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Roast Chicken Leg Melt the butter in a saucepan. Add the lemon juice, salt, black pepper, cayenne and garlic, and stir. These Lemon Garlic Roasted Chicken Legs are loaded with flavor, perfect for a super quick dinner. You can cook Roast Chicken Leg using 12 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Roast Chicken Leg

  1. Prepare 2 of chicken leg quarters.
  2. You need 2 of carrots.
  3. You need 1 of potato.
  4. It's Handful of asparagus.
  5. Prepare 1 of onion.
  6. Prepare 1 of green pepper.
  7. It's 3 tbsp of butter.
  8. It's of Salt.
  9. Prepare of Black pepper.
  10. Prepare of Chilli flakes.
  11. Prepare of Rosemary.
  12. You need leaves of Bay.

No bowls to wash, super fast prep all in one pan!. What I love about this recipe is its simplicity. You do it all in a ziploc bag, no bowls to wash and cooked in just one pan, which in my book is huge. I love to serve roasted chicken leg quarters with roast potato wedges, smashed potatoes, either Jollof rice or a similar rice dish, potato salad, couscous, pan fried sweet potatoes and so on.

Roast Chicken Leg step by step

  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.

When it comes to vegetable side dishes, any kind of salad would be great. BAKED CHICKEN DRUMSTICKS are the easiest way to get dinner on the table quickly! The skin crisps up in the oven, the seasoning is simple and perfect, and the chicken legs come out juicy every time! When I roast a chicken it's a sure thing that my kids are going to fight over the chicken legs. This recipe is for fall-off-the-bone soft chicken leg quarters.