Honey Mustard Chicken Thighs Recipe

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Easy baked honey mustard chicken thighs recipe that is simple, quick, and ready in 40 minutes or 25 minutes if baking in air fryer. These baked chicken thighs are made with a honey mustard marinade that makes use of just 6 ingredients. The chicken is tender, moist, and juicy inside, sweet, tangy, and delicious.

This honey mustard marinated chicken thigh is perfect for dinner served with potatoes, and vegetables. For this recipe, you can use bone in or boneless skinless chicken thighs. Let me show you how to make it.

Honey Mustard Chicken Thighs Recipe

This honey mustard chicken thighs recipe is the best! easy, simple, quick, and ready in 40 minutes if baking in the oven and 25 minutes if in the air fryer. I have included both oven and air fryer recipes in this post.

It makes use of 6 simple pantry ingredients that are cheap and you probably have in your pantry.

These baked mustard and honey chicken thighs are packed full of flavor, smells, and taste amazing. It’s sweet, tangy, and yummy. 

The acid in the vinegar tenderizes the chicken making it moist and juicy.

You don’t have to do much as this recipe requires minimal preparation and easy cleanup after cooking.

It’s baked so it’s hands-off once it gets in the oven or air fryer. 

You can adapt this to other chicken parts like drumsticks, wings, and chicken breast.

Honey Mustard Chicken Marinade 

What this Honey mustard chicken marinade does is to make the chicken sweet, tangy, flavorful, meat juicy, and tastier.

It can be made ahead and stored for use later. It keeps well in the fridge or freezer. The ingredients for the marinade are:

Honey

Mustard – Yellow, brown, or dijon mustard.

Paprika

Garlic powder  

Apple cider vinegar

Cayenne pepper – You can substitute with Black pepper.

Olive oil

Add the honey, mustard, garlic, apple cider vinegar, cayenne pepper, salt to a bowl. Whisk together till it’s well combined. It’s ready to be used to marinate chicken.

Ingredients

Chicken thighs – Bone in or Boneless skinless chicken thighs.

Mustard – Yellow, brown, or dijon mustard.

Paprika 

Garlic powder

Apple cider vinegar

Black pepper 

Olive oil

How to Make Honey Mustard Chicken Thighs In The Oven

Add the Paprika, garlic powder, honey, cayenne pepper, mustard, apple cider vinegar, and oil in a bowl. Mix together till well combined.

Clean and pat chicken thighs dry with a kitchen towel.

Add them to a bowl then pour honey mustard marinade on it.

Cover the bowl and put it in the fridge to marinate for 1-2 hours or longer if you have the time.

Bring out the marinated chicken thighs and leave it to get to room temperature. 

Arrange the chicken on a baking tray, then place the tray in the oven and bake at a temperature of 200C for 40 minutes or till it’s cooked and golden brown.

You can cover the tray with foil for the first 30 minutes of baking to prevent the chicken from getting brown too quickly and the skin from getting burnt.

Bring the tray out of the oven, let the chicken rest for 5 minutes before serving.

Air Fryer Honey Mustard Chicken Thighs

Making honey mustard chicken thighs in the air fryer is easy, simple, and quicker than the oven. To make air fryer honey mustard chicken thighs:

Add the Paprika, garlic powder, honey, cayenne pepper, mustard, apple cider vinegar, and oil in a bowl. Mix them together till they are well combined.

Pat chicken thighs dry with a paper towel.

Add the chicken thighs to a bowl then pour the honey mustard marinade on it to cover all parts of the chicken thighs.

Cover the bowl and put it in the fridge to marinate for 1-2 hours. You can marinate for up to 12 hours if you have the time.

Bring out the marinated chicken thighs and leave it to get to room temperature. 

Arrange the thighs in the air fryer basket, then air fry at a temperature of 200C/400F for 25 minutes or till it’s cooked and golden brown. Flip the chicken thighs halfway through air frying so that all sides are browned nicely.

Bring the chicken out of the air fryer, leave to rest for 5 minutes then serve.

What To Serve With 

Potatoes – Diced potatoes, fried potatoes, air fryer roasted potatoes 

Vegetables – Carrots, broccoli, Zucchini.

Pasta

Rice

Gravy

How To Store 

To store leftover honey mustard chicken thighs, leave it to completely cool, then put it in an airtight container or Ziploc bag, then store it in the fridge where it will keep well for up to 5 days.

If you’d like to store it for longer, store it in the freezer where it will last for up to 6 months. Put in an airtight container or Ziploc, label with dates and name before putting it in the freezer.

Reheat it in the oven, air fryer, or microwave.

To reheat in the microwave: Place the chicken thighs on a microwave-safe dish, cover with microwave bowl cover, and set the microwave at a high temperature setting. Do 30 seconds interval till chicken is warmed through.

To reheat in the oven: Place the chicken on a baking tray and bake in the oven at a temperature of 180C/380F for 5 minutes or till heated through.

Tips

• Pat chicken thighs dry before marinating.

• You can substitute cayenne pepper for black pepper or any other pepper of your choice.

• Use Dijon , yellow or brown mustard.

• You can substitute apple cider vinegar for lemon juice.

• You can marinate chicken for 1-12 hour. Don’t exceed 24 hours.

• Don’t re-use marinade that has already been on raw chicken. Discard it. 

• Turn the chicken thighs halfway through air frying or baking so that all sides are baked evenly.

• Leave the chicken to rest for 5 minutes before serving.

Tools Used

Ziploc

Bowl

Measuring spoons

Baking tray

More Chicken Thigh recipes

Air fryer boneless chicken thighs 

Spicy chicken thighs 

Teriyaki chicken thighs 

Pan fried chicken thighs 

Air fryer frozen chicken thighs 

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