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Sticky Chicken Drumsticks are gorgeously delicious. They belong in the chicken drumstick recipes hall of fame because they are THAT good!
For these sweet and spicy {and STICKY!} Asian BBQ Drumsticks, I fried up some chicken, made a bbq sauce with the Bonne Maman Golden Plum Mirabelle Preserves, glazed these bad boys like there was no tomorrow and baked it right on there until brown and sticky. They were perfection and I ate most of them before my husband and daughter got home from running errands one evening. I’m nice like that.
Anyways, you must make these because they are uber yummy and the pinnacle of umami. I just wanted to use the word Umami.
But they are amazing and should be made for your next party, football game or dinner party. Easy enough for every day, but special enough for company. The printable is below.
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Sticky Chicken Drumsticks
Ingredients
For the Asian BBQ Sauce-
- 1 cup Bonne Maman Golden Plum Mirabelle Preserves
- 4 cloves garlic minced
- 1/2 cup soy sauce
- 1/2 cup hoisin sauce
- 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
- 3 tablespoons sesame oil
- 1 teaspoon ground dried ginger
- 4 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
- 1/2 teaspoon ground coriander
- 2 teaspoons dijon mustard
- pepper to taste
For the Chicken-
- 10 chicken drumsticks about 4 lbs
- salt and pepper to taste
- oil for frying {peanut, canola or vegetable oil}
- sesame seeds for garnish
Instructions
- Pour 1 1/2 inches oil into a deep cast iron skillet or large pot and preheat oil to 350 degrees.
- In a small saucepan, combine all ingredients for Asian BBQ sauce. Cook over medium heat until it simmers lightly and dissolve the sugar. Reduce heat to low.
- Rinse chicken drumsticks in water and pat dry with paper towels. You want the chicken to be very dry! Sprinkle with salt and pepper on all sides. Place half the chicken into the hot oil and cook 8 minutes per side or until browned and chicken registers 165 degrees internally with a thermometer. Remove to paper towel lined plate and cook the other half of the chicken. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Once all the chicken is cooked, place into large bowl and toss with half the prepared BBQ sauce. Place coated drumsticks onto parchment paper lined baking sheets and spoon over any remaining sauce from the bottom of the bowl. Bake 8-10 minutes or until browned and caramelized. Remove from oven, sprinkle with sesame seeds if desired and serve with remaining BBQ sauce from the pot.
- Delicious with steamed veggies and rice, or just by themselves.
Hi, sesame oil is a very strong flavor. I just want to double check that your BBQ Sauce recipe actual calls for 3 Tablespoons or should it be 3 Teaspoons? Looking forward to hearing back from you.
Hello! This recipe looks amazing! Wondering if you or anyone have tried it on pork? Seems like the flavors would pair well for pork, but not sure? Thanks for anybody’s input!
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How much do I like jam? I give it a strong 10!! And it’s SO much better than jelly.
Hello, I love your Asian BBQ recipe. It’s the best I’ve ever made!
I made this sauce for dinner last night to go on the chicken strips on sticks with rice recipe that you also posted. I couldn’t find the plum preserves so I bought the cherry one from the same company. I figured it would probably be close enough. I made 1/2 a recipe and used it on a pound of chicken. I ended up with about 6oz leftover. I LOVED IT!!! My kids loved it! It was so yum! The cherry jam was a bit chunky (which my 7yo got a kick out of). I will make this again and again and again. I’m wondering how long you think this will last in the fridge (or should/could I freeze it)? I’d like to keep this on hand. It didn’t occur to me to make this before hand so that it was cooled down enough to not cook the chicken as it marinaded. I’m going to use it to dip all sorts of things in! Also, this wasn’t spicy. Maybe my pepper flakes were just too darn old. But my 22 month old ate it with no problem. Oh, and I used a bit of cumin because I didn’t have coriander and I thought they were probably similar. In the end I didn’t “taste” it so who knows if I even put enough in. Anyhow, 5 stars! So good!!
i have to make these! i already liked LL on FB, now i signed for newsletters from both. bonne maman jams look so good. everything gets a 10+ from me!
I love Jam! I would give it a 10 out of 10!
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