Baked Chicken Drumsticks

All in one chicken and vegetables. Choose your seasonal veggies, chicken drumsticks, cover in flavorful seasoning, bake and serve.

We absolutely love whole roasted chicken dinners and have shared our Herbed Chicken Roast, Spicy Spatchcock, Turmeric Chicken, and even our garlic free chicken and roast potato. Sometimes however, the drumsticks are a better choice especially when you're going to be serving it picnic style. You know when everyone can help themselves to a crispy skin drumstick and crunchy potatoes? Don't worry the roasted veggies are also so good they will tempt the not so big vegetable lovers in your life.

Chicken Drumsticks

Start by mixing the 13 spice (for all your chicken dishes) and the Paprika Dry Rub for a bit of a kick. Don't forget to add a pinch of salt and taste as you go, always. To this spice blend add extra virgin olive oil and a squeeze of fresh lemon juice and cover the chicken drumsticks in it.

We are never without our Smell and Taste Paprika Dry Rub, it's great for sprinkles, meat rubs and vegetables. This is a blend of robust, North African and South African spices to help give the food that striking 'va va voom' when needed.

You can set that aside and get on with roasting the vegetables.

Roasted Vegetables

Bell Peppers - Beautiful vegetable and so versatile, love them! Use them in this creamy pasta dish too if you have some left over. If you're looking for a roasted bell pepper recipe, take a look at this one.

Suggestion on cutting the bell peppers

I find that cutting the bell peppers from the sides first and then removing the seeds is an easier quicker way of cleaning them. We season as we go when prepping and roasting veggies, and don't be shy to properly coat them, the seasoning and oil coating adds lots of flavor!

For the vegetables I use Smell and Taste's Vegetable Spice or Garlic & Herb and Salt and Pepper.

Ingredients

Chicken - I've used chicken drumsticks because they're easier to serve picnic style but you can use thighs too.

Bell peppers - You don't need to use all three colors, if you going with a bit of a sweet taste go with the red, yellow or orange. I find the green sometimes strong but once roasted they have a mellow taste to them.

Potatoes - Any potatoes, cut into reasonable uniformed sizes but please don't stress about it.

Spices - By biggest kitchen ingredient, seasoning and spices. Use fresh herbs for garnish.

Beetroot - You can use whatever vegetable is in season where you are. Colorful beets were used in this recipe and cut small to keep up the cooking time.

Carrots - Washed, peeled and cut at an angle but please it's carrots chop them the way you like.

Red wine vinegar - I always love a sprinkle of red wine vinegar when roasting beets, it adds its own depth of flavors to root vegetables.

Garlic - I will eat roasted garlic alone I love it so much. You can also use it in this Baba Ganoush Recipe

Potatoes - There was no way I was going to make a baked chicken drumstick dinner with veggies and not make potatoes! Roasted potatoes finish the meal and hey it's high starch content makes it a carb which means it's filling.

In this recipe the potatoes are baked at the same time as the chicken and other veg, however, if you have an air fryer you can cut the time short and cook them in the air fryer first. When I made this tender fall apart lamb roast I started the potatoes off in the air fryer and once the meat was almost done I tossed them into the same pan to finish cooking.

How To Make This Chicken and Vegetable Dish

Three steps;

Preheat the oven to 180°C.

Season Add the veggies, potatoes included in one bowl and add the chicken to another. Season with all the spices, salt, pepper, oil on each the veg and chicken.

Roast Get it all onto a baking tray, give it a shake. A squeeze of fresh lemon, drizzle of olive oil, and a sprinkle of salt is suggested but taste for seasoning. Bake on the middle shelf for 50 minutes to an hour. Check the chicken in the thickest part for doneness. If the juice runs clear, its ready.

Serve Serve on a platter with fresh herbs.

How To Serve This Chicken and Vegetables

We hardly ever have a side dish with this because it's normally quite a large meal however, should you want a side, try these ideas;

• Celery Salad
• Raw Carrot Salad
• Mango Salad
• Cucumber and Onion Salad
• Simple Crunchy Kale Salad, Chickpeas and Fresh Lemon

Another great idea for this dish is sauces and dips, some ideas;

• Chimichurri Sauce
• Tomato Sauce
• Easy Braai Sauce Recipe
• Baba Ganoush Recipe
• Roasted Red Pepper Dip Recipe

I promise that chicken, potatoes and veg are so crispy and crunchy that a dip or sauce works so much better than a salad, but you can do both why not! I just need to dunk them into a sauce and have some nice crusty bread on the side.

More Delicious Recipes To Try

• Spicy Spatchcock Chicken Recipe
• Chicken In Tomato Sauce Recipe
• Chicken Roast
• Grilled Chicken Breast
• Oven Baked Flavorful Chicken Breasts
• Turmeric Chicken & Potato Roast

Should you take a photo of your chicken and drumsticks and share it on Instagram, please tag me @anosmickitchen and use the hashtag #anosmickitchen because I love seeing your personal remake! Happy cooking????

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