I absolutely adore golden crisp baked chicken drumsticks with corn flakes and this recipe, which includes coconut and chili flakes, was featured in a magazine in Europe in spring 2014.
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The chicken drumsticks are perfectly cooked and the chili and coconut give it a slight Indian touch to the baked chicken drumsticks with corn flakes.
Best enjoyed with the sweet and sour Papaya dip or Thai Sweet Chili Sauce dip.
Some dishes that I made up in the last few years did take me a while to create, others on the hand were instant ideas that were well received.
I save you some trouble as well by coming up with the best that my small "kitchen" has to offer, keeping in mind as well to use fresh locally available ingredients and developing simple time-saving dishes, because we are all busy bees in this world, right?
The Baked chicken drumsticks with corn flakes coconut and chili flakes, however, came to life rather fast and thank god for it!
The husband was in a rather bored mood the day when I made them the first time.
The rains were in full swing and it was quite dull outside.
As you know, my husband isn't much of a food lover, it's more of a necessity for him, so food doesn't really lift up his spirits.
I presented him the baked chicken drumsticks with cornflakes and then I heard...
"Hey, you should make that more often and the sauce too, they are both killers!"
At that moment my heart quietly jumped up and the tiny smile appeared on my face while thinking "Got him!".
It's always a success if I can satisfy his taste preferences.
The Coconut gives the coating a lovely neat texture and it goes well with the crushed corn flakes and chili flakes.
In fact, if you like Indian food, you will love these golden baked chicken drumstick with cornflakes, coconut and chili flakes.
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📖 Recipe
Golden Baked Chicken Drumsticks Recipe
Ingredients
- 4 Chicken Drumsticks
- Pinch Salt
- Pinch Black Pepper Ground
- 1 Cup Cornflakes Crushed
- 1 Tablespoon Red Chili Pepper Flakes
- 2 Tablespoons Coconut Raw Freshly Shredded
- 1 Small Egg
- Dash Olive Oil
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 180 Celsius!
- In a mixing bowl (or soup plate) combine the crushed corn flakes, chili flakes and dried scraped coconut.
- Scramble the egg in another bowl with a fork.
- and then continue to drag it through the cornflakes, chili coconut mixture.
- The chicken drumstick should be well covered with the crumbs mixture. Do the same with the remaining chicken drumsticks and place them into a baking mold.
- Sprinkle the cornflakes drumsticks with a dash of Olive oil. Bake for 45 minutes or 1 hour, until crisp and cooked inside. Poke into the meat with a knife to check if it's done, if it's still pink then the chicken drusmticks need some more baking time.
- Best served with a salad, french fries, rice or as a little snack in between.
What a novel but delish idea. I also like the fact that it is baked. I might like to try it with sweet potato crisps.
Oh yes sweet potato crisps would go well with the baked chicken. Excellent idea Bintu. =)
BTW incredibly flavorful version here. I hope to remember to link to you when I work on my "fried chicken wings"
Ahahah Helene, I can see your smirk or smile as your fussy (or unfussy with food) husband gave you such a a high (coveted?!) praise. :0 Lovely story telling and the drumstix to go with it. I have been experienced with oven "fried" chicken wings mostly but alternated with breast and drumsticks. My guys loved it and I did too. Maybe I am not so dainty. 🙂
Thank you so much for all your compliments =D
The coating is so unique Helene! And having your husband's approval is gold. Isn't it great when others greedily eat what we make?
I agree, the approval makes one more confident and it makes me feel good. =)
Men Chicken Legs, eh?! Nice name, haha. They look lovely Helene - I can imagine how crispy they must be thanks to those wonderfully versatile things - cornflakes! Bet the flavour is kickass too. Something to try next time I think!
lol chicken legs or drumsticks.. who cares! As long as they taste yummy no? 😉
What a fantastic crust for chicken... I love coconut in savory dishes. 🙂
me too. You know for a very long time I didn't understand that coconut would go well in savory dishes too. It's mostly used in sweet desserts in europe.
Very tasty looking! My husband is a very plain eater, sometimes it’s very hard to find things he will eat! He would love this chicken! Lovely!
Oh so you feel my pain. 😉 Just joking... I hope your husband will enjoy the baked chicken as much as mine did.
cornflakes and coconut! what a genius texture combo for a crust. I love it
thank you so much =D
They look super crunchy! I should bake a batch for my husband too.
They are and that's the whole fun part when you attack your meal. =D
Helene, they look totally moreish! Bookmarke & pinned!
Janie x
My daughter loves chicken legs cooked this way. The coconut really brings freshness and sweetness to these tender juicy legs. Wonderful post Helene 🙂
So true, it's for sure a fresh chicken recipe. Thank you!
That looks pretty tasty with all that crunchiness wrapped around the chicken. Nice one , Helene!
Thank you Nik =)
Love the crust you've got here with the cornflakes and I'm sure the chili packed some punch fit for the boys!!You've given me a great appetizer idea for my next party Helene 🙂
You can always reduce the chili flakes in the recipe but I am sure that this one might not be that spicy for you. 😉
I love cornflakes breaded chicken or fish and do it all the time. Cannot wait to try your recipe with coconut added to it.
Feel free to let us know here afterwards how you liked it with coconut Balvinder.
Cornflakes are so super versatile, this looks too delicious 😀
My brother and daddy would love it 😀
Cheers
CCU
lol Uru. I agree with what you are saying, cornflakes come super handy.
No finger nails for me, so bring on the messy food! Actually I love messy dishes - they usually taste so good. And this one does look amazing. Good stuff - thanks.
haha yeah... messy food can only be tasty. You follow a great food philosophy =)
these look great and it must be hard as a foodie having a hubby who isn;t into food, mine is pretty good, but Indian is his fav, he is also Indian
Yeah not always easy, but when he likes something then it is a very good sign. 😉 at least he isn't limited to just Indian food. His favorite is of course Indian too. =)
Looks awesome, feels like the spicy chicken that we get i n 'Chick King'.. Very restaurant like !
Thanks Chitz! Oh I don't think that I have heard of Chick King before.
These look nice and hey, looks every bit fancy to me. The great thing is I have a house full of food lovers, my teen could cook up something really nice if he wants to, so man food at my place could even be a baked casserole:)..
I hear it's raining a lot there...especially during festival season, it must be hard for roadside shops..
Thank you Ash, you are the best. =)
Yes it has been raining really too much and it has started again a few days back when we were waiting fro the retrieving rains to arrive. Looks like more rain will come...
What a wonderful idea - especially as I was trying to be healthy and got the kids Cornflakes and they much prefer chocolate cereals... and so I must recycle it with this. Can't say much for Man food in our house, as us girls outnumber one man, who's just happy to have someone cook for him! Look forward to seeing the sauce.
Well the other day I had a similar problem, I bought the wrong cornflakes for my man... Again I thought, "Luckily I have a recipe to reuse them well" ^.^
I think I'd like these in spite of my fancy dancy fingernails. 🙂
Yeah I think so too. =P