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Honey Mustard Baked Chicken Drumsticks Recipe – delicious tender roasted chicken drumsticks baked in a rich honey mustard sauce.
If you love rich dijon and stone ground mustard, and a slightly-sweet sticky honey glaze, you’re going to LOVE this delicious, easy chicken drumstick recipe!
This recipe is baked to crispy-crunchy perfection, and is keto and low carb diet approved (simply swap or omit the cornstarch), uses minimal ingredients, and is so easy, anyone can make it!
This chicken dish is great served with air fried broccoli, cauliflower rice, keto rolls, buttery soft dinner rolls, green beans and potatoes, and more!
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Honey Mustard Sauce
This honey mustard sauce is sticky sweet and so delicious – you’re going to want to pour it over pork chops, asparagus, pork tenderloin, chicken wings, and so much more!
- 2 tbsps Whole Grain mustard
- 2 tbsps Yellow Mustard
- 1/4 cup honey
- 1 garlic clove , minced
- 1 tsp cornstarch
- ? tsp onion powder
Mix, and pour over meats, fish, chicken, or vegetables and bake until its golden brown and crunchy!
Instant Pot Chicken Drumsticks
To make this recipe in a fraction of the time – even from frozen – please use the sauce below and follow the method described in our Instant Pot BBQ Chicken Drumsticks recipe.
Air Fryer Chicken Drumsticks
This recipe can be baked, or air fried, so it’s easy to get delicious chicken drumsticks no matter how you’d like to prepare them!
To modify this recipe for your air fryer, please consult our air fried chicken drumsticks recipe or our Air Fryer Piri Piri Chicken recipe and use the Honey Mustard Sauce below in either method.
Crunchy Baked Chicken Drumsticks
The method below will help you to get extra crispy, crunchy drumsticks if you’d like to slightly modify from our recipe below.
Divide the mustard glaze in half – bake partway as listed below, and reserve the rest to baste drumsticks on a wire rack for extra crunch.
After 20 minutes of cooking as listed below, add chicken legs to oven on a cooling rack – over a baking sheet – about partway through cooking.
This helps to lift your chicken off the baking sheet, so air can move evenly around the chicken and crisp it instead of getting soggy in the butter that drips off.
Try to flip chicken drumsticks every 10 minutes to ensure it crisps evenly on all sides.
I prefer using tongs coated with heat resistant silicone coated tongs so they don’t stick to the chicken skin.
With a silicone brush, lightly brush chicken with mustard glaze, flipping its side each time you add another coat of glaze, about every 10 minutes until glaze is used up (which will take about 30 minutes.)
Other Chicken Recipes You’ll Love
We love delicious, easy chicken dishes here – we have a ton of delicious keto chicken dishes, and lots of other easy chicken favorites!
Our Air Fried Chicken Drumsticks has been a huge hit, along with our Creamy Keto White Chicken Chili Recipe, One Pot Garlic Butter Chicken Thighs and Mushrooms, Lemon Garlic Parmesan Baked Chicken Wings Recipe, and our Easy Baked Greek Chicken Thighs recipes!
You can find our complete chicken recipe archives here.
Honey Mustard Baked Chicken Drumsticks Recipe
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Honey Mustard Baked Chicken Drumsticks Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 lbs Drumsticks, about 8
- 2 tbsps Whole Grain mustard
- 2 tbsps Yellow Mustard
- ¼ cup honey
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 1 tsp cornstarch
- ? tsp onion powder
- Salt and pepper
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- Mix sauce ingredients together in a bowl.
- Taste, and adjust seasoning with salt and pepper as desired.
- Spray a baking dish with non-stick spray, and place drumsticks in the dish.
- Pour half the sauce over drumsticks.
- Bake for 30 minutes.
- Turn drumsticks over, pour other half of the sauce over top, Bake for another 20 minutes, turn, spoon sauce and juices over the top.
- Bake for 10 – 15 additional minutes until sauce reduces and the drumsticks cooked through, golden, and saucy.
- Remove from the oven, and serve.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
