Course: Entree | Beer Style: Brown Ale

Baked Brown Ale Chicken with Herbs

This easy recipe for baked brown ale chicken from the Wishful Chef creates a tasty caramelized beer sauce, perfect to serve over rice or mashed potatoes.

Prep Time: 15 minutes | Yield: 4

Ingredients

5-6 chicken drumsticks

head of garlic, broken into cloves and peeled

4 oz. cubed pancetta or sliced bacon strips

2 carrots, cut into 1 inch pieces

4 bay leaves

1 Tbsp juniper berries (optional)

1 Tbsp Herbes de Provence

salt and pepper, to taste

12 oz. bottle brown ale

Directions

To make this brown ale chicken, preheat the oven to 400°F.
Season chicken drumsticks with salt and pepper and place in a baking dish. Add the garlic, pancetta, carrots and herbs. Pour brown ale in the dish.
Bake for 15 minutes, then turn the drumsticks over and bake another 15 minutes. Turn over again two more times keeping every turn 15 minutes.
After the fourth turn, the chicken should be cooked with a caramelized beer sauce. If the chicken is done but the sauce isn’t caramelized, just keep the chicken warm while you boil the sauce down to your liking.

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