Oven Baked Barbecue Chicken Legs and Better Home Fries
Chicken leg quarters are a budget friendly cut of meat that tastes great when glazed with several layers of homemade barbecue sauce.
Servings: 4
Ingredients
- Spice mix
- 1 tsp paprika
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp onion powder
- 1 tsp black pepper
- 1 tsp kashmirilal or chili powder order choice
- 1 tsp mixed dried herbs
- 1 tsp salt
- Chicken
- 6 chicken leg quarters
- Half of the spice mix
- Barbecue sauce
- Other half of the spice mix
- 50 ml ketchup
- 0.5 tsp tomato paste
- 1 tbsp molasses
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
- Few drops of liquid smoke
- Home fries
- 1 huge potato
- A few sprigs of rosemary
- A few cloves of garlic
- Salt, pepper and cooking oil to taste
- Vegetables
- 2 heads of broccoli
- 1 cup cherry tomatoes
- Salt, pepper, olive oil and vinegar to taste
Instructions
- The day before, rub chicken with the spice mix. Mix barbecue sauce ingredients together. Refrigerate both overnight.
- Cut potatoes into 1 inch cubes. Microwave potatoes on high for 5 minutes, mix, and microwave for 5 minutes more. Allow to steam off and cool, and refrigerate overnight as well.
- On the day of cooking, roast chicken at 200C/400F for 30 minutes.
- Cut the cherry tomatoes and season to taste. Cut broccoli and reserve.
- Meanwhile, blanche broccoli in boiling water and reserve.
- Once chicken quarters are cooked, brush on a layer of barbecue sauce and bake at the same temperature for 10 minutes. Repeat for a total of 2 or 3 times.
- Meanwhile, discard the water and dry off the pan. Add oil, cook potato cubes until crisp, then stir in garlic and rosemary. Serve hot.