply completes the entire dish!
Serve With:
Should you want concepts for aspect dishes that pair effectively with walnut-crusted hen, listed below are a few of my favorites: home made biscuits or dinner rolls, brown or wild rice, steamed greens corresponding to asparagus, inexperienced beans, or broccoli, and/or a spring greens salad.
I hope you get pleasure from this recipe as a lot as our household has through the years. A well-recognized dish can remind you of residence, however solely one of the best can take you there.
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Walnut-Crusted Rooster
Prep Time: 4 hours, half-hour (consists of marinating)
Prepare dinner Time: 25 minutes
Complete Time: 5 hours
Yield: serves 4
Class: Dinner
Methodology: Cooking
Delicacies: American
Description
This walnut-crusted hen served with honey mustard glaze is altogether healthful and savory, crisp and saucy, and really simple to make. The dish pairs splendidly with steamed greens, rice, and/or a spring greens salad.
Directions
- In a big bowl, whisk the olive oil, mustard, white wine, garlic, and dried thyme collectively. Add the hen, turning to coat. Cowl tightly and refrigerate for at the least 4 hours and as much as 12 hours.
- In a shallow dish corresponding to a 9-inch sq. baking pan or a pie dish, mix the walnuts, flour, salt, and pepper collectively. Take away the hen, shake off any extra marinade, and dip either side of the hen within the walnut combination. Be sure both sides is generously coated.
- Preheat the oven to 425°F (218°C).
- Warmth 1 Tablespoon of olive oil in an oven-safe skillet* over medium warmth. Add the hen and sear for two minutes, 1 minute on both sides. Switch skillet to the oven and bake, coated loosely with aluminum foil, for 15–20 minutes or till the hen is totally cooked by means of. (Rooster is taken into account accomplished when an instantaneous learn thermometer reads the middle of the thickest half as at the least 165°F (74°C).)
- Whisk the glaze elements collectively and serve with hen. Garnish hen with recent parsley, if desired.
- Leftovers maintain effectively within the fridge for just a few days. You may reheat on the range over medium warmth, within the microwave, or within the oven.
Notes
- Make Forward Directions: You may marinate the hen for as much as 12 hours in step 1.
- Particular Instruments (affiliate hyperlinks): 9-inch Sq. Baking Pan (or different shallow dish) | Solid-Iron Skillet | Tongs | Prompt-Learn Thermometer
- Walnuts: The finer you chop the walnuts, the extra probably they’ll adhere and stick with the hen. Be happy to interchange the walnuts with pecans, if desired.
- Skillet: Should you don’t have an oven-safe skillet, merely use the skillet you have got and switch seared hen to a parchment paper-lined or silicone baking mat-lined baking pan to bake.
- This recipe is a 20+ yr household favourite, tweaked through the years and initially from an previous Bon Appetit journal challenge.
