This Honey Mustard Baked Chicken Drumsticks recipe is a perfect, effortless way to make baked chicken legs in the oven. With a magical 4 baked chicken drumsticks sauce, no marinating required, these chicken drumsticks are golden, sticky and everyone loves them!
Plus an optional side of buttery, crispy smashed potatoes for a drumsticks dinner made on one tray! Sticky Baked Chicken Drumsticks recipe This baked Chicken Drumsticks recipe is one of those gems that you’re going to want to keep in your back pocket. It’s not too sweet, not too salty, it’s finger lickin’ good! Difference between chicken legs and drumsticks? Chicken legs and drumsticks are the same thing. Everybody’s favourite part of Roast Chicken!
There are very few sauces in this world that taste so great with so few ingredients. And it coats the chicken legs so well, making them beautifully sticky! Without cornflour, the sauce is super watery because of all the chicken juices. How to make baked chicken legs Pop the chicken legs on a tray, spoon over sauce and bake!
In this recipe, I’ve completed the meal with a side of crispy smashed potatoes made on the same tray. This makes for easier cleaning up and stops the chicken juices leaking over to the potatoes which makes them soggy instead of crispy! To prepare the potatoes quickly, I just microwave them. Then place on the tray, squish, drizzle with butter or oil. How long does it take to cook drumsticks in the oven? This makes them caramelised on the outside with tender flesh.
While they will cook through in this time, I find that the flesh is a bit too chewy for my taste. One tray winner winner chicken dinner! Throw on a side of steamed veggies of choice and dinner is done. Active effort time: just over 10 minutes. Deliciousness rating: Well, let’s put it this way. Honestly, I have the self control of a child.