Outstanding garlic chicken dinner to satisfy a table-full of hungry family. Juicy, tender chicken drumsticks braised and infused with garlic and thyme. It can be easily cooked with potatoes and vegetables for a one-pot complete meal.
Hey guys, I have a new toy!! You know how much I love new kitchen toys and I have a new one to play with now. Oh, but I’m not the only one who gets a new toy. I will also give a set to TWO of my readers because sharing is caring and I love and care for all of you. If it was up to me, I’d go all Oprah on you and give all of you a gift but I can only do two. So stick around, look around, maybe drool a little, and then, make sure to enter the giveaway below.
So what we are playing with today? We are playing with a new pan from Copper Chef™. It’s a versatile copper cooking pan that has stainless steel induction plate for even cooking and Cerami-Tech Non-Stick coating. It’s perfect for cooking a wide variety of dishes and using a wide variety of cooking techniques, like stove-top, frying, steaming, and baking. It’s oven proof and because of its sleek, clean look, it can nicely go from stove to table.
But why would I bore you will all the technical details that you can easily read on their website? So, I won’t. I will just tell you why I like this pan and let you get to the good stuff…the reason why you are here…the recipe and giveaway.
I may have mentioned it before (or beaten you over the head with it), but I’m quite picky about my cooking pans. I try many, but I’m quite critical when it comes to the ones I actually stick with on regular bases. (That’s why I got my mom new cookware, so that I can use it when I cook there.) What I look for first, is it must have a pan that has an even distribution of heat for even cooking. I want to make sure it’s durable and lasting. This Copper Chef pan get a nice big “check” on all that!
I also love cookware that is compatible with stove-top and oven. I love a pan that I can easily pop in the oven after giving my meats a nice sear on the stove-top. That is why I love my old cast iron pans and that’s why this pan is now my new friend too. But there is something that puts Copper Chef pans over the top and that is being able to also do frying and steaming all in the same pan. Versatility is truly my favorite part of this pan.
Braised Garlic Chicken Drumsticks
Ingredients
- 1.5 to 2 lbs chicken drumsticks
- 2 Tbsp vegetable oil
- 1 lb mini tri-color potatoes you can substitute other potatoes if you wish
- 3 medium carrots
- 2 garlic bulbs
- 1 cup chicken stock
- Juice from 1/2 lemon
- 2 tsp dry thyme
- Salt
- Fresh cracked black pepper
Instructions
- (Make sure to use the Copper Chef pan. A dutch oven or another cookware that can go from stove-top to oven can be used.)
- Peel and chop carrots into large chunks. Set aside.
- Wash potatoes and set aside.
- Peel all garlic cloves and set aside
- Place chicken drumsticks onto a large mixing bowl, add oil, salt, and pepper. Mix until the meat is evenly coated.
- Preheat the oven to 350.
- Heat up the pan over medium-high heat and add chicken drumsticks, laying them evenly in one layer. Let them sear for about 5 minutes and then flip them to the other side. Let them sear on the other side for about 5 minutes. Take drumsticks out of the pan.
- Add potatoes, carrots and garlic to the hot pan. Stir and let them sear for about 5 minutes. Stir and let them cook for a couple more minutes. Take out the veggies.
- Pour in chicken stock, lemon juice and add thyme. Stir well and bring to simmer.
- Place chicken drumsticks back into the pan and add veggies on top, evenly distributing them.
- Cover with the lid (make sure it's an oven-safe lid) and place the pan in the oven. Cook for 30-35 minute and take off the lid. Cook for another 10 minutes.
- You can turn on the broiler to brown the top a little if you wish.
- Take out and serve.
Recipe Notes
Recipe from Lyuba @ willcookforsmiles.com All images and content are copyright protected. Please do not use my images without prior permission. If you want to share this recipe, please simply link back to this post for the recipe. Thank you.
Alright, enough gabbing, now for the giveaway! Two of my readers will receive a 5-piece All Around Square Pan set from Copper Chef. The set includes a 9 1/2 inch square pan, a fry basket, a steam/roast rack, a glass lid, and a recipe book. Here is how to enter:
1. Pin this Braised Garlic Chicken Drumsticks recipe to inspire all your friends. (Make sure to leave me a comment confirming that you did.)
2. Leave me a comment and tell me what you plan to make first if you win this new toy!
This way, everyone gets two entries into this giveaway. The winners will be chosen randomly (using random.org) on July 20th, 2016. All entrants much be 18-years old or over. This giveaway is available to US and Canada residents.
GIVEAWAY CLOSED! Winners have been contacted.
Here are the winning numbers:
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**Disclosure: I was not compensated for this post. I did receive a free cookware set for review purposes from Copper Chef™.
