This walnut crusted rooster served with honey mustard glaze is altogether healthful and savory, crisp and saucy, and really simple to make. It’s all the things 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 rooster, and candy 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 contemporary parsley and serve it with home made biscuits, rice, steamed greens, and/or a contemporary leafy salad.
- It’s additionally easy, but particular sufficient for a Sunday dinner with simply the household.
- Lastly, this walnut rooster 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 Hen: What to Count on
- Texture: Served heat out of the oven, you’ll take pleasure in crunchy chopped walnuts, tender juicy bites of rooster, and sticky candy glaze with each scrumptious mouthful. When 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 depart them behind!
- Taste: It is a balanced dish. The seasoned rooster, the nutty walnuts, and the tangy sweetness of the honey mustard glaze work so properly collectively. The white wine within the rooster marinade provides depth of taste, however if you happen to’d wish to skip the wine, you may substitute it with rooster inventory. And be at liberty to interchange the walnuts with pecans.
- Ease: It is a recipe for cooks of any ability degree. Marinate the rooster, 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 rooster. For a fair faster rooster dish (no marinating required), attempt my skillet apple cider rooster.
Don’t Skip Marinating the Hen
Earlier than coating the rooster 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 two functions:
- It provides scrumptious taste to the rooster.
- It helps the walnut coating stick.
When you don’t need to use wine, you may substitute low sodium rooster broth.
After marinating, you’ll coat the rooster in walnuts, flour, salt, and pepper.
Success Tip: The finer you chop the nuts, the extra they’ll stick and keep on the rooster. Be sure you minimize them up additional fantastic.
Sear & Bake The Walnut Hen
Sear the rooster earlier than baking it. Why are you doing this? First, it locks within the marinade’s taste. It additionally helps make sure the walnuts follow the rooster, and provides a pleasant crunch, too.
Switch the seared rooster to the oven and bake.
Success Tip: Make clear up 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 rooster, cilantro lime rooster, and garlic rooster.
Whereas the rooster bakes, whip up the glaze by mixing dijon mustard and honey collectively. If the walnut crusted rooster have been an ice cream sundae, the honey mustard glaze can be the very vital whipped cream + cherry on prime—it simply completes the entire dish!
Serve With:
When you want concepts for aspect dishes that pair properly with walnut crusted rooster, listed here are a few of my favorites: home made biscuits or dinner rolls, brown or wild rice, steamed greens reminiscent of asparagus, inexperienced beans, or broccoli, and/or a spring greens salad.
I hope you take pleasure in this recipe as a lot as our household has through the years. A well-known dish can remind you of dwelling, however solely one of the best can take you there.
Extra Favourite Dinner Recipes
Walnut-Crusted Hen
Prep Time: 4 hours, half-hour (contains marinating)
Cook dinner Time: 25 minutes
Complete Time: 5 hours
Yield: serves 4
Class: Dinner
Technique: Cooking
Delicacies: American
Description
This walnut crusted rooster 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 rooster, turning to coat. Cowl tightly and refrigerate for at the least 4 hours and as much as 12 hours.
- In a shallow dish reminiscent of a 9-inch sq. baking pan or a pie dish, mix the walnuts, flour, salt, and pepper collectively. Take away the rooster, shake off any extra marinade, and dip each side of the rooster within the walnut combination. Make sure that 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 rooster 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 rooster is absolutely cooked via. (Hen is taken into account achieved when an immediate learn thermometer reads the middle of the thickest half as at the least 165°F (74°C).)
- Whisk the glaze substances collectively and serve with rooster. Garnish rooster with contemporary parsley, if desired.
- Leftovers maintain properly within the fridge for a couple of days. You’ll be able to reheat on the range over medium warmth or within the microwave.
Notes
- Make Forward Directions: You’ll be able to marinate the rooster 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 | On the spot-Learn Thermometer
- Walnuts: The finer you chop the walnuts, the extra doubtless they’ll adhere and follow the rooster. Be at liberty to interchange the walnuts with pecans, if desired.
- Skillet: When you don’t have an oven-safe skillet, merely use the skillet you might have and switch seared rooster 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 difficulty.
