One Pot Chicken Drumstick Bake

Let me start by telling you a joke about chicken legs.

A man was driving along a rural road one day when he saw a three legged chicken running down the road. He was amused enough to drive along side it for a while, as he was driving he noticed the chicken was running 30 mph.

Pretty fast chicken, he thought, I wonder just how fast it can run. So he sped up and the chicken did too! They were now moving along the road at 45 mph!

The man in the car sped up again, to his surprise the chicken was still running ahead of him at 60 mph!!!

Suddenly the chicken turned off the road and ran down a long driveway leading to a farmhouse. The man followed the chicken to the house and saw a man in the yard with dozens of three legged chickens. The man in the car called out to the farmer "How did you get all these three legged chickens?"

The farmer replied, "I breed 'em. Ya see it's me, my wife and my son living here and we all like to eat the chicken leg. Since a chicken only has two legs, I started breeding this three legged variety so we could all eat our favorite piece."

"That's amazing!" said the driver "How do they taste?"

"Don't rightly know, I ain't caught one yet!"

Well I'm thankful that I don't have to catch a three legged one for my family and friends to relish the spicy tangy drumsticks. Invariably, chicken becomes a part of the variety of finger food you like to serve to your guests. So my tryst to try out new ways of making these continues. Here's one easy, delicious and fool proof way of making chicken drumsticks.

Ingredients

Chicken drumsticks 1 kg Curd - 250 ml Ginger and garlic paste 1 tbsp each Chilly flakes - 1 tsp or as per taste Onion powder - 2 tbsp Mint/coriander paste - 1 tbsp Coriander powder - 1 tsp Chilly powder - 1 tsp Oil - 2 tbsp

Method

Marinate chicken drumsticks in curd, ginger and garlic paste, chilly flakes, onion powder (onions fried till golden brown and crushed), mint/ coriander paste, coriander powder and chilly powder ( just for colour - I used Kashmiri chilly powder) and oil. The chicken should be marinated overnight or a minimum of 4 hours to enable it to absorb the marinade.

Line the chicken in a baking dish and bake in the oven for a minimum of 60 - 70 mins at 200 degree C. Turn the drumsticks once or twice over to get an equally golden colour on all the sides.

It cannot get easier than this right?

Some tips

1. Chicken drumsticks with skin on makes the chicken more juicier inside. 2. If you like orange or lemon flavour in you chicken just add in the respective wedges before baking!! It adds a great flavor to your chicken. 3. As an alteration you can add baby potato or zucchini in the baking dish along with the chicken. Keralites try adding boiled kappa ( tapioca) and they come out gorgeously toasted and tastes out of the world!! 4. You can add kabab masala to the marinade to get a spicy Indian flavor.