Good ol’ chicken! Who doesn’t love it? (And even more so on keto where you can enjoy that crispy, heavenly skin completely guilt-free!) Here, I took the humble drumstick up a notch and cooked them with toasted sesame oil and sesame seeds – before drizzling a little more sesame oil over and garnishing with fresh chili and coriander (< that’s ‘cilantro’ for my US readers). Toasted sesame oil delivers MASSIVE flavour and I love it! I buy mine from the Trose, but not all of them stock it, so you can find the exact one I use online here.
(NOTE: I used 8 large drumsticks in this recipe and assumed each person’s portion would be two drumsticks each. This is how the macros were calculated.)
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Carbs 0.5g (0.2%); Fat 18g (54.7%); Protein 33g (45.2%)
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Prep Time | 25 minutes |
Cook Time | 30 minutes |
Servings |
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- 8 large chicken drumsticks
- salt
- 2 TB toasted sesame oil
- 1 TB sesame seeds
- 1 red chili finely sliced
- chopped coriander finely chopped
- 1 TB toasted sesame oil additional, to drizzle
Ingredients
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- Preheat the oven to 200°C / 390°F.
- Spread the chicken drumsticks on a lined, greased baking tray and season with salt. Use a pastry brush to brush over (the first reference to) sesame oil.
- Generously scatter over the sesame seeds, rolling the drumsticks in them until coated all over.
- Place in the preheated oven for 25-30 minutes until the chicken has sufficiently cooked through.
- To serve, drizzle over the (second reference to) sesame oil and scatter over the sliced red chili and chopped coriander. Season further with salt, if needed.
- The full macro-breakdown (and allergens) can be found further down this page (keep scrolling), as well as the link to PIN THE RECIPE (for those on Pinterest). There is also a comment facility, so do let me know how you get on...
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0.2% Carbs
45.2% Protein
54.7% Fat
Nutritional Information per serving (2 large drumsticks)
Calories 289Kcal / 1210kJ
Fat 18g
of which saturates 3.4g
Carbohydrates 0.5g (for my US readers, these are what you refer to as net carbs. See below*)
of which sugars 0.5g
Fibre 0.5g
Protein 33g
*Note for US readers: The recipes on this site show the carbohydrates which should be counted on keto (in this case: it's 0.5g). Here in the UK, our nutritional breakdown information displays a carbohydrate count that has already had the dietary fibre subtracted (and displayed separately) - and it’s indicated this way throughout the site. In short, you need not subtract anything further.
Allergens
Sesame
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Disclaimer: The nutritional analysis, macro and allergen breakdown of the recipes on this site are meticulously calculated using the cloud-based software NUTRITICS®. NUTRITICS® is fully approved by the relevant Trading Standards organizations and is EU and FDA-compliant. The author, Monya Kilian Palmer is trained in using this superior software in order to provide you accurate data. The author is not a medical professional and this website has been designed only to provide you with recipes to suit the keto lifestyle you have chosen and discussed with your GP. The macros calculations are provided as a courtesy to you based on Monya’s weighing of ingredients when creating the dishes. If Erythritol (a sugar polyol) has been used in any of the recipes, it has already been manually excluded from the final carbohydrate count for you.