Steps to Prepare Super Quick Homemade Roast Chicken Leg

Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, roast chicken leg. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Pierce the thermometer to the thickest part of the meat, down to the bone. After you're done with this recipe you may want to check my Slow Roasted Whole Chicken Legs witch is also super delicious but requires more baking time. Pat the chicken dry with a paper towel, then smear butter over the surface of the skin. Sprinkle the lemon pepper seasoning liberally over both sides of the chicken pieces.

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To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have roast chicken leg using 12 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Roast Chicken Leg:

1. Take 2 chicken leg quarters
2. Take 2 carrots
3. Take 1 potato
4. Take Handful asparagus
5. Get 1 onion
6. Make ready 1 green pepper
7. Prepare 3 tbsp butter
8. Make ready Salt
9. Take Black pepper
10. Take Chilli flakes
11. Prepare Rosemary
12. Get leaves Bay

Season with smoked paprika, garlic powder, salt and pepper. Place the onions, carrots, and fennel in a roasting pan. Spread around the bottom of the roasting pan and place the chicken on top. Place your seasoned chicken leg quarters on top and cover with aluminum foil.

Steps to make Roast Chicken Leg:

1. Preheat oven to 400°
2. Cut all vegetables to bite size
3. Put vegetables in a glass tray
4. Season vegetables with salt, pepper and rosemary
5. Salt and pepper well on both sides of the chicken leg
6. Cut butter into cubes
7. Place butter cubes evenly over the vegetables
8. Place 3 to 4 bay leaves on top of vegetable
9. Place chicken legs on top of bay leaves, skin side up
10. Sprinkle chilli flakes on the skin of the chicken leg
11. Cover with tin foil and place in oven
12. Cook for 40 minutes covered
13. For the last 5 minutes, take the tray out and take tin foil off. Set oven to medium broil to crisp the skin of the legs

Spread around the bottom of the roasting pan and place the chicken on top. Place your seasoned chicken leg quarters on top and cover with aluminum foil. Baking chicken legs in the oven is so super easy. They're first seasoned with spices and then all you do is pop them in the oven! It's one of my favorite main dishes to make because they pretty much go with all the side dishes - macaroni and cheese, mashed potatoes, and roasted vegetables are just a few favorites!

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