4 Perfect Chicken Thigh Recipes for Lunch
How do you prefer your chicken thighs — in a pan on a bed of freekeh, in the oven with sweet potatoes, roasted in a basic soy and honey sauce, or with shawarma flavors in one tray with quick mujadara? All the recipes are here, you just have to choose (and devour).
Roasted chicken thighs on spiced freekeh
Anyone familiar with Itay Dagan's videos knows that immediately after watching one, you feel an intense, almost uncontrollable urge to prepare the dish featured in it. Everything looks so delicious, tempting, and simple to prepare that you feel compelled to do exactly what he does, and preferably right now. After trying his recipe for roasted chicken thighs on a bed of freekeh, we can confirm: it doesn't just look delicious and tempting. It truly is.
Chicken thighs and sweet potatoes in 5 minutes
A winning sauce made from four pantry staples, some chicken thighs, and a few sweet potatoes — that's all you need for the tray in the photo, which easily provides a great meal for the whole family. If you have the ingredients and 5 minutes to spare, consider your lunch sorted.
Oven-baked chicken skewers
This recipe is dedicated to everyone who finds washing dishes the most loathsome of household chores. Aside from a bowl to mix the sauce and the plate you eat from, it creates zero extra mess. The flavors are soy, honey, garlic, and a touch of black pepper. If you buy the chicken thighs already on skewers, the prep time is literally a second and a half.
Shawarma and mujadara on one tray
This recipe is essentially a collection of shortcuts, which is why we love it so deeply. The chicken thigh remains whole, the rice cooks in the oven, the lentils come ready-to-use from a can, and the laboriously fried onions are replaced by the crispy fried onions found in the supermarket spice aisle. And the whole dish? Wow.
Bon appétit!
