Cooking With The Kids #3 - Chicken Drumsticks with BBQ Sauce

It's been a busy few weeks, what with the school holidays and everything. For some reason I had convinced myself there would be loads of time to do cooking with the kids 2-3 times a week. I was kidding myself! With trips away, day trips, and me working almost every day in between to pay for it all there's been hardly any time to cook WITH them (more a case of quickly whip something together before they start eating the furniture!)

BUT! I've managed to do SOME! Tom chose Chicken Drumsticks! Which luckily is a nice a quick meal without too much fuss. Perfect for a hungry 3 year old (and his brothers)

Chicken Drumsticks with BBQ Sauce

Serves: 4 | Prep Time: 10 mins | Cooking Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

8 Chicken Drumsticks

Oil

Salt & Pepper

1 tsbp Paprika

4 tbsp Lemon Juice

Sauce:

4 tbsp White Wine Vinegar

4 tbsp Soy Sauce

5 tbsp Ketchup

2 tbsp Soft Brown Sugar

1 tsp English Mustard Powder

1 tsp Paprika

1 pinch Crushed Chillis

Salt & Pepper

Method

Pre heat the oven to GM 7 / 200c / 400f

Add oil to a roasting tin and heat in the oven

Once hot, add the chicken (be careful of spitting)

Sprinkle over salt & pepper, paprika and lemon juice

Put in oven for 30mins or till juices run clean

Meantime, mix all the sauce ingredients together, mixing well.

It is a good idea to taste the sauce as you go and

alter it according to personal taste, hotter, sweeter etc.

Serve the hot chicken with the sauce on the side.

We also made potato wedges, and Tom heated up a tin of

peas and carrots to serve with it.

The kids LOVED it, and their only complaint was that we didn't make enough!

Recipe: Pigsty Pie

This is one that we made up, although we are far from the first or only people to make a pie using pork or pork mince and call it a Pigsty Pie. So let's just say that this is our version of it. It smells great and reminds me of stuffing at Christmas, making it feel much more "naughty" than it is! This serves four people and it a nice 9 points per serving. You will need these for the mash: 400g potatoes 400g sweet potatoes 4-5 good sized carrots Salt Pepper Nutmeg Simply chop the roots, boil in salted water until tender, and mash! Add salt, pepper and nutmeg to taste. The pie filling: 10 sprays low fat cooking spray (e.g. 1 cal) 1/2 lb lean pork mince 2 onions, finely chopped 3 apples, diced 1 leek, chopped 5-6 big mushrooms 2 tbs plain flour 1 tsp sage 1 tsp parsley Salt Pepper 1 vegetable stock cube 1/2 hot water 2 tsp English mustard Fry the onions in the cooking spray until they start to soften, add the mince. Once the meat starts to colour add the apple, leek and mush

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