Best Way to Prepare Crispy Baked Mayo Chicken 🍗 Thighs Recipe

Crispy Baked Mayo Chicken 🍗 Thighs. These bone-in chicken thighs are first spread with mayonnaise, then topped with seasoned bread crumbs before baking. They are super crispy on the outside. You won't believe they are baked!

This chicken recipe is incredibly easy to make, packed with flavor and much healthier than traditional fried chicken. An easy baked keto chicken thighs recipe that uses a trick from Cooks Illustrated to get the bone in chicken thigh skin nice and crispy! The method I used to accomplish these crispy chicken thighs (and I mean super crispy!) is to shake them with baking powder and my seasonings in a bag before. You can make yummy Crispy Baked Mayo Chicken 🍗 Thighs using 9 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that with this recipe.

Basic Ingredients of Crispy Baked Mayo Chicken 🍗 Thighs

1. You need 1 of large pack chicken thighs (skin on, bone in).
2. It's of Sprinkle black pepper.
3. Prepare of Sprinkle Garlic powder.
4. It's 1 cup of mayonnaise.
5. Prepare 1/4 teaspoon of cayenne pepper.
6. It's 1/2 tablespoon of dried onion flakes.
7. It's 2 cups of shredded cheddar cheese.
8. You need 1/2 cup of bread crumbs.
9. It's of Butter cooking spray.

Chicken thigh meat is usually more moist and flavorful than chicken breast meat. When you bake chicken thighs the right way, they will be deliciously crispy on the outside and juicy inside. The seasoning for this chicken thighs recipe is so simple and so tasty. Rest assured, these crispy oven baked chicken thighs are everything you've ever wanted out of a piece of chicken.

Crispy Baked Mayo Chicken 🍗 Thighs step by step

1. Rinse and pat dry your chicken thighs, place into a large baking pan........
2. Season both sides of chicken thighs with black pepper and garlic powder.......
3. Roast thighs in a preheated 400 degree oven for 1 hour, uncovered.......
4. In a bowl combine mayonnaise, cayenne pepper,dry onion flakes and shredded cheddar cheese......
5. When thighs are done remove from oven and spread mayonnaise mixture over each chicken thigh, make sure you cover all areas of thighs !!! 😁.
6. Sprinkle your bread crumbs all over chicken thighs......
7. Lightly spray each chicken thigh with the butter cooking spray.......
8. Lower oven temperature to 375 degrees and bake for 20 minutes or until cheese is melted........
9. Serve and enjoy 😉!.

It doesn't get any better than Trim the chicken thighs of any excess fat or skin. Place chicken thighs directly into the prepared dish, skin side up. Drizzle chicken skin with olive oil. Baked Chicken Thighs are a delicious and very simple main dish. Chicken thighs have so much flavor and of course dark meat is so incredibly tender!