Oven Roasted Chicken Thighs

Crispy oven-roasted chicken thighs prepared with just 4 ingredients from scratch.

This is a simple but tasty bone in chicken thigh dish for the whole family!

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• 🍗 Ingredients
• 🔪 How to roast chicken thighs?
• 🍴 Serving
• 🍱 Storing
• 💭 FAQs
• 📖 Recipe

🍗 Ingredients

To make this dish you will need:

• Chicken thighs - should be almost the same size so that they cook through the same way
• Olive oil - I like to use extra virgin olive oil
• Salt - I used pink Himalayan salt, regular salt will do too.
• Black pepper - any will do but quality freshly ground pepper is preferred. I used a blend of black, pink, and white pepper for color and flavor contrast.

You are free to add some more other spices and herbs too.

I tried adding in the past thyme, rosemary or herbes de provence to the salt and pepper and it tasted great too!

You can sprinkle and rub in lemon juice too if you are looking for citrus flavors.

For a Asian flavored chicken thighs, add lime juice and grated ginger to the chicken seasoning and rub it in too.

🔪 How to roast chicken thighs?

Here is an overview on how to make this from scratch in ease.

The complete recipe with adjustable measurements is located further below in the recipe card. Video is the pop up.

Step 1 - season

Place chicken thighs next to each other in a baking dish.

Sprinkle olive oil, salt and black pepper over the meat.

Step 2 - rub

Rub the oil and seasoning into the chicken with your hands.

Step 3 - roast

Roast Chicken until crispy on the outside and juicy cooked inside.

🍴 Serving

I love chicken with plain cooked rice such as basmati or Jasmin rice.

Aromatic rice dishes also go well with this baked chicken, such as rice flavored with cloves, lemon rice, or cilantro rice.

Or how about some roasted vegetables as a healthier side dish option? I recommend root vegetables such as potatoes, carrots, beets as well as other vegetables such as brussels sprouts and cauliflower.

Side dish salads are a good fit with chicken thighs. We enjoyed the thighs in the pictures with our broccoli radish salad.

🍱 Storing

Store chicken leftovers in an airtight container in your fridge for up to 2-3 days.

Warm up chicken in the oven for a few minutes until hot enough.

To freeze

You have the option to freeze your chicken thighs so that you just pop them into the oven when you want to cook them.

For freezing, prepare and season chicken as per instructions, place on a tray, and freeze hard.

Take out from the tray and store in an airtight freezer-friendly container.

To use and cook, thaw in the fridge over night and cook as per instructions in the oven OR Place frozen into the oven and cook another 20-30 minutes extra ( Although I recommend to thaw completely for the meat to get used to the new temp).

💭 FAQs

📖 Recipe