Baked Italian Chicken Drumsticks

These baked Italian chicken drumsticks are amazingly juicy and amazingly flavorful! They’re also amazingly quick and easy to make!

We marinate our chicken in a simple but delicious marinade to make these baked Italian chicken drumsticks. Our chicken turn out moist, juicy, and incredibly delicious. You can also easily double this recipe if you’d like to make a larger batch!

Let’s talk about our chicken!

I like to cook using a variety of cuts of chicken, including everything from boneless skinless chicken breasts to a whole cut up chicken. For this dish, I used chicken drumsticks. Chicken drumsticks are dark meat chicken which makes them a bit higher in calories and fat than white meat chicken. But they’re also incredibly flavorful. Chicken breasts and wings are considered white meat, while thighs and drumsticks are considered dark meat. If you’d like, instead of drumsticks, you can use other bone-in and skin on chicken pieces to make this dish, but you may have to increase the cooking time to ensure your chicken is cooked to a minimum of 165 degrees. Some good options to use either in place of or in addition to drumsticks include bone-in chicken thighs, chicken leg quarters, or bone-in split chicken breasts.

How do I make these baked Italian chicken drumsticks?

This is an easy dish to make, but there are a few things you can do to ensure your chicken turns out perfectly every time. I used 3 pounds of chicken drumsticks which came out to 8 drumsticks. 2 drumsticks constitute one serving for this chicken. The marinade for our dish contains just 6 ingredients, but it makes our chicken both juicy and flavorful. You can marinate your chicken for as little as 30 minutes. Alternately, you can cover and refrigerate your chicken and marinate 2 to 4 hours or overnight. When you’re ready to bake your chicken, you’ll simply drizzle a couple of tablespoons of the marinade onto a rimmed baking sheet before placing your chicken pieces onto the sheet. You’ll want to discard the remaining marinade. Last, when baking your chicken, you’ll want to make sure you cook it to an internal temperature of at least 165 degrees.

What are some ways I can serve these baked Italian chicken drumsticks?

You have some awesome low carb options for serving this chicken. It’s a perfect dish to serve for lunch or dinner, or even for a brunch meal. You could also serve this chicken as a meaty appetizer for parties or to bring to potlucks if you’d like. This chicken pairs well with any cooked vegetable. Some great low carb options include asparagus, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage dishes, cauliflower, green beans, and spinach dishes. You can also serve a low carb mashed dish with this chicken. A couple of our family favorites include mashed kohlrabi and mashed turnips and rutabagas. You can also make some keto chicken gravy to serve with your meal. Another great option is to serve your chicken with a side of keto biscuits, chaffles, cornbread, or English muffins.

Here are some keto green bean dishes that would pair perfectly with this chicken!

Bacon and Brown Sugar Keto Green Beans

Dad’s Keto Green Beans

Keto Green Beans with Tomatoes

Keto Sour Cream Green Beans

Helpful Hints:

*You can marinate your chicken for as little as 30 minutes, or you can cover it and refrigerate for a couple of hours or overnight.

*You can use other cuts of chicken to make this dish, but you may have to adjust your cooking time to ensure your chicken gets cooked to at least 165 degrees.

Main Kitchen Equipment and Utensils:

• Large mixing bowl
• Measuring cup
• Measuring spoons

Splash of Encouragement:

***You have given him his heart’s desire, And have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah  Psalm 21:2***