Drumsticks And Pasta Recipes

Chicken and pasta never tasted so good! My garlic chicken pasta recipe has been a huge hit with my family! Tender, juicy pieces of chicken are cooked in a garlic, rosemary, thyme and wine broth. Make it a meal by adding some pasta and spinach! This one-pot chicken recipe is the ultimate comfort-food recipe and will save you from washing a mountain of dishes afterwards.

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This delicious garlic chicken pasta dish is super easy to make! First, season the chicken drumsticks generously with salt and pepper; chicken thigh will also work well for this recipe! Brown the chicken all over in a large pan until golden. Add into the same pan the garlic and shallots and cook for a few minutes. Next, add in the wine, broth and herbs and simmer away! If you have time, let the chicken slow-simmer for a more flavorful dish!

Baked Chicken Legs(drumsticks).

While the chicken is simmering, prepare the pasta. Most types of pasta will work great for this recipe! Add the pasta straight into the pan, along with the spinach. Cook just until the spinach is wilted, then enjoy! Don’t want to do pasta? This recipe will work great with mashed potatoes, too! Just remove the chicken from the pan when it’s done cooking and let the sauce reduce over medium heat for about 10 minutes, or until thickened. Use the sauce as a gravy over the chicken!

The original inspiration behind this recipe goes back more than a decade! One of the first cookbooks I picked up was by Ina Garten and I fell in love with her French garlic chicken recipe made with forty cloves of garlic. For the original recipe, brown the chicken all over and then add garlic, thyme and white wine to the pan. Bake it at 375F for about 45 minutes, or until the chicken is crispy. I love to use the remaining broth to create a chicken gravy. I still enjoy that recipe to this day! This pasta recipe combines those incredible flavors of roasted garlic and juicy chicken.

Calories: 344 kcal | Carbohydrates: 34 g | Protein: 20 g | Fat: 13 g | Saturated Fat: 3 g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2 g | Monounsaturated Fat: 6 g | Trans Fat: 1 g | Cholesterol: 70 mg | Sodium: 530 mg | Potassium: 527 mg | Fiber: 2 g | Sugar: 2 g | Vitamin A: 1934 IU | Vitamin C: 16 mg | Calcium: 65 mg | Iron: 2 mgDisclosure: This post may contain affiliate links, meaning that I may earn a commission if you click through and make a purchase.

Baked Bbq Chicken Drumsticks

How’s that for a mouthful? I couldn’t figure out what to call this recipe, so decided to err on the descriptive side today with this Slow Cooker Chicken Drumsticks Marinara Mozzarella Mushroom Mish-Mosh (with Penne Pasta!). The “marinara mozzarella mushroom mish-mosh” moniker fits, however, since this really is a toothsome mouthful of a recipe. And, it’s such an easy way to make a beautiful meal out of the humdrum chicken drumstick.

In this week’s Sunday Scratchups (your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery sales and affordable ingredients), I took a little bit of a shortcut with jarred marinara. I do prefer using ALDI SimplyNature Organic marinara as a still-affordable step up from basic jarred sauce — it also sports no added sugar, which is a win-win in my book — but, you can use your own favorite jarred marinara here. Drumsticks are always affordable, often going on sale around here at $.79/lb or less, and I’d also picked up a super-useful pack of

With all of these ingredients at hand, this filling and flavorful Crock-Pot chicken drumsticks recipe pretty much threw itself together with only slight assistance from me.

Honey Soy Chicken

Trim any excess skin off of your drumsticks and arrange them in the bottom of your slow cooker. (I used a 7 quart manual Crock-Pot here.) Add mushrooms, then dollop with minced garlic.

Pour marinara over chicken and mushrooms, then sprinkle with Italian seasoning, oregano, and crushed red pepper. Stir lightly to blend seasonings into sauce and ensure that it is entirely covering the chicken and mushrooms, then cover and cook on low for 4.5 hours.

Start a pot of water boiling for pasta at four hours into your slow cooking time, 30 minutes before the chicken marinara will be done. Cook the penne al dente in salted water according to package directions.

Korean Gochujang Chicken Drumsticks

Drain pasta, then stir the cooked penne and 1/3 cup shredded Parmesan straight into the chicken marinara mixture in the crock. Top with mozzarella and another 1/3 cup Parmesan, then replace the lid and cook on low for another 20 minutes.

Note: The marinara sauce will seem somewhat watery when you first open the Crock-Pot, but thickens up during the additional 20 minutes of cooking time with the shredded Parmesan.

ThisSlow Cooker Chicken Drumsticks Marinara Mozzarella Mushroom Mish-Mosh is such an easy family recipe, and a big step up from your basic pasta and sauce! Your Crock-Pot does all the work of slow cooking the drumsticks to perfect fall-apart tenderness, while cooking them in the marinara sauce helps keep them moist and savory. The mozzarella + Parmesan cheeses simply take everything up another notch, adding a salty tang and creaminess to balance out the acidity of the tomato sauce in a brilliant mish-mosh-mashup of flavor.

Chicken Drumstick Recipes

The marinara sauce will seem somewhat watery when you first open the Crock-Pot, but thickens up during the additional 20 minutes of cooking time with the shredded Parmesan.

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Boneless skinless chicken breast takes about 5-5.5 hours to cook in the Crock-Pot, so you should be fine (or give it only another 1/2 hour) -- they might be falling apart and more shreddable than the drumsticks though, so the final product won't be quite the same.

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I have not tried, as I wrote this specifically as a slow cooker recipe. You might try starting things browning on the stove top in a Dutch oven, then adding the marinara and moving it covered to the oven, but I can't make guarantees without having tried it myself. If you try it, let us know how it comes out.