crunchy honey and garlic chicken

A massive, massive thank you to everyone who went out and bought our new eBook – can’t quite believe the sales. You’ve made a fat man very wheezy / excited. If you’re still on the fence, you can find a link to it right here.

Fair warning, today’s recipe for crunchy honey and garlic chicken is also served with garlic green beans, so if you’re planning on getting fresh with someone after, better take a packet of Smints or a beaker of hydrochloric acid. You can leave off the green beans if you like, we’re just trying to increase the amount of speed food on our plate because there’s been a fair few foamy comments from the resident gashcrashers lately about not following the plan. Remember, we leave it up to you to decide what works for you.

You do, however, need to get used to seeing this.

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Classy right? We’re going to post it every Thursday with an update of our weight loss. I want you lot to see our diet as it goes through the year, with the aim of losing 150lb throughout 2016. Sounds like a lot, but if we lose 2lb a week every week for 37 or so weeks, we’ll be done by October, just in time to put it all back on and start copying and pasting this article back for 2017. I know so many of us are starting a New Year / New Me routine – so all the very best to you.

See, whilst we’ve been eating healthy dinners, we let ourselves down with all the little extras, like the odd chocolate bar or taking November and December off in their entirety to gorge. At some point all that eating becomes less about ‘bulking up for the winter months’ and more about being a big fat chubby bummer. If I may be serious for a moment, we’re both terribly sick of being so out of shape. I get up in the morning and I’m making old/fat noises right from the beginning – I audibly OOOH when I sit down in a chair and it’s not just air escaping from my rolls.I’d certainly enjoy getting on a plane without everyone with a spare seat next to them wincing and sighing dramatically as I approach. My knees hurt sometimes – I’m not surprised, they’re probably around 75% dust these days from having to shift my corpulent frame around. I’ve always described myself as hilariously obese because well, there’s lots of funny things to do with being fat. For example, it’s difficult not to titter when you get out of a drained bath and there’s a loud suction noise like a big fart. It’s chucklesome watching checkout staff battling to fold a shirt without having to draft someone else in to assist. I’ve had to come up with more and more outlandish excuses to get the lift two stories up in our workplace rather than take the steps. But, it can’t continue.

Realistically, if I carry on ignoring the weight, I’ll end up dead, and frankly, that doesn’t sit too well with me. Paul’s promised that if I do die suddenly, he’ll see out his days wearing black and wailing into a hanky, though I know that’s bollocks – he’ll be on Grindr as ‘free4evabigcoxwanted‘ before they’ve even called time of death. Fat fucker. Not that he’s any better – I know he misses being able to see his feet, for example. He would also like to get through a working day without having to spend 67% of it pulling up his trousers and hoiking his boxers out of his arse-crack. We both find it genuinely confusing that the fatter we get, the less our clothes seem to fit properly. On that topic, we’re sick of having to get our clothes from online marquee specialists, Jacamo, however fabulous their customer service is. I’d like to get through at least one bout of anal sex without being troubled by wondering how much it would cost to have a home defibrillator fitted. And so on. There was a far crasser comment, but I deleted it on grounds of decency. What’s happening to me? 

For the blog, nowt changes! We’ll post as many recipes as we can – we always feel so guilty when we can’t give you a load of guff before the recipe, but look, if it means we post more food, we’ll do our best. Please – share the blog, the group, the book – whatever you like, spread the word. If you make a recipe from here, take a photo of it and share a link! If we can help in any way, just get in touch. We might be slow in replying but we always get there eventually. Wish us luck then!

Oh, before I go. We’re spending the afternoon doing something I’d never thought I would do in a million years – turning down cock, giving money to people, being pleasant, driving a Smart car. A bloody Smart car! Paul’s been itching for one ever since his sister used to work in a dealership and he saw one in action. I…hate them. Bloody hate them! I can see their merits, absolutely, but it’s not a bloody car. It’s a joke on wheels. I’m 6ft 1″ (possibly horizontally as well as vertically) and Paul, whilst much shorter, is approximately the size of a rain-soaked settee. We look bloody ridiculous climbing out of a Smart car, like that old circus trope with the clowns piling out of the Mini. I’m surprised the horn doesn’t play calliope music instead of a toot. Also, the clip of it driving along. I can’t shake the feeling that if I ran my hand over the roof I’d feel a giant electric connector like a dodgem car. A dodgem car at least has a purpose, even if that purpose is to be kicked around by someone with one eyebrow and a name like someone sneezed some consonants into a hankie. A friend of mine once got fingered and then stabbed behind a dodgems, which in Newcastle is considered an extended courtship. She didn’t even get a highly-flammable teddy of Bart Simpson in the wrong colour shirt afterwards. Fun times. If you see a pair of fat men squeezed like the last two Tetris pieces into a car on the A1 tonight, give us a wave. You’ll know it’s us because of the cloud of blue smoke pouring out the back whilst the engine overheats trying to shift forty stone (combined, I hasten to add) of Jacamo-clad love muscle up a slight incline.

