I am a lousy, lazy cook. So when I managed to cobble together something of my own accord that actually tasted really good, I started making it an awful lot. It’s quick, easy, tasty, relatively cheap and pretty healthy despite tasting like a naughty treat. It’s not much of a recipe, granted, but it’s dead good.

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Ingredients

• 1 chicken breast per person (or more if you’re feeling greedy)
• Honey (enough to cover the chicken)
• Rice
• Herbs (whatever your favourites are in whatever quantities you like, I like to use sage, thyme, rosemary and oregano… lots of ‘em!)
• Salt to taste
• Oil (for cooking with)

Method

1. Chop the chicken into bite-sized pieces.
2. Heat up a teaspoon of oil in a frying pan and cook the chicken, stirring occasionally.
3. While that’s cooking, put the rice on, seasoning it with the herbs.
4. When the rice is nearly done and simmering away in the back and the chicken is cooked through, pour in the honey, just enough to cover the chicken and a sprinkling of herbs to taste, and keep stirring until the honey starts to caramelise around the chicken.

Take off the heat and enjoy!

If I’m feeling especially lazy, I put the vegetables in with the rice or with the chicken for extra sweetness. You can try adding cayenne pepper or paprika if you prefer spicier food. I often adapt this recipe into the “bung everything I can find in the larder” recipe, which also works surprisingly well!