Head's up: Andrew Zimmern's One-Pot Sticky wings works with chicken legs (thanks, Traca!)

marilynfl

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When I saw that wings were $3.99/lb while organic chicken legs were $2.39/lb, the decision was clear.

Adding a drizzle of olive oil, I cooked each side for 10 minutes, then followed the rest of the recipe of cooking the sauce until sticky and mostly evaporated. NOTE: This is TOO LONG. While the chicken was still moist, the meat was completely pulled away from the bone and temperature was going over 175 when I pulled it out--before it had reached sticky stage. I think you can get away with 6 minutes on each side and leave more time for the sticky step.

I ended up pulling out the legs and reducing the sauce separately to avoid totally overcooking the chicken.

Be sure to add the lime (or lemon) juice squeeze when serving. I initially forgot about that--and it helps give a burst of happiness with all that stickiness.

We were two little gluttons and polished off 11 legs between our lunch and dinner meals.

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