In this Charred Chipotle Chicken recipe, inexpensive drumsticks are baked with onion and then topped with a thick, sweet sauce consisting of chipotle peppers in adobo sauce, vinegar, brown sugar, and more. This is certainly an easily family pleasing main!
1largewhite onion,peeled, halved, and cut into 1/4 inch slices
1/4cupwater
½teaspoonsalt
¼teaspoonground black pepper
1cupketchup
2wholecanned chipotle peppers,finely minced
3tablespoonscanned adobe sauce
2tablespoonswhite vinegar
2tablespoonsbrown sugar
1tablespoonlow sodium soy sauce
¼cuphoney
½teaspoongarlic powder
½teaspoonground cumin
Parsley for garnish,optional
Instructions
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F.
Place the chicken drumsticks into a 9 x 13 inch baking dish.
Pour in the water and nestle the sliced onions around the chicken.
Evenly distribute the salt and ground black pepper over the chicken. Cover the baking dish tightly with aluminum foil and bake for one hour.
In the meantime, with the exception of the parsley, measure the remaining ingredients into a bowl and whisk together to combine.
After the one hour has passed, remove the chicken from the oven, remove the aluminum foil and discard it.
Baste the chicken with half of the sauce mixture and return to the oven for 20 minutes.
Once again, remove the chicken from the oven. Baste with the remaining sauce and place back in the oven.
Switch your oven setting from bake to broil at 500 degrees.
Broil the chicken for 3-5 minutes. Watch carefully! Depending on how fast your oven broiler heats up, the chicken could burn. You want the sauce to slightly char on the top, but not burnt.
Remove from oven, sprinkle fresh cut parsley on top and serve immediately.