Kevin's Watch

*Makes 8 servings
**Begin early in day ar day ahead

1 cup orange juice
1 tablespoon salad oil
1 tablespoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
3 lbs. chicken drumsticks (1 large or 2 small drumsticks per person)
1 1/4 cups quick-cooking oats, uncooked
1/4 cup butter or margarine


1. In 13" by 9" baking dish, mix first 4 ingredients(blue font); add chicken, turning to coat well. Refrigerate at least 4 hrs, turning often.

2. About 1 hr before serving: On waxed paper, coat chicken drumsticks with oats.

3. Line jelly-rool pan with foil; add butter and melt in 400degreeF oven. Remove from oven; tilt to spread butter evenly.

4. Arrange drumsticks in one layer in pan, turning to coat with butter.

5. Bake 40 to 50 minutes, or until drumsticks are fork-tender, turning once.

I have this great barbecue sauce that I like to cook drumstix in.....
2 tabs soy sauce
1/3 cup tomato sauce (ketchup)
2 tabs honey
1 tabs brown sugar
2 tabs cider vinegar
1 teas fresh grated ginger
2 cloves garlic crushed
1/4 cup hot water

* just combine all ingredients in a bottle and shake
Pour over drumstix and cook at moderate temp till done.
I like to add a little more garlic, honey and tomato sauce - you can experiment and adjust ingredients according to your own taste.

This sauce is really great for chicken wings and spare ribs as well

Mmm... I'll have to try that.

Turiya Foul,
Hey that sounds nice and simple and healthy. My kinda cookin.
I have no salad oil. Do you think Olive oil will work instead?

Probably. I've tried it.

olive oil is excellent salad oil ..

canola would also suffice .. or sunflower oil .. but the former suggestions are better imho ..

sometimes i like to use sesame oil .. just for that nutty flavour

My mother, back in the day, used to fry our chicken in bacon fat drippings... Thinking back, it tasted sooooo good, but my lord, what was she thinking?

lol what were they all thinking?? dripping and lardy spreads on bread?? ewwww

oh yeah it would've been like .. hey hun .. I'm hungry .. can you get me a nice big fat sandwich .. extra fat!! thanks luvy!! that will go down a treat ..

weirdos .. yeah what were they thinking?? *shakes head*

I was talking to my dad yesterday, and he was telling me about how his parents used to make him eat lard snadwiches when he was young. Ah, lard, everything a growing body needs

Gag-alicious. Tastes just like shoes. mmmm..... Shoes.....

ooh, lard *drools* I haven't had any food cooked in lard for months - my parents switched to foul-tasting vegetable oil :/ Can't get a good chip anywhere these days - not even in my own home

I've never eaten anything that has been cooked in lard. I have a health-conscious family

Not compared to us... you haven't had to eat meatless soybean meatloaf