Barbeque is a misnomer here, because there was no barbeque-ing involved. I did not use a grill and the recipe didn't call for it. There is just a homemade, barbeque flavored sauce that goes on the sauce that warranted the name. I went along with it because a mustard glaze sounded good. Ryan and I are really into chicken thighs these days. I always thought dark meat was fattier, greasier, etc. but 2 thighs have about 250 calories, which is fine with me. Lots of Cooking Light recipes use thighs. There is probably less variation in size, too, whereas breasts vary greatly. (insert snickering here)
This recipe gets a "B" grade because of two things. Firstly, there was too much brown sugar in the spice rub. Second, the recipe called for it to be cooked on a grill pan at medium high. The combination of these two cause some serious blackening of the glaze to the pan. If there had been less brown sugar, or if they were only cooked at medium, I wouldn't have burned the entire dinner's calories off just scrubbing my pan afterwards. Or maybe that was Cooking Light's intention. Either way, do one of those things and I bet you'll come out with better thighs. Chicken that is, for your own thighs, try some squats.
Here is the recipe:
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