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5.29.14

Quick Maple Mustard Chicken Thighs

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Quick maple mustard chicken thighs that everyone in your family will love!  Boneless skinless chicken thighs with a kid friendly paleo sauce cooked in a cast iron skillet, ready in 15 minutes!  Serve over roasted sweet potatoes and your favorite veggies for the perfect weeknight meal.

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Quick dinners are all the rage over here, and chicken thighs might as well be the air we breathe!  Slight exaggeration? Okay fine, I’ll include grass fed burgers in there as well.  Nothing like breathing in a chicken thigh and a burger at the same time, especially if it can be done in under 20 minutes!

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So what was I talking about?  Quick dinner recipes, I did not forget.  Marinades are fine and the slow cooker is great too, but you see, I have no memory sometimes and both of those things require planning ahead, remembering the plan, and carving out time in the morning to act on that plan.  So I hear you, I might just be lazy.  But maybe I just prefer to live on the edge when it comes to flavoring my meat.  Some days you just don’t want to commit 8 hours in advance, or more.

So this recipe was born.  Out of laziness and a desperate desire to branch out from just butter and salt.  Look, I love butter (and ghee), and that’s why I kept it in the recipe.  But it’s spruced up now, and we like.  We all liked it a lot!  And asked for seconds, which will have to happen next week, because there are 5 of us after all and we’re all damn hungry.

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Quick Maple Mustard Chicken Chicken Thighs

Quick maple mustard chicken thighs that everyone in your family will love! Boneless skinless chicken thighs with a paleo sauce cooked in a cast iron skillet. This recipe is completely paleo and ready in 15 minutes! Serve over you roasted sweet potatoes and your favorite veggies for the perfect weeknight meal.
Author: Michele Rosen
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 15 minutes
Course: Chicken
Cuisine: Paleo
Servings: 5 servings
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Ingredients

  • 1.5 lbs boneless skinless chicken thighs
  • 3 tbsp ghee or pastured butter
  • 1 tbsp pure maple syrup
  • 1 tbsp brown mustard
  • 1/2 tsp lemon juice
  • 1/8 tsp salt or to taste
  • Extra dash of salt

Instructions

  1. Heat a large, heavy skillet (like cast iron) over med/med-hi heat
  2. In a small bowl, combine the ghee or butter, maple syrup, mustard, lemon juice, and salt. Mix well until smooth
  3. Coat the bottom of the skillet with about a tbsp of the mixture. Add each chicken thigh to the pan without overlapping, and sprinkle the tops with an extra dash of salt. Then, spoon a little of the mixture over the top of each piece of chicken
  4. Continue to cook for about 5 minutes on the first side until browned, then flip. Any leftover maple mustard mixture can be brushed over the chicken as it finishes cooking.
  5. After both sides are browned and cooked through, remove from heat and serve with your favorite sides, or over a salad. Enjoy!

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More than a little into running and paleo recipes (yoga now too!) but I'm not here to rain on your grains (or anything else) so come along for the ride! I do a little too much of everything (except cleaning), and I enjoy laughing at myself. As long as I'm the one making the jokes, that is. Just kidding. So bring me your angst, your appetite and your frying pan and climb aboard!

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  1. txa1265 says

    May 29, 2014 at 12:31 pm

    Great recipe and post!

    I could eat sweet potatoes every day! I was disappointed last night we had steaks but I had used all the sweet potatoes so we had a grilled veggie mix instead. Still good, but … 🙂

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    • Michele says

      May 29, 2014 at 12:59 pm

      yum grilled veggies are great too! especially in warmer weather 🙂

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      • txa1265 says

        May 29, 2014 at 4:45 pm

        So true – we went straight from oven roasted to grilled over the last few weeks 🙂

        Reply
  2. hjones646 says

    May 29, 2014 at 4:27 pm

    i like squash, i hate beets tho, however i will juice them in my juicer with more over powering things to mask the taste.

    Reply
  3. Lisa @ Running Out Of Wine says

    May 29, 2014 at 5:13 pm

    Yum! Another great meal…I love butternut squash! You are definitely making a case for this paleo thing:) Your recipes sound so delicious!

    Reply
    • Michele says

      May 29, 2014 at 6:39 pm

      Thanks! let me know if you try it 🙂

      Reply
  4. get help windows 10 says

    December 17, 2018 at 4:13 am

    5 stars
    This looks so delicious and i can’t wait to make it, this meal is really healthy for every people. all type of the windows solution are available in there homepage.

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