The best oven baked chicken thighs I’ve ever made. So easy to do and such a simple Keto sheet pan chicken thighs recipe that even my kids liked! Want to add a sauce? Give our baked teriyaki chicken thighs a whirl too.
In the past I veered away from making oven baked chicken thighs. I just didn’t know what to do with this cut of meat. A few months ago I just couldn’t resist because they were on sale and just too cheap to pass up. With a few veggies, olive oil and some spices they had to be good right?? (originally published 3/17, affiliate links present)
With very little prep these garlic butter chicken thighs baked in the oven were SO easy to make. I paired them with best stuffing recipe and it made for a great dinner!
Oven baked chicken thighs recipe
Here’s the recipe we made then, and now make quite frequently because it’s so good, healthy, and SO inexpensive too! This was so good!
Oven Baked Chicken Thighs Bone In
The package of 6 chicken thighs was less than five dollars and fed all of us with that side of stuffing I talked about. For this one with the cook time we are referring to those that are defrosted or fresh. If you are baking frozen chicken thighs you would need to refer to this other post.
- Super cheap meal! I cut mushrooms I had into fourths, cut these mini pearl onions in half, mixed all of it with olive oil and spices in a bowl and threw it on a sheet pan to bake in the oven.
I just use my hands to mix all the contents in the bowl and massage the oil and spices into your chicken thighs before baking. It is easier to make sure all the veggies and chicken get nice and coated if you use your hands instead of a spoon I think.
If you don’t have parchment paper you don’t have to use it but it makes for an easier cleanup and ensures your food doesn’t stick to the pan.
How Long to Cook Chicken Thighs in Oven
It’s seriously an easy sheet pan chicken thigh recipe that you can throw together easily, is healthy, and is really flavorful with just a few veggies and spices that I am sure you have in your spice cupboard too!
If you love this easy chicken recipe you can try it in your Crockpot too. Follow this slow cooker chicken thighs and potatoes post here for that.
- Put chicken thighs, Lawrys seasoned salt, garlic powder, onions and mushrooms into a bowl and mix (use your hands to massage oil and spices into chicken). Put parchment paper on cookie sheet.
- Pour chicken and contents on cookie sheet and spread out flat to cook evenly. Sprinkle oregano, basil, sprigs of thyme and a squeeze of half a lemon over the top of the veggies and chicken (use more spices if desired).
- Put in oven at 350 degrees for 40 minutes or until top of skins get lightly browned (or as brown as you’d like them). Done!
- You can get these extra crispy switched to broiler setting for a few minutes or throw them into your air fryer at 400 for 3-4 minutes.
If you have this nifty appliance it will do all the work for you to make the outside crunchy! Even without breading, crispy chicken skin is the bomb.
Baked chicken thighs recipe
Air fryer chicken thighs are favorite way to crisp them up, or make them inside from the beginning since we got this device. Air fryer leg quarters are pretty amazing too.
- You can also make baked chicken legs similarly but I usually put them on a wire rack so the drippings flow away from the skin and meat.
- Our oven baked brisket just is out of this world
- Instant Pot chicken thighs bone in recipe
Make our easy air fryer garlic bread or pull apart bread recipe as an easy side dish and dinner is ready!!
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Oven Baked Chicken Thighs
Ingredients
- 6 chicken thighs skin on, bone in
- 1/4 c olive oil
- 8-10 quartered mushrooms
- 6-8 pearl onions halved or 1/4 regular onion
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp seasoned salt
- 2 tsp oregano
- 2 tsp basil
- 6 thyme sprigs
- squeeze of lemon
- parchment paper
Instructions
- Put chicken thighs, Lawrys, garlic powder, onions and mushrooms into a bowl and mix (use your hands to massage oil and spices into chicken). Put parchment paper on cookie sheet.
- Pour chicken and contents on cookie sheet and spread out flat to cook evenly. Sprinkle oregano, basil, sprigs of thyme and a squeeze of half a lemon over the top of the veggies and chicken (use more spices if desired).
- Put in oven at 350 degrees for 40 minutes or until top of skins get lightly browned (or as brown as you’d like them). Done!
- Can get extra crispy switched to broiler setting for a few minutes or throw them into your air fryer at 400 for 3-4 minutes.