Anyway, that’s quite enough of all this silliness. Tonight’s recipe of crunchy honey and garlic chicken can be made syn-free if you don’t fart on with the sauce. This makes enough for two.

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to make crunchy honey and garlic chicken you will need:

  • 2 chicken breasts
  • 25g panko (5 syns)
  • 1 tsp black pepper
  • 0.5 tsp each salt, nutmeg, ginger, thyme, sage and paprika (if you leave out anything, sage and thyme are the ones to get rid of)
  • pinch of cayenne pepper
  • 2 tsp dried garlic 
  • 2 eggs
  • 3 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
  • 3 tbsp low-sodium soy sauce
  • 1 tbsp honey (2.5 syns)

God I almost dread posting anything with panko in it these days because I get so many people asking what panko is. IT’S BREADCRUMBS. You can buy it from Tesco or other supermarkets. You could get rid of it and use a blitzed up breadbun if you prefer. But please, that’s what bloody panko is.

to make crunchy honey and garlic chicken you should:

  • if you’re using chicken from our Musclefood deal or the butcher (i.e. if you have big, steamy, pouting breasts instead of chicken breasts that look like someone’s took an arm off an octopus) – you can make it go twice as far by cutting the chicken into halves horizontally – if you’re using chicken from the supermarket, wrap it in cling film and pound the meat using a rolling pin until it’s about 1cm thick (this helps to ensure it cooks evenly) – there’s really nowt better than beating your meat in the kitchen
  • mix together the panko, peppers, salt, herbs and garlic in a bowl
  • in another bowl, crack the two eggs and add 4 tbsp of water and whisk together like you’re going out of business
  • meanwhile, stick the oven up to 220 degrees making sure your baking sheet is in there – having a hot sheet helps to crisp up the chicken and make it crunchy
  • when the oven is hot enough, dip each chicken breast into the egg mixture and then into the breadcrumbs – coating evenly
  • place onto the hot baking sheet and spray with frylight
  • bake in the oven for about 15 minutes – don’t open the door!
  • to make the sauce (optional!) 
  • spray a small frying pan with a little frylight over a medium-high heat
  • add the chopped garlic and stir constantly for about a minute
  • add the soy sauce and honey and reduce the heat to a simmer, and stir occasionally for 1-2 minutes

We served it with a few roasties done in the Actifry and green beans, which we just cooked off with some more minced garlic and chilli flakes in the pan that we cooked the sauce with. Simple! J

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7 thoughts on “crunchy honey and garlic chicken

  1. That is one of the best things I’ve read in ages! First time to your blog and I bloody love it! I only wish I still lived in North Yorkshire as I’d be off up the A1 looking for that smart car ha ha ? good luck with the diet guys and keep us posted with your progress and lots of recipes! Xx

  2. The crunchy garlic honey chicken the ultimate Sat night dinner .. really ticked all the boxes served with spicy sweet potato wedges … bloody moreish

  3. That’s cheered me up on a dull Sunday morning! Thanks guys. I will definitely be trying that recipe this week. i joined sw last weds, I’m praying I haven’t ballsed it up this time. I weigh in on Wednesday ? This is the biggest I’ve ever been! I’m starting to struggle even moving at the moment. Completely my own fault of course, comfort eating and drinking when life throws a big pile of ? At you which seems to be my storie this last year. So new year, new way of looking at life. Basically, get off of my ass and do something!

    I married my husband last August and he’s 9 years younger, 4 stone lighter, and owns abs of steel! Lucky me! But them abs of steel are getting seriously pissed with the “I’m fat, I have nothing to wear, I can’t walk up that hill” whining 24/7. It’s very hard changing your lifestyle when abs of steel doesn’t need to, he still likes to drink, still likes pigging out on chocolate, chrisps, and all the lovely unhealthy food that is the enemy! But in saying that, he knows that I can’t be living like that anymore, so he’s been helping me out loads this week with hiding his stash of enemy foods! In fact he’s currently in the kitchen making me a sw lunch bless him.
    So to cut this long storie short. I will be trying this recipe out this week and I even think abs of steel will love it. So thanks guys for your help, and your extremely funny blog! It’s nice to know we’re all in this together xx

  4. Going to try this tomorrow, thank you! After stumbling across this website recently I must say I love you guys! You even made me go and buy a kindle (Much to me hating them!) just in order to buy to buy your book! I love love it.. thank you!

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