Best Baked Chicken Thighs with Maple Dijon Mustard Sauce – so easy and so good! Your family will love this and rave about this recipe for days!
A perfect, easy recipe if you don’t have much free time. These Chicken Thighs with Maple Dijon Sauce require only 5 ingredients, the whole dish takes only 10 minutes to prepare, and then about 40 minutes to bake (while you drink a cocktail or a glass of wine) – super easy, don’t you think?! Easily double the recipe for a bigger baking pan. And you get some of the best baked chicken thighs you’ll ever make!
To make maple dijon sauce, whisk together Dijon mustard, maple syrup and rice vinegar:
Generously salt and pepper the chicken thighs and place them in the casserole dish:
Spoon the maple-dijon sauce over the chicken thighs:
Turn the chicken thighs over several times to make sure the sauce coats the chicken evenly.
Baked uncovered for 40 minutes until chicken is fully cooked (no longer pink in the center and registers 165 F on meat thermometer).
These Chicken Thighs with Maple-Dijon Mustard Sauce require only 5 ingredients, the whole dish takes only 10 minutes to prepare, and then about 40 minutes to bake (while you drink a cocktail or a glass of wine) - super easy, don't you think?! These will be some of the best (and easiest!) baked chicken thighs you'll ever make!
- 1/2 cup Dijon mustard
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- 1 tablespoon rice vinegar
- 5 chicken thighs bone-in, skin-on
- salt and pepper
- Preheat the oven to 450º F.
- Mix together the Dijon mustard, maple syrup and rice vinegar.
- Salt and pepper the thighs, then place them in the baking dish - I used 2.5 quart oval casserole dish ( 13 inches * 9 inches *4 inches deep).
- Pour the maple-mustard mixture over the thighs, turning them a couple times to fully coat them.
- Place the baking dish with chicken thighs, uncovered, into the oven, and bake for 40 minutes or until a meat thermometer reads 165ºF. Baste the chicken thighs with the sauce 2 or 3 times during the last 20 minutes of baking.
- Serve the chicken thighs immediately, on plates, topped with the remaining sauce from the baking dish.
Adapted from WittyInTheCity.com
I have apple cider vinegar, white vinegar, red wine vinegar. Can any of those substitute for the rice vinegar? I can’t see myself using it for anything but this.
Excellent but layer pan with tinfoil if you use Pyrex
Coating will really bake in your dish
To make this Keto friendly, I used Mrs. Butterworh sugar free maple syrup.
My sauce burnt on the pan, and there was nothing left to baste. What did I do wrong?
Maybe your oven got too hot. Maybe try to bake the chicken thighs at 375 F or 400 F next time.
I’ve found that recipes such as these burn if everything is spread too far apart on a baking sheet. I have better luck if I use a baking dish like corningware or a dutch oven and things are closer together.
I made this “dirty” Keto (because of the sugar free aspect) by using Maple Grove Farms brand Sugar Free Maple Syrup. It doesn’t taste artificial like many brands do. You don’t get a lot of liquid to baste with until pretty close to the end…but just be patient–it’ll come. I finished it off by broiling for about 5 minutes. These can be frozen for meal prep as well…just use a little snack size ziplock for some of the sauce and freeze that as well. Pull out a thigh and a bag of sauce…Boom! Instant main course! Thanks for the recipe.
You are very welcome! Thank you for your feedback!
Can you use any type of syrup are does it have to be maple syrup.
I only tried this with maple syrup and it works really well!
Is there a way to do these in the crockpot?
Super!
Thank you!
Going to try. Can you use skinless thighs?
Yes, you can use skinless and boneless chicken thighs.