Bbq Sauce Chicken Legs In Oven

Square baking dish coated with cooking spray.

Bbq sauce chicken legs in oven.

Choose a good quality one with lots of flavor. Just a few ingredients are needed for easy bbq chicken drumsticks baked in the oven. In a large nonstick skillet brown chicken in oil transfer to an 8 in. Place the chicken legs in a large mixing bowl sprinkle with the salt and coat with 1 2 cup of the bbq sauce cover and marinate for 30 minutes in the fridge.

Bake until the internal temperature registers 160 degrees f with an instant read thermometer about 30 35 minutes. Adds a delicious sweetness to the sauce. How to make bbq chicken in oven. Once the legs and thighs go into the casserole dish brush or spoon the remaining sauce over each leg and thigh and cover with aluminum foil.

Bake covered and uncovered. Broil for extra 1 2 minutes to crisp. This way the chicken legs and thighs will have big bbq sauce flavor on both sides. Cooking times vary based on size of drumsticks.

To bake chicken preheat oven to 350 degrees f. A quick marinade in the barbecue sauce before roasting helps enhance the flavor and improve the tenderness of the chicken. Add chicken to remaining barbecue sauce. Adds loads of flavor and a thick saucy coating.

Place chicken onto rimmed baking sheet or a skillet coated with a bit of olive oil. Coat chicken leg with bbq sauce just enough to coat entire leg about 1 tbsp. Taking cues from the grilled version of this recipe the chicken gets a quick sear under the broiler to brown the skin and then a longer roast in the oven until the chicken is completely tender. With the skin on see why below bbq sauce.

The baked bbq chicken legs and thighs will first bake covered at 350 for 3o minutes. Loved this so simple to make i cooked it two different ways the first i put 5 drumsticks on a indoor grill crisped them than went 25 min in oven at 400 the other i made 6 ds like the recipe enough sauce for total of 11 drumsticks both tasty and delicious one was crispy the other was more moist. Cover and refrigerate for at least 1 hour and up to overnight. In a small bowl combine the ketchup worcestershire sauce sugar vinegar steak sauce and hot pepper sauce.

Using a silicone brush coat chicken with bbq sauce and bake at 400ᵒ another 20 to 25 minutes or until the chicken is done 165ᵒ turning the heat up to 450ᵒ the last 5 minutes to caramelize.