up until this year I had been a vegetarian for just about 6 years... but living in portland and seeing all of the wonderful food around made me decide to open up my options and begin trying new things. so I took the best route I could think of, making my own meat dishes so I knew exactly what ingredients were involved. this was the first recipe I ever, ever used to cook meat on my own.. and it's really been my favorite thing to make and eat ever since because it's SO tender and juicy and delicious. AND healthy!
I took pieces of a recipe I found on pinterest but then made it my own, so the recipe is scribbled on that photo above and here are some directions:
- pre-heat the oven to 350f
- place chicken thighs in a baking dish and in a seperate bowl mix your dijon mustard, soy sauce, olive oil, and a dash of lemon juice if you'd like. pour that over chicken and flip the thighs a few times to fully coat them with this mixture. add in chopped up potatoes, onions and garlic as you'd like.
- sprinkle on herbs de provence, salt & pepper (lightly, there is already salt in the soy sauce!)
- cover with aluminum foil and roast for 45 minutes, remove foil and add chicken stock to ensure the thighs are sort of swimming in juices and roast for 1 hour more, continually basting with stock or adding more to the dish to ensure there is always a good amount of sauce around the chicken as this will really add to the juiciness of the thighs.
enjoy! :)
