How to Cook Chicken Drumsticks

Ummm..! Isn’t it mouth watering to gaze at a picture of superbly grilled chicken drumsticks adequately garnished with all the proper ingredients? How you wish that the pages would come to life and you could have a taste of the dish. Well, there is nothing to worry. You can make this sumptuous dish at home and even treat your guests to it. It is not at all difficult to make it once you have all the ingredients at hand. So why wait? Let us learn how to cook chicken drumsticks and moisten our taste buds to have it as soon as it is made.

1. Take about 6 – 10 drumsticks and marinate them well. You can do the marinating about 1 hour prior to cooking. For the marinating, you can start by taking a large zip lock. Place the chicken drumsticks inside it. You can take more than one zip lock if the need be.

2. Add about 4 tablespoons of soya sauce to the zip lock. This will add a lot of taste to the chicken and will make it soft too. How To Cook Chicken Drumsticks How to Cook Chicken Drumsticks

3. The next step is to add about 4 tablespoons of hoisin sauce again to the chicken drumsticks. This will also work wonders in softening the chicken and increasing the taste.

4. Then comes the time to add 2 cloves of garlic for taste. You can either crush the garlic or pulverize into paste before adding to the chicken.

5. If you have herbs de province or oregano, you can add 1 teaspoon of it to the zip lock. You can be sure that your chicken drumsticks will look and smell wonderful after it is made.

6. Then last but not the least, add salt and pepper to taste. Then mix all the ingredients along with the chicken drumsticks to make a thorough mix. Now that the chicken is all set to be marinated, you can put it in the refrigerator for an hour. We will then learn how to cook chicken drumsticks by making a barbecue.

7. Set the barbecue on medium heat. Heat it sufficiently well so that the chicken can cook well. You can put your hands above the grill and see if you can stand the heat. Don’t keep your hand there for a long time lest you burn yourself.

8. Next, you can retrieve the chicken drumsticks from the zip locks inside the refrigerator and put them on the grill leaving some space in between. It is time to cover the grill and allow the chicken to cook.

9. Allow 5 minutes to elapse and check the chicken. You can turn it around so that the other side gets cooked too. Continue this process until you are sure that the entire chicken drumsticks are cooked and uniformly brown throughout. The whole process should be over within 15 minutes.

Well, how does the preparation look? Yummy, isn’t it? You can make a salad to go along with the chicken drumsticks and garnish with lemon and some coriander. The taste will undoubtedly be mouth-watering. Now that you know how to cook chicken drumsticks, invite your friends over and treat them to this delicious dish. You are sure to be flooded with compliments.