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Smoked Honey Sriracha Chicken Drumsticks: Easy, Sticky & Crispy

March 5, 2023

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The barely spicy, barely candy Asian flavors in these Smoked Honey Sriracha Chicken Drumsticks make these sticky, crispy rooster legs an actual crowd pleaser! If you want new and thrilling, straightforward and scrumptious tenting dinner recipes, you’ll wish to do that meal.

Smoked Honey Sriracha Chicken Drumsticks by CampingForFoodies features a blue camping plate filled with sticky, golden brown, chicken legs coated in brownish, red BBQ sauce that is glistening from the caramelized sugars, bright green pieces of cilantro are scattered across the glazed meat. — Smoked Honey Sriracha Chicken Drumsticks by CampingForFoodies

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Recipe Prep

The solely prep work it’s important to do right here is soften butter and chop a little bit of garlic.

Prepare In Advance

If you wish to use a home made Sriracha BBQ Sauce, it is perhaps best to make it at residence, then:

At residence: Prepare the Sriracha BBQ Sauce Recipe, retailer in hermetic container and maintain refrigerated till prepared to make use of.
At camp: Let sauce come to room temperature simply earlier than you’re prepared to make use of it.

If you don’t have a favourite recipe, strive my straightforward Sriracha BBQ Sauce Recipe. The flavors are wonderful as a result of it combines sriracha sauce with some honey, soy sauce, cilantro, lime juice and rice vinegar.

Cooking Methods & Equipment

If you will have a campfire going with good hardwood for cooking, like mesquite or oak, you may make this as considered one of your straightforward campfire recipes.

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You may even bake the rooster in a camp or RV oven. Just toss the drumsticks with just a little olive oil, salt, pepper and garlic powder. Bake in 400 F diploma oven for about 40 minutes.

Recipe Steps

Step 1. Prepare rooster. Allow the rooster legs to achieve room temperature earlier than smoking, about 1 hour.

Step 2. Prepare your components, warmth supply and gear as directed. Pre-heat pellet grill smoker to 250 F levels.

Step 3. Toss rooster in garlic butter. Place drumsticks in a big bowl, drizzle with butter and sprinkle garlic and salt over the meat, tossing to coat the entire rooster.

Step 4. Smoke the meat. In an even layer, place drumsticks on smoker grill grate, shut the lid and smoke for about 2 hours. The legs ought to have a crispy texture.

Step 5. Remove rooster and improve smoker temperature. Place the drumsticks in a big dish or on baking sheet. Increase the smoker temperature to 450 F levels.

Step 6. Sauce the meat. While the smoker is coming as much as temperature, toss the rooster in about 1/4 cup Sriracha BBQ Sauce.

Step 7. Return rooster to smoker. Place the sauced rooster legs again on grill grates. Continue cooking for about 20 minutes. You need the sauce to caramelize and to have a sticky consistency .

Step 8. Add extra sauce and serve. Remove the drumsticks from smoker and toss with remaining 1/4 cup Sriracha BBQ Sauce. Serve scorching.

Substitutions

You can use totally different cuts of rooster to make this meal. It is finest to make use of bone-in smaller cuts like wings and thighs.

If you utilize rooster breasts, you’ll must improve the cooking time by 2-3 instances. Make positive the inside half of the breast is 165 F levels.

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Smoked meats make for actually straightforward tenting meals since you do minimal prep and nearly “set it and forget it” in a pellet grill smoker.

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What To Serve With This Recipe

Tossing crispy rooster in honey sriracha sauce is a superb possibility once you want gluten free tenting meals. Keep the gluten out of the meal by including a chilly salad on the facet.

I like making a easy Asian coleslaw to serve with these sriracha drumsticks. I toss shredded inexperienced cabbage with a ginger-flavored dressing and garnish with a couple of sesame seeds and inexperienced onions.

Leftovers

This is one meal the place I don’t “reinvent” the leftovers. I simply refrigerate the drumsticks in an hermetic container, then, wrap in foil and re-heat with medium warmth utilizing scorching campfire coals or an oven.

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