Chicken Leg Quarters Roasted Recipe
An easy recipe for a budget friendly baked chicken dinner.
Chicken leg quarters roasted recipe. Thank you for all of the great reviews. They re juicy flavorful and tender but let us not forget the best part that beautiful golden crispy skin. This recipe cooks leg quarters with a method and seasoning that tastes just like roasted chicken. Trim any overhanging skin from the chicken pieces.
Whisk brown sugar sea salt 1 1 2 teaspoons garlic powder 1 1 2 teaspoons onion powder 1 1 2 teaspoons paprika oregano dry mustard celery seed and cayenne pepper together in a bowl. Made this tonight and it was a hit. This recipe for baked chicken leg quarters is a must try and your chicken is guaranteed to be perfectly cooked and exploding with flavor the moment it comes out of the oven. I saw that cook time on another chicken leg quarter recipe with the increase in temp at the end to help crisp up the chicken.
One is that chicken legs and thighs just taste much better when cooked to about 185f 190f. The skin got so crispy and the chicken was moist and retained the flavors. This recipe could also be used with a quartered whole chicken or use 4 split chicken breasts. Tender juicy roasted chicken leg quarters are not only easy to prepare and delicious but they re also easy on the budget.
You loved it at the restaurant now make it at home. Chicken leg quarters are the perfect change of pace to your dinnertime lineup. These are the best oven baked chicken leg quarters tender crispy and juicy on the inside you simply brush with butter and simple seasonings before cooking them in the oven at a low temperature for an hour with a final spike in the temp to crisp the skin up real nice at the end. The second reason is that the skin won t be as crispy after just 25 minutes.
Chicken quarters will be fully cooked and reach 165f internal temperature at 400f in about 25 minutes but you want to cook them longer for two reasons. This recipe is for fall off the bone soft chicken leg quarters they re slowly roasted while covered for approximately 1 hour 30 40 minutes if they are small 1 hour 30 minutes will be sufficient if big add 10 minutes on a low temperature 300f and then they re finished off uncovered on a high temperature 425f for 10 15 minutes to get crispy skin watch them because you want to have. Coated in an herb and garlic italian style seasoning the skin is light and crispy yet the meat is juicy and will fall off the bone delicious. This is one that i adapted from recipe 199636 after i scored 4 huge chicken leg quarters on sale.
Try it out again. Returned the chicken to a 400f oven for 15 more minutes. I hope you enjoy. Make the best one pan roasted chicken leg quarters with potatoes carrots onion and garlic.
It also fell off the bone. That s when they become super tender.