Crispy Baked Hen Drumsticks | RecipeTin Eats

August 9, 2022

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By:Nagi

Revealed:28 Jul ’22Up to date:1 Aug ’22

That is only a nice, easy baked rooster drumsticks recipe you will get within the oven shortly. A 3-ingredient seasoning provides terrific flavour and color. In the meantime, the key to a stunning crispy pores and skin is a contact of baking powder. Don’t consider me? Learn the opinions in my Really Crispy Baked Hen Wings which makes use of the identical trick!

Crispy Baked Hen Legs

In the event you ask me, on a sheer scale of munchability (new phrase) rooster drumsticks beats out rooster breasts any outdated day. I’d fairly be grabbing a drumstick with my fingers and chomping that meaty flesh off the bone than daintily nibbling a rooster breast with a knife and fork!

However, possibly that’s simply me.

So for those who’re in my camp – or really, even for those who’re not (!) ? – right here’s a terrific on a regular basis rooster drumsticks recipe to attempt. It’s flavoured with a easy, BBQ rub-like seasoning made with simply paprika, onion and garlic powder (guess you’ve acquired all 3 in your pantry!!) bulked out with flour to coat the legs throughout.

As for slightly trick to get the pores and skin good and crispy? A contact of baking powder. Yep, actually. Learn on!

Showing the juicy inside of Crispy Baked Chicken Drumsticks — Seasoned, baked rooster legs. Crispy pores and skin, juicy insides!

Pile of Crispy Baked Chicken Drumsticks — Don’t you simply wish to attain by your display and seize one in every of these??

Seasoning for Crispy Baked Hen Drumsticks

Right here’s what you want to make these drumsticks. Baking powder is the key substances that makes the pores and skin crispy. In the meantime flour is used to bulk out the seasoning combine so we are able to coat the rooster legs throughout.

Ingredients for Crispy Baked Chicken Drumsticks seasoning

Hen drumsticks – Whereas I’m utilizing rooster legs for this recipe, rooster wings and skin-on, bone-in rooster thighs may also be used.
Baking powder (for crispy pores and skin!) – NOT to be confused with baking soda / bi-carb which is completely different! Baking powder is a tried and confirmed ingredient utilized in my baked rooster wings to make rooster pores and skin crispier. There’s a bunch of science behind why it really works, however all you want to know is that it does!

For full transparency, I might be upfront in saying the pores and skin on this recipe isn’t as shatteringly crisp as it’s within the wings. It’s because the wings have simply plain pores and skin whereas these legs are coated in seasoning, which does inhibit crisping (in return for extra flavour coating!) Nevertheless, with none baking powder in any respect, the drumstick rooster pores and skin is simply borderline soggy. Non-crispy rooster pores and skin is ok in itself for those who’re baking drumsticks with a glaze, like my Sticky Honey Soy Baked Hen or Honey Mustard Baked Hen Drumsticks. However for this recipe, it’s SO a lot nicer when the pores and skin is slightly crisp!
Spice combine – We’re utilizing a mixture of smoked or plain paprika, onion and garlic powder right here. These 3 spices are a traditional, American barbecue rub-like seasoning mixture I take advantage of in lots of dishes (resembling my rub for pork chops and baked rooster breasts). Onion and garlic powder might be substituted with extra of the opposite, for those who don’t have each.
Flour – That is used to bulk out the seasoning so we are able to coat the rooster legs evenly throughout.

Seasoning for Crispy Baked Chicken Drumsticks — Bulking out the seasoning with flour means we are able to coat the legs evenly throughout.

Methods to make Crispy Baked Hen Drumsticks

The trick to crispy baked drumsticks is to stretch the pores and skin over the drumsticks as a lot as potential (as a result of flesh gained’t go crisp!) after which coat the pores and skin evenly throughout with the seasoned flour.

How to make Crispy Baked Chicken Drumsticks

Seasoning – Combine the spices and flour collectively in a bowl. Use a shallow bowl because it’s simpler coat the rooster legs within the seasoning.
Coat drumsticks in oil – The oil makes the seasoning stick with the rooster in addition to serving to the pores and skin go good and brown because it bakes. I discover it’s best to rub it throughout utilizing my arms to make sure every drumstick is well-coated.
Stretch pores and skin – The extra pores and skin that stays put over the flesh, the crispier your drumsticks! So pull and stretch the pores and skin to cowl the flesh as greatest you may. A few of the pores and skin will nonetheless shrink again because it bakes anyway, however for those who skip this step completely you’ll find yourself with a principally bare drumstick ?
Coat legs within the seasoning – Dip, flip, use fingers for sprinkling on high as wanted. Then shake off the surplus, in any other case you find yourself with fairly a thick layer of pasty-ish coating on the rooster legs.
Rack on tray – Place the legs on a rack on a foil-lined tray. Why foil-lined? It makes your clear up life simpler. Why rack? For crispy undersides! Don’t have a rack? Line with paper as an alternative and switch the drumsticks midway, and anticipate so as to add an additional 5 to 10 minutes to the bake time to make the highest crispy.

Spray with oil – Then spray the legs with oil. Be beneficiant! It makes them extra crispy and golden, virtually like a frying impact!
Bake for half-hour at 200°C/390°F (180°C fan), rotating the tray as soon as to assist them prepare dinner evenly. Then crank the oven as much as 220°C/430°C (200°C fan) and bake for an additional quarter-hour till they’re crisp and golden. You may discover you want an additional 5 minutes to get the pores and skin crispy, relying on how evenly the warmth is distributed in your oven.

As soon as they’re prepared, serve them up immediately whereas they’re good and scorching!

Tray of freshly made Crispy Baked Chicken Drumsticks

Crispy Baked Chicken Drumsticks with fried rice

What to serve with Crispy Baked Hen Drumsticks

These drumsticks are fairly common in character and pleasant with a variety of different dishes. Attempt these drumsticks with Fried Rice and a easy Backyard Salad, as pictured above. Else, make up a giant batch of Macaroni Salad or Potato Salad – these are nice huge batch sides that retains within the fridge for days. For one thing completely different, there’s additionally my marinated Vegetable Pasta Salad (glorious starch + veg aspect), a Quinoa Kale Salad (the kale is marinated!) or a giant Candy Potato Salad.

For extra concepts, have a flick through my assortment of Facet Dishes (potato, pasta, rice, salads, veg!).

Like to know for those who do that – let me know what you suppose! – Nagi x

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