Mexican Chicken Legs

Submitted by Boomette

"It can be any pieces of chicken. I tried it with boneless chicken breasts. You may adapt the cooking time. To make it low-sodium you may omit the salt and celery salt. Maybe celery seeds would be great."

 

• Ready In: 2hrs 5mins
• Ingredients: 11
• Serves: 4-6

ingredients

• 1 -2 lb boneless skinless chicken legs or 1 -2 lb boneless skinless chicken breast
• 1 cup ketchup
• 1 cup water
• 1⁄4 cup Worcestershire sauce
• 1 dash cayenne pepper
• 1 tablespoon brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon salt (optional)
• 1 teaspoon celery salt (optional) or 1 teaspoon celery seed
• 1 teaspoon chili powder
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• red chili pepper flakes (optional)

directions

1. Put chicken legs in a baking dish.
2. Mix all remaining ingredients. Pour the sauce over chicken legs.
3. Bake, uncovered, in a preheated oven of 325 F for about 2 hours. If you use boneless chicken breasts, it may be less than 2 hours. I don't remember. Baste a few times with the sauce.

Reviews

[ellie_]

Great chicken! Used bone-in chicken drumsticks and also skipped some of the ingredients for the sauce that I didn't have -- wonderful and top it off uses mostly pantry ingredients that are on hand, so no long grocery list! Thanks for sharing!

 

[MsSally]

This was great. Mild mexican flavor with lots of sauce. I used a little bit differnt technique. I made up spanish rice in my rice cooker. Then I put the chicken and sauce in a foil packet in the steamer basket of the rice cooker and in about 30 mins dinner was complete. Supper easy and tasty thanks for posting.

 

[teresas]

We really enjoyed these. The flavor is more like a barbecue sauce. Next time I'm going to increase the chili powder to give it more of a Mexican flavor. I used pheasant breast and they came out nice and juicy. This will be going in my pheasant cookbook. Thanks for posting.:)

 

[Kim 7994]

Followed exactly with the exception of the cayenne. Cook time was spot on--nice n juicy! As mentioned by a couple of other reviewers, doesn't taste "Mexican"......it's sweet like BBQ legs, but nonetheless yummy! Everybody enjoyed them.

 

[LifeIsGood]

This is a great way to prepare chicken legs. I love the barbeque-type sauce and the fact that I could throw this together quickly and forget about it for 2 hours while it cooked. The slow cooking method makes for very tender chicken. Yum! Made for Photo Tag