Mustard-Maple Glazed Chicken Recipe

Today’s Best Recipe is Mustard Maple Glazed Chicken.

It should be noted that if you exchange the chicken for pork chops you have an amazing Mustard Maple Glazed Pork Chops recipe.

Regardless of your protein choice, it’s a delicious recipe.

The “gravy” is tangy maple mustard sauce deliciously drizzled over the chicken, ham, or served on rice or mashed potatoes.

Chicken is a staple at our house.

As it is in most homes.

Everyone has a chicken recipe they love and I’m sure this easy recipe will be one of yours.

It can be prepared so many ways and so many textures can be created.

It’s a great protein.

I serve it grilled, BBQ, baked, fried, marinated and more.

This recipe is easy and offers great flavor.

But wait.

It gets better.

Versatility is key, and this sauce’s tangy-sweet flavor combination works incredibly well with pork.

I live in the south where everything is smothered.

This gravy is perfect for smothering.

It’s savory with just a subtle sweetness.

I like it on my green beans–I’m just sayin’.

I’m going to tell you right now, you’re gonna love the sauce and you should DOUBLE the recipe for the sauce part.

It also makes for a great dipping sauce for chicken tenders.

When you’re cleaning up if anything is left, put it in an airtight container.

Your week of feasting will thank me as you pull it out for baked potatoes, veggies, rice, or eat it by the spoonful–I’m not here to judge!

Oh, and did I mention you need less than 5 ingredients to put this on the table?

That’s it…easy!

 

Mustard-Maple Glazed Chicken Recipe

Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 40 minutes
Total Time: 45 minutes
EASY
Serves 4

Mustard-Maple Glazed Chicken Recipe Ingredients:

4 chicken breasts (you can use wings, legs, thighs, etc.)

1/2 cup Dijon Mustard

1/4 Maple Syrup

1 Tbsp Rice Vinegar

salt and pepper, to taste

Fresh Rosemary

How to Make Maple Mustard Chicken

1. Preheat oven to 450-degrees.
2. Grease an 8″x8″ pan (I line mine with aluminum foil and spray)
3. Place chicken breast halves in greased pan and sprinkle with salt and pepper, to taste.
4. In a small bowl combine maple syrup, mustard, and rice vinegar and pour over chicken.
5. Bake in preheated oven at 450 degree oven for 40 minutes (or until the temperature of chicken reaches 165 degrees)
6. About halfway through bake time, spoon mixture from pan over the top of the chicken again.
7. Remove from oven and sprinkle chicken with fresh Rosemary
8. Serve alone, or over rice.

I know you’re going to love this easy dinner as much as we do. We all need easy recipes to get dinner on the table, and once you taste the sweet and tangy maple-mustard sauce, you’re going to be wanting it on everything.

Think of it.

Maple Mustard Glazed Porkchops:

 

 

Or Mustard Maple Glazed Salmon:

 

Substitutions:

*The rosemary is optional. If you are looking for substitutions, basil or thyme is excellent.

Whole grain mustard is my personal preference, however, any mustard works. You can use brown mustard, yellow mustard, or Dijon mustard.

Real maple syrup, or pure maple syrup is my choice, but any maple syrup works. You can also substitute with honey.

Pan Seared Mustard Maple Glazed Chicken Instruction:

You can pan sear this chicken. You would heat an oven-proof skillet over medium high heat with 1 Tablespoon olive oil or butter, for 2 minutes. Once the pan is hot, place your chicken in the hot skillet and reduce heat to medium heat and cook for 4 minutes on each side until golden brown. Remove chicken. Deglaze the pan with the rice vinegar to scrape up the browned bits and add to step 3 above in the pan. Return chicken to oven-proof skillet and place in preheated oven. Cook for 20 minutes or until chicken cooks to 165 degrees internally. Remember to spoon sauce over chicken halfway through baking.

Cooking Tip:

For a more even cooking, you may wish to place chicken breast between two sheets of waxed paper, or in a resealable baggie and use a meat mallet to pound chicken to even thickness.

More Chicken Dishes:

Lazy Chicken Alfredo
Instant Pot Chicken Cacciatore Recipe
Instant Pot Arroz con Pollo (Chicken with Rice) Recipe
Artichoke Chicken Salad Recipe
Instant Pot Chicken Caesar Salad Recipe
Instant Pot Lemon Mustard Chicken with Potatoes
Instant Pot Sesame Chicken Recipe
Coca-Cola BBQ Chicken Casserole
Instant Pot Chicken and Dumplings Recipe
Easy Slow Cooker Chicken Enchilada Casserole Recipe
Easy Chicken Avocado Tortilla Soup Recipe
Copycat Olive Garden Stuffed Chicken Marsala
Creamy Chicken Broccoli Soup
Creamy Loaded Baked Potato Soup

This recipe appears in Julee Morrison’s The How To Cookbook for Teens

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