Pistachio Chicken

This pistachio chicken is insanely delicious. It's crispy, crunchy, sweet, and finger-lickin' good. You will LOVE it!

You guys, I've been holding out on you. Life has been a bit of a gong show lately getting ready to meet our little pumpkin. Like, bananas crazy.

I hope you can forgive me.

I'm about 100% sure that once you try this pistachio chicken you'll forget all about me holding out on you and just want to lick the sweet and sticky sauce off your fingers every day from here on out. Pistachio chicken is so where it's at.

It's also a super healthy meal that's a bit ridiculously easy to make. If you can put chicken in your oven, you can make this. I like to serve it with some cauliflower rice on the side, but if you like regular rice better, you could totally swap that.

So what makes pistachio chicken so amazing?

1. The skin gets all crispy after it hangs out under the broiler for a few minutes.
2. It's salty and crunchy from the pistachios.
3. Honey. Sweet delicious honey. ‘Nuff said.
4. Chicken thighs, which are about 5 bazillion times tastier than chicken breasts.
5. All these things come together to make the tastiest darn chicken around.

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Pistachio Chicken Recipe

Prep: 10 minutes mins

Cook: 15 minutes mins

Total: 25 minutes mins

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This pistachio chicken is insanely delicious. It's crispy, crunchy, sweet and finger lickin' good. You will LOVE it!

4 servings

Ingredients

• ▢ ⅓ cup shelled pistachios (ground in your food processor (some chunks are ok))
• ▢ 8 boneless chicken thighs (or 4 small chicken breasts)
• ▢ ½ teaspoon EACH: sea salt and pepper
• ▢ 1 tablespoon olive oil
• ▢ Cooking spray oil
• ▢ ¼ cup honey

Instructions 

• Preheat your oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Add the shelled pistachios to your food processor and blend until they're mostly ground – a few chunks are ok.
  ⅓ cup shelled pistachios
  
• Dry the chicken with paper towels and then season them with salt and pepper. Drizzle with the olive oil.
  8 boneless chicken thighs, 1 tablespoon olive oil, ½ teaspoon EACH: sea salt and pepper
  
• Place the ground pistachios into a shallow bowl. Working with one piece of chicken at a time, bread the chicken with the ground pistachios.
  
• Move the breaded chicken to the baking dish. Press any remaining pistachios onto the tops of the chicken and then spray the chicken with cooking oil.
  Cooking spray oil
  
• Bake the chicken for 15-18 minutes, or until they reach an internal temperature of 165 degrees Fahrenheit. Once the chicken is cooked, drizzle the honey over the top and serve right away.
  ¼ cup honey
  

Nutrition

Serving: 2 chicken thighs, Calories: 423kcal (21%), Carbohydrates: 20g (7%), Protein: 46g (92%), Fat: 17g (26%), Saturated Fat: 3g (19%), Polyunsaturated Fat: 4g, Monounsaturated Fat: 8g, Trans Fat: 0.04g, Cholesterol: 215mg (72%), Sodium: 493mg (21%), Potassium: 668mg (19%), Fiber: 1g (4%), Sugar: 18g (20%), Vitamin A: 81IU (2%), Vitamin C: 0.4mg, Calcium: 33mg (3%), Iron: 2mg (11%)

© Author Kristen Stevens

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