Oven Baked BBQ Chicken Legs
These oven baked BBQ chicken legs are tender, juicy, and full of sweet and savory flavors. They're a great chicken dinner any day of the week
Servings 4 Servings
Calories 523kcal
Equipment
- medium saucepan
- Baking dish
- Aluminum foil
Ingredients
- 6-7 chicken legs
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper
- 5 tablespoons ketchup
- 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- 3-4 tablespoons water
- 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
- 3 tablespoons unsalted cold butter diced
Instructions
- Set the oven to preheat at 360F. Rinse and pat dry the chicken legs and place in a baking dish.
- Salt the legs and sprinkle with black pepper. Other spices can be used as desired.
- Place ketchup in a saucepan, add Worcestershire sauce, apple cider vinegar, water, sugar, paprika. Stir and heat, stirring, until sugar dissolves.
- Drizzle the sauce over the legs and pour the remaining sauce into a baking dish.
- Put pieces of cold butter on top of the legs.
- Cover the baking dish with foil and place in the preheated oven. Bake for 20 minutes with foil and another 10-15 minutes without foil to brown the legs.
- Make sure that the legs are baked, but at the same time they are not overcooked and do not become dry.
- Serve the legs hot, with the remaining BBQ sauce, fresh herbs.
Notes
Any nutritional data I provide is an approximation and actual dietary information can vary based on ingredients and proportion sizes.
Nutrition
Serving: 1Serving | Calories: 523kcal | Carbohydrates: 9g | Protein: 32g | Fat: 39g | Saturated Fat: 14g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 7g | Monounsaturated Fat: 15g | Trans Fat: 0.5g | Cholesterol: 202mg | Sodium: 681mg | Potassium: 488mg | Fiber: 0.1g | Sugar: 7g | Vitamin A: 540IU | Vitamin C: 2mg | Calcium: 31mg | Iron: 2mg