This easy oven-baked or grilled chicken drumsticks recipe is a huge hit! If you love buffalo chicken, this will soon be a family favorite! Grilled Buffalo Chicken drumsticks easy and perfect for football food, an easy weeknight meal, or just about any time of the year.
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If you love all things buffalo, be sure to check out this recipe for Buffalo Chicken Sauce. It's delicious on burgers, steaks, chicken and especially on this drumstick recipe. You'll also love these Buffalo Taquitos and the Best Buffalo Chicken Wings.
Easy Buffalo Chicken Drumsticks Recipe:
These chicken drumsticks can be grilled or baked in the oven. If it's blazing hot outside, there's no way I'm turning on the oven. If I'm hankering for some buffalo chicken in the winter, the oven works great for this recipe too.
Oven-Baked Drumsticks
- Prepare the drumstick and remove any excess skin or fat. Pat dry with a paper towel, sprinkle salt and pepper on the chicken on both sides.
- Place chicken on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake in a preheated 400-degree oven for 30 min. Turn chicken over and bake for another 10 minutes.
- Toss the drumsticks in the prepared buffalo sauce.
- Serve with blue cheese dressing or ranch dressing.
Grilled Drumsticks
- Prepare the drumstick and remove any excess skin or fat. Pat dry with a paper towel, sprinkle salt and pepper on the chicken on both sides.
- Toss Chicken in a drizzle of avocado oil and cook until the internal temperature of the chicken reaches 165 degrees. (Use a meat thermometer or cook until the meat starts to pull away from the drumstick bone. )
- Drizzle or brush the prepared buffalo sauce on the chicken, and serve with blue cheese dressing or ranch dressing.
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How to make Homemade Buffalo Sauce
- Combine the Franks Red Hot Sauce and the brown sugar in a saucepan on the stove.
- Bring the mixture to a boil and simmer for 1 minute.
- Let it cool and then pour it back into the bottle or a covered container and use for pizza, eggs, on chicken or steak.
Tips for Making Buffalo Sauce
- Make the buffalo sauce ahead of time.
- Make an entire bottle at a time.
- Use a funnel and pour it back into the bottle and use it in many different ways.
Buffalo Chicken Drumsticks
Ingredients
Grilled or Baked Chicken Drumsticks
- 6 large chicken drumsticks
- salt and pepper
Homemade Buffalo Sauce
- 1 Cup Brown Sugar
- 1 Cup Franks Red Hot Sauce
Instructions
- Prepare the drumstick and remove any excess skin or fat. Pat dry with a paper towel, sprinkle salt and pepper on the chicken on both sides.
- Place chicken on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake in a preheated 400-degree oven for 30 min. Turn chicken over and bake for another 10 minutes.
- Toss the drumsticks in the prepared buffalo sauce.
- Serve with blue cheese dressing or ranch dressing.
How to Make Homemade Buffalo Sauce
- Combine the Franks Red Hot Sauce and the brown sugar in a saucepan on the stove.
- Bring the mixture to a boil and simmer for 1-2 minutes.
- Let it cool and then pour it back into the bottle or a covered container and use for pizza, eggs, on chicken or steak.
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This easy oven-baked or grilled chicken drumsticks recipe is a huge hit! If you love buffalo chicken, this will soon be a family favorite! Grilled Buffalo Chicken drumsticks easy and perfect for football food, an easy weeknight meal, or just about any time of the year.
Sam
These drumsticks were delicious! We loved them!
The Carefree Kitchen
Sam, So glad you loved them!
Christina
These are so scrumptious. A new family favorite.