Recipe: Perfect Ginger Garlic Asian Drumsticks

Ginger Garlic Asian Drumsticks. This instant pot Asian recipe for ginger garlic drumsticks is out of this world! Enjoy tender chicken in a sweet and sour sauce that's ready in no time. Instant Pot Ginger Garlic Drumsticks I am having so much fun cooking in my Instant Pot.

You can eat them with your hands or utensils if you may. Add all ingredients (drumsticks excluded) to a blender or a magic bullet and pulse a few times until garlic and ginger are a paste and the mixture emulsifies. Place the drumsticks in a large ziploc bag and pour the marinade over the chicken. You can cook Ginger Garlic Asian Drumsticks using 9 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Ginger Garlic Asian Drumsticks

1. You need 5-8 of chicken drumsticks.
2. You need 3 inch piece of fresh ginger.
3. You need 4-6 cloves of garlic.
4. It's 2 Tbsp of oil for sauce.
5. It's 2 Tbsp of oil for frying.
6. Prepare 3-5 Tbsp of soy sauce.
7. You need 1-2 tsp. of sweetner like honey.
8. Prepare to taste of black pepper.
9. You need to taste of hot sauce.

Ginger Garlic Asian Drumsticks Just an easy, tasty, cheap protein. You can adjust the heat and sweetness for adults or kids. If you love Asian style food and flavor as much as I do then make sure to check out these recipes next: Garlic Asian Green Beans: I served these as a side dish for this recipe and they paired perfectly! Slow Cooker Asian Chicken Lettuce Wraps: This one is a favorite of mine.

Ginger Garlic Asian Drumsticks step by step

1. Dry off your drumsticks.
2. Add a couple slits to each side of each drumstick.
3. Put oil in a skillet set to medium heat. Once hot, add drumsticks..
4. Allow to brown then turn over to brown the other side..
5. While the chicken is Browning clean your ginger.
6. Chop, grate, slice or dice your ginger and garlic.
7. Add the oil for the sauce (sesame is the boss if you have it) soy sauce, sweetner, hot sauce and mix. Add ginger and garlic and stir..
8. When your chicken is browned, grind some black pepper over the chicken..
9. Then pour the sauce over the chicken. Flip it over a few times. Turn heat down to medium low..
10. I like to cover the skillet to give the chicken time to finish without burning the sauce.
11. About every 3 minutes, flip the chicken so each side gets sauce..
12. Recover skillet, and keep this flip and cook until chicken is cooked through. About 9-12 minutes..

I'm sure you could have guessed since it is made in the slow cooker. This ginger garlic baked chicken recipe is Asian-flavored. I used soy sauce, oyster sauce, sesame oil, white pepper, and honey to marinate the chicken before baking them in the oven. I also added a little bit of Chinese five-spice powder to give it a sweet aroma of the spices. To make these easy drumsticks, you start by browning the chicken on the stove for a few minutes.