Something nice with chicken drumsticks, please?

[oregonianabroad]

Was thinking of in the oven, a nice brown sugar type thing perhaps?

garlic cloves (whole) and roughly chopped lemon pieces (leave skin on). Bit of oil (coat your hands and rub over) sea salt, pepper. delicious.

That sounds lovely -- how long and at what temp?

It depends on how many drumsticks you're cooking and/or whether the tray is full.

I tend to cram my roasting tin completely full, squash the cloves and lemon chunks down between the chicken, oil, s+p, then in the oven (mine's a fan electric) temp 180-200 for about 40 mins or so. It may need a little longer, just check near the time (clear juices etc).

The juices left over are fabulous in mash instead of butter and milk.

That does sound good, I might try that myself at some point.

Another idea is to grill them. Takes only 15 minutes or so to grill drumsticks. Marinate them with a sauce made up of ketchup, chopped garlic, mixed herbs, salt, pepper olive oil, lemon and a splash of wine/vinegar. The wine/vinegar is key. Grill under hot grill and turn quite frequently - if the skin gets a bit blistered, that's good, it tastes yummy that way.

OhBling - that sounds yummy too, but I'm lazy so over roasting is usually my choice

or even oven roasting

Both sound really nice, and I like your tip about the juices in mash, 12st (YUM).

my original idea was something like mustard, brown sugar & treacle with some onion over the top, cover with foil & roast.

But might try one of these instead (thus preventing likely kitchen disaster!).

thanks.

I hear you on the lazy but I'm greedy - cooking it in 20 minute instead of 40 always works for me!

But I'm going to try the oven thing - I love lemon and garlic and think it will be delicious and easy.

What do you serve them with, 12st?

It is!!

It's my frequent fall-back meal and so easy. Tastes like you've been slaving over a hot stove for hours

Stir-fried cabbage. DEAD easy!!

Finely shred the cabbage (savoy is best) - takes seconds with the right knife - tiny bit of oil in a wok, chuck cabbage in (it'll seem way too much at first) then keep turning the cabbage in the oil. It'll be nicely wilted in about a minute and, bonus, your kitchen/house won't stink afterward.

Perfect, I actually have cabbage in the house (alas, not savoy, but it'll do).

I'll let you know how it goes, mmmmmmmm!!

I'm sure any of the greener varieties will do it - I've never tried it with a drumhead but spring is just as good.

Spring is what I've got.

I don't suppose you know anything about touring caravans???? No one is answering my other thread.

Ah sorry no... but Steve Bury (Rock Radio, Manchester) is an absolute fanatic. Bores talks about it at length most mornings

Right, will listen! Ta.

Ds2 awake, off now to sort dinner.

I mix Mango Chutney with a little garlic and sy sauce and spead it onto chicken drumsticks, (also works well with sewwt chilli sauce) then bake or grill them and they go all sticky and sweet, it is sooooo yum!

If you're not near Manchester the reception is shocking, but you can listen through the website Steve Berry and his caravan fetishes!!

marmalade chicken is lovely
cube some potatoes and chop onion into wedges put them in tin with oil add sprinkle of chilli ( i don't if doing for dc)
roast for 10 min
warm marmalade in pan , score chicken and coat chicken with marmalade.
Then add to tin with onion and potatoes raost for another 25 min then add some chopped red pepper and cook for another 15 min.
Serve with some nice veggies yummy

Spoiled for choice now! And thanks for the link 12stone!

Kitchen is smelling sooooo good, 12st. thank you.

Mmm... maybe this is what we will have for supper. I was just thinking about what we could have. And then we could have leftovers tomorrow? or I could as DP is out tomorrow night.

HTH

Fabulous dinner, thank you 12st. I added about 3 tbsp of white wine and 1 tbsp of herbes de provance; used your tip for the mash & we had carrots and cabbage too. delicious!

PS Have some leftover for tomorrow, am going to do a big Morrocan couscous thingie to have with them.