Easy, delicious and filling these Honey BBQ Baked Chicken Drumsticks use 5 ingredients and come together in under an hour. The perfect weeknight dinner!
Chicken is one of my most favorite things ever. If I had to choose a meat, it would be chicken all day everyday and thats the truth.
While I love all types of meats, chicken has to be hands down the easiest to work with and you can make a variety of things with it suck as Baked Chicken and Rice, Oven Fried Chicken or this Ranch Baked Breaded Chicken!
Let’s just say that the possibilities are endless, just like the possibilities are endless with these Baked Chicken Drumsticks.
We chose to do do Honey BBQ because 1. It really pairs well with chicken and 2. It is a super simple flavor combination that whips up in minutes.
WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS:
- Using only 5-6 ingredients in the whole recipe it is simple to whip up and can feed a family.
- The sauce baked up and creates a nice sweet and sticky coating for your chicken that is divine.
- You can use skin on or skin of drumsticks depending on how you prefer.
These Honey BBQ Baked Chicken Drumsticks have a secret ingredient in them, and I’m going to tell you what that is….grape jelly.
Yes I know it’s totally not traditional, but it really makes the sauce what it is, sweet and delicious with just a little bit of kick from the BBQ sauce, absolutely perfect.
HOW TO MAKE BAKED CHICKEN DRUMSTICK, STEP BY STEP:
- In a small sauce pan add your bbq sauce, honey and bbq sauce.
- Whisk over medium heat until jelly is just melted and everything is combined and smooth.
- In a 9″x13″ baking dish lined with tinfoil add your chicken breasts and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
- Pour your sauce over the top, toss to coat and bake at 375 for about 50-55 minutes, basting and turning multiple times throughout then broil for a few minutes on each side until golden.
How much simpler can a recipe get than this one? I swear this recipe is almost fool-proof, and it’s super addicting, you’ll want it all the time.
Now we use the larger sized chicken drumsticks found in stores, we found ours at Walmart in a 5lb bag, they are fresh and larger, but you can use smaller ones as well for this recipe.
HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE FOR DRUMSTICKS TO COOK IN THE OVEN?
While stated above we bake ours at 357 for about 50-55 minutes or until the internal temperature reaches 165 degrees.
These are the larger chicken dummies, but if you are baking smaller ones you can likely reduce the time to about 35-40 minutes, just as long as the internal temperature remains the same and safe to eat.
The reason I love this recipe is so much is because the ease of it, and my whole family loves chicken, so it’s really a win-win for everyone involved.
There are so many different fun recipe you can use to make with chicken drumsticks, that this one is just the tip of the ice berg, but I would absolutely start here!
TIPS AND TRICKS FOR MAKING BAKED CHICKEN DRUMSTICKS:
- We like to use fresh never frozen drumsticks for this recipe.
- Always pat dry your drumsticks before baking.
- Baste repeatedly throughout the cooking process, it makes a lot of sauce and you want that chicken to soak up as much goodness as you can.
- You can use skin on or off drumsticks, personal preference.
- We use larger drumsticks, you can use smaller as well, as long as you use 2.5 lbs.
If you want that perfectly easy recipe for dinnertime then you need to whip up this Honey BBQ Chicken Drumstick recipe!
If you like this recipe you might also like:
- Sweet & Spicy Boneless Chicken Wings
- Sweet and Sour Chinese Chicken
- Honey Pepper Chicken Mac and Cheese
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Honey BBQ Baked Chicken Drumsticks
Ingredients
- 2.5 lbs chicken drumsticks
- salt & pepper to taste
- 1 cup bbq sauce
- 1/3 cup honey
- 1/3 cup grape jelly
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375, line a 9"x13" baking dish with tin foil, set aside.
- In saucepan add your bbq sauce, honey and jelly and heat over medium heat and whisk until jelly is melted and mixture is smoothe.
- Add your chicken drumsticks into prepared pan and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
- Pour sauce over the top and toss to coat.
- Bake in oven 50-55 minutes or until internal temperature reaches 165 degrees, basting and rotating often.
- Broil for a few minutes on each side to crisp up before serving.
Notes
- We like to use fresh never frozen drumsticks for this recipe.
- Always pat dry your drumsticks before baking.
- Baste repeatedly throughout the cooking process, it makes a lot of sauce and you want that chicken to soak up as much goodness as you can.
- You can use skin on or off drumsticks, personal preference.
- We use larger drumsticks, you can use smaller as well, as long as you use 2.5 lbs.
Nutrition
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Sherry
I’ve always loved chicken legs and these was the yummiest of all.😋
Sherry
I’ve always loved Chicken Legs no matter how you fix them, these are one of the yummiest I’ve had. 😋