Hot Honey Chicken Drumsticks | Food Wishes

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Hello, this is Chef John from foodwishes.com with hot honey drumsticks. That's right, we're giving the sweet heat treatment to America's fourth most popular chicken part.

Although, I've heard from some of the cool kids these are gaining in popularity. And I'd like to think this recipe might help the cause. So, with that, let's go ahead and get started by transferring some drumsticks into a zip top bag that we will place in a bowl in case there's leakage.

Oh, and by the way, we're not supposed to call these chicken legs since a drumstick is only half a chicken leg, with the other half, of course, being the thigh. And I only

mention this in case someone calls it that at a party, and you want to be that guy. And that's it. Once our half legs are set, we will move on to our hot honey marinade, which will start not surprisingly with a whole bunch of honey. And I'm using a nice local wildflower honey, although I'm pretty sure anything's going to work here. And then after the sweet, before we get to the heat, we will toss in some onion powder as well as some garlic powder.

Followed by the first of four different hot peppers. And that's going to be some dried chili flakes. And I'm using Aleppo, but anything will work. And then we'll follow that with some dried ground chili in the form of cayenne, of course.