Sweet and Spicy Garlic chicken Drumsticks
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Serves: 4 drumsticks
 
Ingredients
  • Chicken Drumsticks – 4
  • Buttermilk – ½ cup
  • Breadcrumbs – ½ cup
  • Cornmeal – 2 tsp
  • Olive oil – 2 tsp
  • Flour – ¼ cup
  • Dried oregano – 1 tbsp
  • Salt – 1tbsp
  • Black pepper – 1 tsp
  • Paprika – 1 tspSauce:
  • Garlic cloves – 2, crushed
  • Ginger – 1 inch, crushed
  • Soy sauce – ½ cup
  • Lemon juice – 2 tbsp
  • Lemon zest – 1 tsp
  • Brown sugar – 1 tbsp
  • Honey – 2 tbsp
  • salt - 1 tsp
  • Chilli sauce – 2 tbsp
  • Chilli flakes - 2 tsp
  • Coriander leaves to garnish
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 450 degrees. Line a baking sheet with foil and place a metal cooling rack on top if you have one, it can work without, too.
  2. Take a drumstick and make few deep cuts in each drumstick.Keep buttermilk in one bowl. Soak the chicken in the buttermilk.
  3. Take another bowl and mix the breadcrumbs, cornmeal, olive oil, paprika, oregano, salt and pepper. Remove the chicken one piece at a time, let the buttermilk drip off and gently press into this breadcrumb mixture.
  4. Place the chicken on the baking sheet and bake for ten minutes. After ten minutes, flip it to the other side and bake for 10 minutes.
  5. Meanwhile when the chicken bakes, mix all the ingredients nicely. Put the sauce in a skillet over medium low heat and let it simmer for a while.
  6. When the chicken is done, dip each piece in the sauce and return to the baking sheet. And bake for 5 minutes.
  7. Finally re-dip in that sauce and rest for two minutes and serve straight away with the garnish.
Notes
If you do not have buttermilk, you can use milk with spoonful of vinegar
Recipe by Relish The Bite at https://www.relishthebite.com/sweet-and-spicy-garlic-chicken-drumsticks/