Buttermilk Roast Chicken

Name: Buttermilk Roast Chicken
Prep time: 2 h 40 min
Cook time: 2 h 40 min
Total time: 2 h 40 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 473 milliliters buttermilk; 12 chicken drumsticks (approximately 3 pounds total weight); 2 cloves garlic, bruised and skins removed; 1 teaspoon ground cumin; 1 Tbsp maple syrup; 1 Tbsp crushed peppercorns; 1 Tbsp Maldon salt, sea salt or 1 1/2 teaspoons table salt; 59 milliliters vegetable oil

Need a gluten free main course? Buttermilk Roast Chicken could be an outstanding recipe to try. This recipe serves 6. One portion of this dish contains about 30g of protein, 26g of fat, and a total of 387 calories. This recipe covers 16% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. If you have buttermilk, maple syrup, vegetable oil, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the ground cumin you could follow this main course with the Moroccan Chocolate Mousse as a dessert.

Instructions

Place the chicken drumsticks in a large freezer bag, and add the buttermilk and 1/4 cup of oil.

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Chicken Drumsticks

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Add the bruised garlic cloves to the bag with the crushed peppercorns and salt.

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Whole Garlic Cloves

Peppercorns

Salt

Sprinkle in the ground cumin and finally add the maple syrup, and then squish everything in the freezer bag around to mix the marinade and coat the chicken.

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Ground Cumin

Maple Syrup

Marinade

Whole Chicken

Leave the buttermilk marinated chicken in the fridge ideally overnight or out of the fridge for at least 30 minutes and up to 2 hours.

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Buttermilk

Whole Chicken

Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F. Take the chicken pieces out of the bag shaking off the excess marinade, and then arrange them in a roasting tin lined with foil.

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Chicken Pieces

Marinade

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Aluminum Foil

Oven

Drizzle over the 2 remaining tablespoons of oil, and then roast in the oven for about 30 minutes, or until brown, even scorched in parts, and juicily cooked through.

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Cooking Oil

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Oven