Spicy Honey Chicken Drumsticks

Bake your Spicy Honey Chicken Drumsticks right in their marinade for a moist, delicious meal. The marinade is seasoned with ginger and hot pepper sauce, and flavored with soy sauce and sweet honey. It’s a tasty combination that’s super easy to make.

Do what little measuring and mixing there is to do in making the marinade, then let it sit until ready to bake.

It really is that simple.

Making Spicy Honey Chicken Drumsticks

Set out your 9 x13″ baking dish, as you make everything right inside of it.

Start with the marinade.

Combine the honey, soy sauce, chili sauce, ginger, dry mustard, and hot pepper sauce.

Stir this together and you have your marinade.

A few substitutions: if you don’t have any hot pepper sauce, use crushed red peppers instead.

Also, if you prefer to use fresh ginger, use about 2 tablespoons.

I know it seems like a lot more than what the recipe calls for with the ground ginger, but ground ginger is much more potent than fresh, so you have to use more fresh to get the same flavor.

Next, place your chicken drumsticks in the marinade and turn them so they are evenly coated.

Cover and refrigerate for at least an hour while the marinade does its magic.

You can also make this in the morning, then bake them that night for dinner.

When it is time to bake them, preheat the oven to 375° and uncover the dish.

Bake in the marinade for 50 – 60 minutes, or until the internal temperature reaches 165°.

Also, turn the drumsticks over half-way through the bake time to re-coat the chicken.

Making Spicy Honey Chicken Drumettes

Make this same recipe, but as an appetizer.

Use a dozen drumettes, which is the meaty part of a chicken wing, and half the marinade recipe.

Also, the baking dish can be smaller, something like a 7 x 11″.

The cook time is similar, maybe slightly less time, but with the same tasty, delicious results.

These are delicious served with Slow Cooker Cheesy Ham Au Gratin (as pictured below), or with Less Boring Wild Rice.

More Chicken Recipes:

• Fiesta Chicken and Rice
• Creamy Italian Chicken Skillet
• Tex-Mex Chicken Casserole

…and for the slow cookers we have…

• Honey Garlic Chicken
• Fiesta Chicken
• Apricot Chicken

Or, go to my search bar on my site and enter “chicken” for a full list.

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Spicy Honey Chicken Drumsticks

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