BBQ Orange Baked Chicken
BBQ Orange Baked Chicken is an easy freezer meal that can be assembled ahead of time in a freezer bag and frozen until you are ready to cook it. Makes dinner time so easy!
A combination of orange marmalade and spicy bbq sauce creates a sweet and tangy sauce for the chicken. Only 5 ingredients, plus salt and pepper are needed for this recipe: orange marmalade, spicy BBQ Sauce, Worcestershire sauce, lemon juice, and boneless, skinless chicken thighs.
You want to give the chicken time to soak up the flavors of the marinade/sauce. It works great to mix all the ingredients together in a ziplock bag in the morning and refrigerate until supper time. Or you can freeze for up to 3 months. Go ahead and make 2 or 3 batches so you have some extra freezer meals stashed away.
Recipe
Prep:5 minutes
Cook:45 minutes
Total:2 hrs 50 minutes
Servings: 6 servings
Ingredients
- ½ cup orange marmalade
- ▢⅓ cup spicy BBQ Sauce
- ▢2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
- ▢1 tablespoon lemon juice
- ▢6 boneless, skinless chicken thighs
- ▢salt and pepper
- Use peach preserves or apricot preserves in place of orange marmalade.
- Use soy sauce in place of Worcestershire sauce.
- Add crushed red pepper flakes or cayenne pepper for extra spice.
Instructions
Whisk together first 4 ingredients in a bowl.Transfer to a large ziptop freezer bag. Add chicken and turn to coat.
Refrigerate for 2 to 8 hours or freeze for up to 2 months.
If frozen, thaw in the refrigerator overnight.Preheat oven to 350 degrees and place contents of freezer bag in a greased 9×13-inch baking dish. Spread chicken out evenly.
Bake for 45 minutes. Baste with sauce and then broil for a few minutes.
