Southern

BBQ Chicken Drumsticks

Name: BBQ Chicken Drumsticks
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Southern
Ingredients: 8 chicken drumsticks; 1 cup barbecue sauce; 1 tbsp olive oil; 1 tsp garlic powder; 1 tsp onion powder; 1 tsp smoked paprika; 1 tsp salt; 1/2 tsp black pepper

Arlene @arlene_memphis

BBQ Chicken Drumsticks is Southern home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

40 min Easy Gluten free Dairy free Halal

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

8 chicken drumsticks
1 cup barbecue sauce
1 tbsp olive oil
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp onion powder
1 tsp smoked paprika
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp black pepper

How to cook it

Heat the oven to 400F and line a baking sheet with foil.
Pat the drumsticks dry, toss with the olive oil, garlic powder, onion powder, smoked paprika, salt and pepper, and arrange them on the sheet.
Bake 25 minutes, then brush generously with barbecue sauce.
Bake 15 minutes more, brushing with more barbecue sauce halfway, until the chicken reaches 165F and the glaze is sticky.

Serve it with

A Southern dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside BBQ Chicken Drumsticks, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The cooked vegetable
- Fried Okra
  
  25 min
What it is eaten with
- Buttermilk Biscuits
  
  30 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. BBQ Chicken Drumsticks carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.

Every tracked allergen in BBQ Chicken Drumsticks
Allergen	In this dish
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	No
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 420 kcal
Protein: 34 g
Carbs: 18 g
Fat: 24 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sugar: 14 g
Sodium: 620 mg
Saturated fat: 6 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

BBQ Chicken Drumsticks takes about 40 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at dinner. It is at its best in summer, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.