Spicy Lemon-Rosemary Baked Chicken Legs
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Difficulty:
easy
Difficulty
Preparation:
50 min.
Preparation
ready in 2 h. 20 min.
Ready in
Ingredients
for
4
- Ingredients
- 1 ⅕ kilograms Chicken legs
- 2 lemons (juiced)
- 2 fresh chili peppers
- 6 sprigs rosemary
- 100 milliliters olive oil
- salt
- freshly ground peppers
Preparation steps
1.
Wash the chiles, cut in half lengthwise and remove the seeds. Slice very thinly. Rinse the rosemary, pat dry, and chop 4 of the finely.
2.
Whisk together the lemon juice, chopped chillies, chopped rosemary and olive oil in a bowl until well combined. Season with salt and pepper. Pour the mixture over the chicken drumsticks and refrigerate for at least 1 1/2 hours, turning the chicken once.
3.
Preheat the oven to 200 °C (approximately 400°F).
4.
Bake the chicken, in the marinade, for 45 minutes, until crispy, basting every now and then with the marinade. Garnish with remaining rosemary sprigs and serve hot.
