• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

The Midnight Baker

Easy to make main meal and dessert recipes.

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Home
  • Recipes
  • Text Index
  • Subscribe
  • Recipe Box
  • About Me
    • Media/PR
    • Cookbooks
      • The Classic Slow Cooker
      • The Cupboard To Table Cookbook
    • Contact
    • Privacy
Home » Chicken » Stuffed Chicken Thighs

Stuffed Chicken Thighs

August 26, 2018 by Judith Hannemann

Pin
Share
Tweet
Share

As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

Jump to Recipe Print Recipe

These easy peasy sausage stuffed chicken thighs are so delicious they’ll be on your regular rotation!

These boneless skinless thighs are stuffed with a mild sausage mixture and wrapped in bacon. They're easy and totally delicious.

Stuffed Chicken Made Easy

I love me some stuffed chicken, but like many, I find breasts hard to stuff. Mainly, it’s difficult to get the stuffing to stay in the chicken.

This recipe uses boneless, skinless thighs. Turns out that thighs are pretty easy to stuff because the removal on the bone make the perfect “pocket” for any filling! In fact, this may be my new go-to piece for stuffing since it’s so easy to do. I prefer that part anyway so it’s a perfect solution.

These boneless skinless thighs are stuffed with a mild sausage mixture and wrapped in bacon. They're easy and totally delicious.

Choose A Mild Sausage

Just recently I was watching a lot of food history documentaries on YouTube and of course, YouTube comes up with suggestions of what to watch next. A lot of those suggestions were shows with Mary Berry.

For those who have never heard of her, she’s a British icon as far as cooking is concerned–and has even superseded the great Fannie Craddock (another British cooking icon) in my opinion. Anyway, Mary Berry’s approach to cooking has always been making good food in as little time as possible. This recipe comes from her, and it’s just wonderful.

Britain basically has all the same products we use here in the USA, but sometimes call them by different names. For instance, “icing sugar” is confectioner’s sugar and “aubergines” are eggplants. However one thing that’s very different there than it is here is sausage.

British sausage is more like bratwurst than it is our breakfast sausage or Italian sausage, so I had to adapt the recipe a bit. Mary Berry’s filling used quite a bit of herbs and spices which added flavors to the very mild British kind. So I cut out all that and just used the parsley and onion.

These boneless skinless thighs are stuffed with a mild sausage mixture and wrapped in bacon. They're easy and totally delicious.

Great Tips

One little tip I picked up from watching this video was using honey to make sure things brown well–especially with short cook times.

You don’t use a lot, just a few drops will do. In fact, I doubt you’d even taste it.

I’ve noticed that things wrapped in bacon are generally overcooked by the time the bacon browns and brushing with a drop or two of honey (which the Brits call “runny honey”) does the trick. It also works for cooking chicken strips for stir fries that cook too quickly to brown. Just add about a teaspoon of honey and voila–lovely and golden.

This next tip comes from me–do yourself a favor and buy yourself an inexpensive kitchen scale. They’re small and come in handy for many things besides cooking. It’s absolutely necessary if you plan to cook some European baking recipes because they weigh everything. You’ll get more accurate results weighing than measuring in cups–which is especially true for flour.

Flour has a range of weights when measured by the cup because of differences in how the cup is filled, but 50 grams of flour is always 50 grams. Rose Levy Beranbaum advocated this years ago for the most foolproof way to bake. You won’t be sorry.

Watch The Video


 

The Recipe

 

These boneless skinless thighs are stuffed with a mild sausage mixture and wrapped in bacon. They're easy and totally delicious.
Print Recipe Add to Recipe Box Go to Collections Pin Recipe

Stuffed Chicken Thighs

These easy sausage stuffed chicken thighs are so delicious they’ll be on your regular rotation. Bacon wrapped chicken has never tasted so good!
Prep Time10 mins
Cook Time45 mins
Total Time55 mins
Course: Main
Cuisine: American
Keyword: bacon, chicken breast recipe, sausage, stuffed chicken
Servings: 8
Calories: 412kcal
Author: Judith Hannemann

Ingredients

  • 16 oz mild bulk breakfast sausage
  • 1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley
  • 2 tbs minced onion
  • 8 slices bacon
  • 8 boneless skinless chicken thighs
  • 1 tbs honey

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Line a large baking sheet with parchment or foil.
  • In a large bowl, mix the sausage, parsley and minced onion. Divide into 8 equal portions and shape each into a log no longer than the length of the chicken where the bone was.
  • Place chicken skinned side down and open them out. Place a log in the center of each thigh where the bone was and fold the chicken around it.
  • Wrap each thigh in one strip of bacon, seam side under the chicken.
  • Place the chicken on the prepared pan and brush each thigh with the honey.
  • Bake for 35 minutes or until cooked through and the bacon is golden brown and crispy. Let the chicken rest for 10 minutes before serving.

Nutrition

Serving: 1g | Calories: 412kcal | Carbohydrates: 4g | Protein: 33g | Fat: 28g | Saturated Fat: 9g | Cholesterol: 163mg | Sodium: 608mg | Potassium: 492mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 3g | Vitamin A: 235IU | Vitamin C: 3.8mg | Calcium: 21mg | Iron: 1.7mg
Tried this recipe?Mention @midnitebaker or tag #midnitebaker!

*Post contains affiliate links
*Adapted from Mary Berry

These boneless skinless thighs are stuffed with a mild sausage mixture and wrapped in bacon. They're easy and totally delicious.
Pin
Share
Tweet
Share

Filed Under: Chicken, Comfort Foods, Everyday Meals, Pork Tagged With: easy dinners, poultry, sausage

You May Also Like

Sausage rolls
Air Fryer Sausage Rolls
Air Fryer Scotch Eggs
Air Fryer Scotch Eggs
Sausage balls
Air Fryer Sausage Balls
Previous Post: « Easy Au Gratin Potato Soup
Next Post: Deluxe Brownies »

Reader Interactions

Copyright © Judith Hannemann aka The Midnight Baker 2022. All Rights Reserved. No part of this website may be reproduced without The Midnight Baker's express consent.

Comments

  1. Jess says

    August 26, 2018 at 8:09 pm

    Great way to make chicken thighs much more exciting. Chicken and bacon….mmmm heaven!
    Jess recently posted…The Definitive Guide to Good Coffee HealthMy Profile

  2. Margaret Frew says

    August 27, 2018 at 8:16 am

    I have not tried this but sounds very good. I often think of different meals that are cheap but tasty. This is one that I will try, shopping day Tuesday

  3. Uma Maheswar Nakka says

    August 27, 2018 at 10:15 am

    A Very delicious recipe. Thanks a ton.
    Regards and blessings

Primary Sidebar

Now Available

bakeatmidnite
ALSO AVAILABLE bakeatmidnite

Follow by Email! Get the e-Cookbook

“Must Try” Recipes

Inexpensive, tasty and filling stew.

Stuffed Pepper Stew

Chicken Cordon Bleu Casserole

Baked Golden Ranch Pork Chops

Authentic Hungarian Goulash is warm, comforting and easy to make! Surprise ingredient makes the flavor sing.

Hungarian Goulash

bakeatmidnite

Footer

bakeatmidnite
my foodgawker gallery Certified Yummly Recipes on Yummly.com
bakeatmidnite
COPYRIGHT © 2023 • BAKEATMIDNITE.COM • PRIVACY POLICY