Sweet and Spicy Oven-Baked Drumsticks
"A devilishly-good seasoned dredge for your chicken drumsticks. Gift your 'secret' recipe to friends in decorated bags, and give instructions on how to bake the drumsticks."
photo by Diana 2
- Ready In:
- 50mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Serves:
-
4-6
ingredients
- olive oil, to coat bottom of pan
- 8 chicken drumsticks, rinsed, patted dry
- 1⁄3 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons icing sugar
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons salt
- 1 teaspoon chili powder (if you like food very spicy, up to 1 1/2 tsps)
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1 teaspoon dried basil
- 3⁄4 teaspoon garlic powder or 3/4 teaspoon garlic granules
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1⁄4 teaspoon ground pepper
directions
- Preheat oven to 440°F (225C).
- Pour enough olive oil into a foil-lined 9 X 13-inch baking pan to just coat bottom.
- Mix flour, icing sugar, chili powder, salt, oregano, basil, garlic powder, cumin, ginger and ground pepper in a heavy-duty plastic bag; shake chicken pieces in the bag, a few at a time, until evenly coated. Give chicken a sharp rap against the side of bag when removing to shake off excess coating.
- Place the drumsticks in the olive oil; bake 30 minutes. Turn drumsticks and bake 15 minutes more until pieces are fork-tender.
- Enjoy!
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Reviews
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I used skinless, boneless chicken breast, and they worked quite nicely. We really enjoyed the lightness of the coating. We didn't detect any sweetness whatsoever, and I expect two teaspoons of icing sugar may not be enough to do the trick. We also though the flavouring was very mild, which surprised me. I was expecting more considering the spices that were used. We enjoyed the dish, but found it just didn't match the description of 'sweet and spicy'. Made for the 2010 Craze-E Category Contest. Good luck and thanks for participating.
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OK, here goes. I live in Athens, Greece. I moved out here many, many years ago from Ottawa, Canada - so I am blessed in having two wonderful heritages!
I suffer from compulsive obsessive behaviour with regard to food and my psychiatrist thought it would be a good idea to find a 'society' where many have the same problem and try to find a cure.
So far, I've copied a couple of thousand recipes from this site and my psychiatrist has thrown the towel in and refuses to answer the phone when I call.
What did I do wrong?
Got 3 kids that keep me on the go - 10 and under at this point (2008) - I may not get round to updating this for a few years, so you'll have to do your own maths.
I teach English full-time and Greek Cookery part-time. I would like to make the cooking part of it full-time and the English Grammar part of it part-time.
That's all for now.
