Perfectly tender Broiled Chicken Thighs, marinated and then glazed with this homemade barbecue sauce made for a great weeknight meal.
Learning how to broil chicken makes it easy to get a delicious dinner on the table fast.
Easy and delicious, these Broiled Chicken Thighs make a perfect weeknight meal.
Served with a side of Baked Beans, Potato Salad or Coleslaw, this chicken is bound to become one of your family’s favorite dinners.
Broiled Chicken Thighs
I love using my broiler for quick and easy dinners. It takes almost no time at all to broil chicken thighs and I am free to finish up the rest of the meal in the kitchen while it is cooking.
Served with a tossed salad and some smashed potatoes, this is a favorite meal for everyone in the family.
Still leery of your broiler? These Baked Chicken Thighs are pretty awesome too.
How to Broil Chicken
Making broiled chicken is a breeze and you’ll love the flavor. Aside from marinating the meat, you can have great-tasting broiled chicken on the table with less than 20 minutes of active cooking time.
To impart the best flavor to your chicken thighs, let the chicken pieces marinate in the barbecue sauce in a zipclose bag or large airtight container. Leave it for at least 6 hours, turning the pieces every couple of hours to be sure the sauce is distributed well.
If you toss the chicken in the sauce in the morning, it’ll be marinated and ready to cook by dinner time! Then it takes almost no time at all in the oven to get the chicken cooked through and ready to eat.
Place the chicken in the oven under the broiler setting for 5 to 6 minutes on the first side. Remove the chicken from the oven, flip and broil for another 5 minutes on the second side. Then, pour a little reserved barbecue sauce over the chicken before broiling for a final 2 minutes.
The chicken is done when the meat is no longer pink and the juices run clear.
Homemade Barbecue Sauces
When we’re craving barbecued chicken on a busy weeknight, oven-broiled chicken usually winds up on our menu. We love it with just about any homemade barbecue sauce.
If you like some heat with your chicken, try this recipe with my Homemade Spicy Barbecue Sauce or this Sweet and Spicy Homemade Barbecue Sauce. This Tangy Peach Barbecue Sauce comes with a fruity flair that pairs beautifully with chicken. We also love the vinegar forward flavor of Tangy Memphis BBQ Sauce.
The spicy maple flavor in this Sriracha Bourbon Barbecue Sauce is to die for, too. For an Asian spin, check out one of my all-time favorite sauces, Korean Barbecue Sauce.
Whenever I make a batch of barbecue sauce, I try to make enough to stick in the freezer for later. When the barbecue sauce is ready and waiting, making a full barbecued chicken meal is as easy as can be. If you don’t have any homemade barbecue sauce handy, a bottle of your favorite store-bought sauce works just as well!
I’m all in favor of any shortcuts that make getting dinner on the table even easier! Whether you make these broiled chicken thighs with homemade or bottled sauce, I know you’ll love it as much as we do.
For more great chicken recipes, you’ll also want to give Carolina Style Barbecue Chicken and these Beer and Brown Sugar Chicken Skewers a shot. This Spicy Honey Brushed Chicken is another favorite weeknight meal.
{originally published 3/27/12 – recipe notes and photos updated 4/13/22}
