Best Spicy Roasted Chicken Legs Recipes

SPICY ROASTED CHICKEN LEGS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F. Line baking sheets with foil.
• Melt the butter in a saucepan. Add the lemon juice, salt, black pepper, cayenne and garlic, and stir. Set aside.
• Rinse and pat the chicken legs dry. With metal tongs, dip them one by one into the butter mixture and place on the prepared baking sheets.
• Once all of the chicken legs are coated and on the baking sheet, take a pastry brush and give them one last coating of the butter mixture.
• Place them into the oven for 30 to 35 minutes, basting a couple of times during roasting. If they need a bit more color, turn on the broiler for a couple minutes and watch them closely.
• Remove them when they are nice and golden brown and fully cooked.

PIONEER WOMAN'S SPICY ROASTED CHICKEN LEGS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Place a rack on a baking sheet. Rinse the chicken legs and pat dry.
• Melt butter in a medium saucepan. Add the lemon juice and hot salt to the butter. Using tongs, dip chicken legs one at a time into the butter mixture, coating all sides. (You may need to tip the pan to get all the legs coated towards the end.) Place legs on the baking rack. Brush the remaing butter mixture on the legs with a pastry brush. Sprinkle with more hot salt.
• Place in the oven and bake for 30 minutes or until done. If you would like them to look more brown you can turn on the broiler for a few minutes but be sure to watch closely so they don't burn. Remove to a platter and serve.

ROASTED CALABAZA WITH SPICY PAPRIKA CHICKEN LEGS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 475. Cut the calabaza into wedges. Clean out all seeds and pulp. Cut away the peels. Put the wedges flat on a baking dish. Drizzle with oil and season with salt and pepper on each side. Bake for fifteen minutes. In the meantime, combine hot sauce, honey the juice of half a lime, paprika, salt and pepper. Dry chicken legs. Combine sauce with chicken legs and make sure everything is evenly covered. Lower temperature to 450 degrees. Put chicken legs in seperate dish, sprinkling additional paprika, and place in the oven. After fifteen minutes, test calabaza. If soft, remove. Probe chicken with thermometer to check if 160 degrees. If not crispy enough, broil for five minutes. Remove chicken and plate.