Sweet and Sticky Oven Baked BBQ Chicken Drumsticks

Sweet and Sticky Oven Baked BBQ Chicken Drumsticks

No need for a grill when you can make this easy and delicious chicken legs in your oven! A few tweaks to store bought bbq sauce and you are set!

Course Main Course

Cuisine American

Prep Time 5

Cook Time 40

Total Time 45

Servings

Calories 455kcal

Equipment

Ingredients

2 lbs chicken legs
1 cup barbecue sauce
¼ cup orange marmalade
3 cloves garlic minced
1 tbsp spicy brown mustard

Instructions

Preheat oven to 400.
Combine barbecue sauce, marmalade, garlic and mustard in a small bowl. Reserve ¼ cup.
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and spread out the chicken legs. Brush the tops with half of the barbecue sauce.
Bake for 20 minutes.
Turn legs over and brush the other side with the rest of the sauce. If you have a convection oven, you can turn it on now.
Bake for 20 more minutes or until thermometer inserted in thickest part of the leg reads 165 degrees Fahrenheit.
Drizzle with the remaining sauce.

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Notes

Note - I gave a weight for the chicken legs, but really it depends on how many each person will eat. In this case I used 10 chicken legs.

To brown the legs a bit more, I turned on my convection oven for the second half of the baking. If you don't have a convection oven and want to brown the legs more, you could place them under the broiler, but remove the parchment paper first!

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