Maple Roasted Chicken Recipe

This post is sponsored by Foodie.

I’ll give you a minute.

Yup, a FOOD post.

I gave up on recipe posts awhile back because I wasn’t really cooking anything delicious that the general population would want to read about. {See: allergies.} Then there’s the whole cooking-while-there’s-still-daylight and the keeping-grimy-toddler-hands-out-of-pictures things. It just lost it’s appeal.

BUT. Perhaps with the longer spring days {SPRING!} it may – may- happen once in awhile.

To re-kick things off, here’s a fun recipe from one of the Foodie app’s gluten-free recipe edition. You’ve probably seen a couple posts I’ve done with Foodie – if not, Foodie is like a food-lover’s Pinterest– a visual collection of recipes in a variety of user-created categories. Every once in awhile they feature a special collection on their app. It’s a virtual cookbook of sorts. It’s like having a swipeable cookbook in the palm of your hand at the grocery store, which makes being flexible about doing dinner shopping easy. {Just don’t be like me and try to download the edition while you’re walking out the door. It takes a few minutes. But once it’s downloaded it’s fast and you don’t have to have internet connection to look at the recipes.}

Foodie tasked me with making one of the recipes from the latest collection, the Gluten-Free edition. Perfect, right? While a bunch of the recipes looked downright delicious, I opted to go for what could become a dinner staple: maple-roasted chicken.

Now, mine looks nothing like the picture because I opted for a few shortcuts. Namely, using chicken breast tenderloins and cooking it on the stovetop. Hey, when a toddler wants dinner, he WANTS DINNER NOW! I love slow-cooking whole chickens so that would’ve been a good option to, had I had my act together before dinner time rolled around.

I served it with wilted garlikcy greens, onions, and roasted {unpictured} cauliflower on the side. It would’ve been really good with the rosemary sweet potato fries {also in the app} or sauteed sweet potato noodles {I’m obsessed with veggie noodles}.