Oven baked crunchy crumbed chickenhearted drumsticks. Great seasoning, large crispy exterior, juicy flesh. Tastes similar KFC – minus each the calories and grease!
Crunchy crumbed chickenhearted drumsticks
I person a brushed spot for chickenhearted legs. Juicier and much flavourful than thin chickenhearted breast, and much economical astatine that. With the bonus that there’s thing other enjoyable astir nutrient that has to beryllium eaten with your hands.
Nobody eats drumsticks with a fork and knife, bash they?? Surely not! Way excessively civilised and mode excessively overmuch nutrient wastage. There’s nary mode you tin prime the bony cleanable of each scrap of nutrient with cutlery!!!
Hands each the way. GRAB and DEVOUR!
Today’s drumsticks are fabulously crunchy each over, and precise good seasoned truthful there’s nary request to marinate it overnight. You tin marque it close now, for meal tonight. And yours volition beryllium arsenic gorgeously aureate arsenic you spot successful the photos arsenic agelong arsenic you’re generous with the lipid spray. Spray, spray, spray!
Ingredients successful crunchy crumbed chickenhearted drumsticks
The seasoning
The cardinal to this look is simply a bold flavoured seasoning truthful there’s plentifulness of flavour successful each wound adjacent though we haven’t marinated the chicken. Here’s what you request – each pantry staples!
The spiciness comes from the chilli / cayenne capsicum and a bully magnitude of achromatic pepper. There are adjustments successful the look to marque this kid affable by either wholly eliminating the spiciness oregon reducing it.
The crumbing
And here’s what you request for the crumb coating.
Chicken drumsticks aka chickenhearted legs. If yours were frozen, thaw thoroughly and pat adust other good other you volition extremity up with soggy patches.
Egg and flour – the glue for the breadcrumbs. (PS I thought 2 eggs was capable but actually, we request 3.)
Panko breadcrumbs – A Japanese breadcrumb favoured for the extra-crispy coating it gives crumbed foods. You tin bargain it astatine astir large supermarkets (AUS – Coles, Woolworths, Harris) successful the Asian foods conception and Asian stores (cheaper!). Substitute with regular breadcrumbs.
How to marque crunchy crumbed drumsticks
I similar to divided the seasoning betwixt the flour and the panko, for maximum flavour effect!
Seasoning – Mix the seasoning successful a tiny bowl.
Season flour and breadcrumbs – Use 1 tablespoonful of the seasoning for the flour, past premix the remainder successful with the panko.
Crumbing (without making a mess!)- Use 1 manus to overgarment a drumstick successful the flour past shingle disconnected excess. Use the aforesaid manus to overgarment the drumstick successful egg, past let the excess to drip off. Still utilizing the aforesaid hand, spot the drumstick successful the panko, past usage your different manus to sprinkle with panko. Press to adhere, rotate and overgarment each implicit with panko. Place connected rack. Marvel astatine clean(ish) hands!!
Repeat with remaining drumsticks, lining them up truthful they are evenly spaced.
Spray generously with canola oregon different oil. I similar to usage canola lipid due to the fact that it comes retired similar a foam truthful I tin spot wherever I’ve sprayed. (PS The much you spray, the much aureate and crunchy the coating. So don’t clasp back!)
Bake for 25 minutes astatine 200°C/400°F (180°C fan). Flip drumsticks, spray again, past cook for a further 20 minutes oregon until gorgeously aureate and crunchy. Let them chill for 5 minutes – which besides gives the crumb a accidental to “set” – past dive in!
What to service with crunchy drumsticks
Gosh, there’s truly nary rules here. I had them with leftover Supreme Soy Noodles and Smashed Cucumbers connected the time I made the look video. Certainly not evidently choices but it was inactive enjoyable! 😂
To support your beingness easy, effort serving this with what I telephone two-in-one-side dishes. These are sides that harvester plentifulness of vegetables with starch successful 1 crockery truthful you tin conscionable service that arsenic the broadside alternatively than making a broadside crockery positive a starch to capable retired a meal.
Some idiosyncratic two-in-one favourites include:
Purple Rice – made with reddish cabbage successful it (imagine however colourful your meal sheet volition be!)
Garlic Butter Rice with Kale – the champion mode I cognize to person kale haters!!
Enjoy! – Nagi x
Watch however to marque it
Crunchy crumbed chickenhearted drumsticks
Ingredients
- 8 chicken drumsticks
- 1/2 cup flour , plain/all purpose
- 3 large eggs , beaten
- 1 cup panko breadcrumbs (Note 1)
- Canola lipid spray (or different oil)
Seasoning:
- 1 tbsp dried oregano
- 1 tbsp dried basil
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 1/2 tsp smoked paprika
- 1 1/2 tsp cayenne capsicum oregon axenic chilli pulverization – Note 2 (omit for kid-friendly)
- 1 1/2 tsp cooking salt
- 2 tsp black pepper (reduce to 1/2 tsp for kid-friendly)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 200°C/400°F (180°C fan). Place a rack connected a foil lined tray. Spray rack with oil.
- Crumbing bowls – Place the flour, whisked eggs and panko successful 3 abstracted mean bowls (bear successful caput signifier to acceptable the drumsticks!).
- Mix Seasoning successful a tiny bowl. Put 1 tablespoonful into the flour and the remainder successful the panko, past mix.
- Crumb – Pat drumsticks adust with insubstantial towels. Coat successful flour (shake disconnected excess), past ovum (let excess drip off). Place successful panko and rotate, pressing to adhere each over, including the handle. (Note 3 for mess-free hands technique!)
- Spray – Place drumstick connected the rack. Repeat with remaining chicken. Spray precise generously with oil.
- Bake 25 minutes. Turn drumsticks, spray again with oil. Bake a further 20 minutes until aureate brownish and ace crunchy!
- Serve Eat and bask the CRUNCH!
Notes
- Honey mustard sauce: Mix unneurotic 1/3 cupful whole-egg mayonnaise, 2 tbsp dijon mustard, 2 tbsp honey, 1 – 2 tsp citrus foodstuff (sub vinegar), brackish and pepper.
- Pink condiment – 1/2 cupful (100g) sour pick + 3 tbsp ketchup
- Ketchup, BBQ condiment oregon different store bought condiment of choice
Nutrition
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