Baked chicken drumsticks (烤鸡腿)

 

This is an easy no-fuss meal to cook, and the children love it. You can eat it as it is or add a side salad. 

Ingredients

1 large onion
4 potatoes
White button mushrooms
Salt and pepper

1 chicken drumstick per person

Pull the skin back and make slits on the flesh

Season with freshly ground salt and pepper
Pull the skin back over the flesh

Cover the chicken with cling film and let it marinate for an hour or more

Heat some oil in a pan and fry the chicken drumsticks

Remove when the drumsticks are slightly browned

Alternatively, you can use the air fryer to fry the drumsticks
Set the air fryer temperature at 190 degrees

Set the timer for 17 minutes
Turn it on for 1 minute to warm up so the chicken won’t stick to the basket

Put the chicken into the fryer and start cooking

Turn the chicken over halfway through
Remove and set aside

Wash and cut the potatoes into chunks
Place in a baking tray with the corn
Season with olive oil and some rosemary or mixed herbs

Wash and slice the mushrooms
Place the mushrooms on the potatoes

Place the drumsticks on the mushrooms

Peel, wash and slice the onions
Place the onions on the chicken

Pour the chicken juices from the air fryer onto the onions

Cover with a sheet of baking paper

Cover with a sheet of tin foil

Bake in the oven at 210 degrees C for one hour

Remove the baking sheet and tin foil
Let the chicken brown and then it is ready for serving

Remove from the oven and serve