Rhonda Orcutt
I pinned your Braised Garlic Chicken Drumstick recipe on my Pinterest. Besides this recipe, I think I’d like to make your “Loaded Baked Potato Breakfast Skillet” recipe first in the Copper Chef pan, should I win it. 🙂
P.S. I just made your Strawberry Salsa recipe that was in the American Profile “magazine” & we LOVED it! It’s so different. Will be making that again! That’s what lead me to your website today. Thank you
lyuba
Awe, I’m so happy to hear that! Thank you so much, Rhonda 😀
I hope you like everything you try!
Diana Stephens
I just pinned your Braised Garlic Chicken Drumsticks to my Chicken Pinterest board. I think your Chicken Parmesan Dip would be yummy made in the Copper Chef Pan!!!
lyuba
Thank you, Diana! Oh, I agree 🙂
Best of luck!
Marisa Franca @ All Our Way
Well, it’s a given that I pin your recipes and I share them. Yep, they are that good that I want to share. Now, other than buying my Le Creuset small skillet at a consignment shop — I have no other decent pans. This pay would certainly be a welcome addition 🙂 I’ve been wanting to redo my chicken with lemon and garlic and the pan would certainly be photogenic. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to win. Have a great weekend.
lyuba
Awe, you’re always so sweet, Marisa!
Best of luck! 🙂
Lisa W
I pinned this recipe to pinterest and can’t wait to make it. I have wanted a Copper Chef pan since I first saw them. I would like to make Bananas foster in the Copper Chef pan as my first recipe.
lyuba
Sounds like it would be SO good! Thank you, Lisa. Best of luck to you.
Susan Martin
When your email popped up in my box this morning, the picture got my attention. Clicked on it to read and how nice to find out it’s also a giveaway! I pinned to my food main dishes board. I don’t have a stove to oven pan and if I make a recipe that calls for that I have to transfer to another dish except for our old cast iron pan I can barely lift :). Think I’ll also pin the Copper Chef Pan to my I Want This board!
lyuba
Awe, thank you, Susan!
Good luck to you!
lyuba
Hi Susan! You are a winner! Congratulations 🙂 I will send you an email.
Susan P
I pinned this recipe to my Pinterest. This looks delicious
lyuba
Thank you!!
Susan P
If I won this beautiful piece I would make this recipe!
lyuba
You’re so sweet 🙂
Good luck!
Mary Akis
I would love to make strogonoff in this bad boy/girl….it’s one of most favourite dishes to make stove top. I don’t have a “board” or website in which to pin this delicious recipe to, so I will have to rely on sharing with my friends…
Thank ou
lyuba
Haha, I hope you’ll get that chance.
It’s alright if you don’t have Pinterest. Any kind of a share that you can do, like a facebook, would be good.
Best of luck!
Jen
I pinned your recipe and I’d like to try making it. I would love to make chicken and dumplings and also maybe some stew in this pan. I like recipes that take a while to cook and with good cookware it’s more fun.
lyuba
I couldn’t agree with you more! Thank you, Jen. Good luck to you!
Jen
And I would love to make your BBQ Ranch Chicken Loaded Fries but with homemade fries which would be easy with the fryer basket.
https://www.willcookforsmiles.com/2016/06/bbq-ranch-chicken-loaded-fries.html
Bea Kuchta
You and your recipes are awesome. I have made a cookbook with sections of various categories of your recipes. If the photos don’t reel me in then the ingredients in the recipes do. I love your website and when I get an email, I usually have to print it and the “read more” below it offers even more. If all websites were run as well as yours, we wouldn’t need printed cookbooks at all. I would love to win the Copper cookware not only to cook your chicken with garlic and potatoes, carrots and garlic in, but also to show off a bit at the table when I put it on display.
Thank you for this opportunity. Keep on sending those recipes; our family just loves them.
lyuba
You are so sweet, you are making me cry! Thank you so much, Bea!
Best of luck to you 🙂
lyuba
Hi Bea, you are a winner! Congratulations! I will send you an email 🙂
Carolsue
I pinned
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/138204282294201382/
And I would make chicken cacciatore first if I win
manda
I pinned on pinterest. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/331014641343988248/
manda
And I would cook a casserole.
Sharpen
Thanks for your pined I like this post and your comment
Midge
This looks absolutely amazing. I don’t have a dutch oven, but I’ve got a large crock pot. Do you think this would translate to a crock pot?
lyuba
Hi Midge! I believe you can make this recipe crock pot style. You would sear meat and veggies the same way as described, but after searing it, place everything in the crock pot and cook it in the crock pot instead of the oven.
I hope this helps!
Thank you 🙂
Allie
I so wabr to make this tonight. Could I use bone-in chicken breasts? Trying to use up what I have in the freezer.
James A Dauer
This recipe looks really cool. But i wonder uf yoj cook it with the skin on?
lyuba
Absolutely, James! Searing the skin will give great flavor! (If you absolutely can’t get passed that skin, that’s just find to take it off.)