Cherry Chipotle BBQ Chicken Thighs

Ok that is serious yumminess right there!

I try to stretch food as much as possible and a while back I saw this tip from the Brothers Green. They took chicken thighs and cut most of the meat off to use for one meal but left a decent amount on the thigh bone to use in a different meal. That’s what I did here. I cut the big section of meat off and made nuggets for my son’s lunch and used the meat on the bone for these delicious Cherry Chipotle BBQ chicken thighs. 

I like simple food. But I also like tasty food. These meet both criteria. 

I simply cooked the chicken in a tiny bit of olive oil first. I actually cooked the nuggets and the thigh bone drummies (yep, that’s what I’m calling them) together. Of course the nuggets cook faster so I took those out when they were done and continued cooking the thigh bone drummies until they were cooked through. Then I wiped out the pan of any oil or fat that may have released from the chicken. (I used one of those Copper Chef pans for super easy clean-up.)

So now my chicken thigh drummies are cooked and in the pan. Here comes the really hard part! I poured Fitz’s Cherry Chipotle BBQ Sauce over each piece, flipped and poured a bit more on. Then let the sauce thicken while flipping and coating the chicken thigh drummies. That’s it! It probably took longer to type this out than to make these! 

A couple things I want to mention.
1) I get my chicken from a local farm, Fresh Pasture Farms, so these chicken thighs were big!
2) Fitz's is a restaurant in St. Louis that makes and bottles their own sodas right there in the restaurant! You can watch them bottle while you have your meal. It’s pretty cool! They also make this Cherry Chipotle BBQ Sauce that I used plus they make a Rootbeer BBQ Sauce as well. They use their Black Cherry Soda in the Cherry Chipotle and their Rootbeer in the Rootbeer BBQ Sauce. Both are excellent!
3) This would be an awesome way to cook chicken wings too!

Enjoy!!