Maple Mustard Grilled Chicken
Grilled Maple-Mustard Chicken Thighs
Shorter days, cooler nights, and I taste the spice of autumn in the air. In Nebraska, September starts the social season for University of Nebraska football and women’s volleyball fans and tailgating or a pre-game patio party are perfect venues to show off your culinary skills.
Because September also marks the beginning of what’s considered prime grilling season, I recommend a smoky and savory Maple Mustard Grilled Chicken Thighs recipe for your next tailgating or patio party. It’s easy — it comes together in 15 minutes — and when I mix maple syrup and Buzz Savories Spicy Beer Mustard, the flavor combination explodes, and chicken thighs ride the wave to a deliciously memorable barbecue.
For color and vitamins, toss end-of-summer vegetables on the grill and a simple mix of melons for the salad.
Serve and bask in the expressions of delight.
The Buzz
September at the apiary is when we lift the honey supers from the hives and compliment the bees for their diligence and productivity. A super holds 10 frames, and frames fully filled with honey weigh 30 lbs. The most productive hives may fill three supers while the hives with fewer bees many manage only one or one-and-a-half.
We pack our supers of honey in a trailer and drive to Oxford to visit our friends at the Bee Biz commercial beekeeping company. There, Bee Biz beekeepers place the frames on a conveyor belt that carries them through a honey extractor process. The Buzz Savories honey our own bees make returns to us in containers that weigh between 55 and 60 lbs. each.
In September we also feed the bees a corn syrup product enabling them to make more honey for their survival over the winter.
We also fumigate each hive once per week over three weeks with oxalic acid fumes to kill the varroa mites that increase their populations in the hives over the summer. Varroa mites are a significant factor in bee loss around the world.
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Maple Mustard Grilled Chicken
Equipment
- grill
What You'll Need:
- 3 lbs. chicken thighs
- ¾ cup Spicy Beer Mustard or Buzz Savories Honey Mustard
- 2 Tb. Maple syrup
- 1 Tb. Soy Sauce
- 2 Tb. apple cider vinegar
- 2 Tb. olive oil
- ½ tsp. salt
- ½ tsp. pepper
How To Prepare:
- Whisk maple syrup, mustard, vinegar, and Soy Sauce in a small bowl.
- Split sauce into 2 bowls: one for serving and the other for cooking.
- Heat grill to medium and rub chicken with oil, salt, and pepper.
- Grill chicken about 5 minutes on each side or until grill marks are visible.
- Flip chicken again and generously brush with the sauce. Flip and brush the chicken every 5 minutes until a thermometer inserted into the thickest piece reads 160 Degrees F to 165 Degrees F.