Roast Chicken Drumsticks & Potatoes
The hearty chicken option — drumsticks and potatoes roast on one steam-oven tray while the veg steam on the hob. About 50 minutes, mostly passive, for 5 adults.
One steam-oven tray + hob for the veg · ~50 min (mostly passive) · serves 5 adults The hearty chicken option — swap it in for the creamy noodles so chicken still lands once a week. No onion/garlic; lemon, leek and herbs carry it. Cooked unsalted so the kids and baby eat from it first; salt the adults’ share at the end.
Ingredients
- 10 chicken drumsticks (~1.3 kg), skin on
- 1.2 kg waxy or all-rounder potatoes, 3 cm chunks
- 1 leek, cut into 3 cm lengths
- 1 lemon (½ juiced, ½ in wedges)
- 3–4 tbsp olive oil
- 2 tsp dried thyme or rosemary
- 1 tsp sweet paprika (optional, for colour)
- salt + pepper (added at the very end)
- 2 heads broccoli + 4 carrots, to steam
Method — by station
Everything roasts on one tray in the steam oven; the plain veg steam on the hob alongside. No salt until the end, so the baby’s share comes off unseasoned.
🔥 In the steam oven — one tray (~40 min)
Steam oven — no preheat needed; set it going from cold.
- Toss the potatoes, leek, drumsticks, oil, lemon juice, herbs and paprika together on a solid steam-oven tray. Spread in one layer, drumsticks skin-up. No salt yet.
- Setting: Combigaren + Heißluft, 200 °C, 10 % humidity, fan on. Roast ~40 min, turning the drumsticks and shaking the potatoes once at ~25 min, until the skin is golden and the meat reaches 75 °C / juices run clear. For even crisper skin, go to 210–220 °C for the last 10 min.
🍳 On the hob — covered pan (~10 min, near the end)
- Medium heat. Steam the broccoli and carrots in a covered pan with a finger of water (or a steamer basket), ~8–10 min, until just tender. Drain.
🍱 To assemble
- Lift out the 1-year-old’s drumstick and potatoes first — strip the meat off the bone and check carefully for any small bones and cartilage, and shred — and leave it unsalted. Take the kids’ share out now too, still unsalted.
- Now salt and pepper the rest to taste. A container each: drumsticks + potatoes + steamed veg, lemon wedge on the side. Don’t forget your work portion. Cool, then fridge.
Notes
- Skin softens in the fridge — reheat in the steam oven (combi ~180 °C, lid off, 10–15 min) to bring some crispness back; pure-steam reheating keeps it moist but soft.
- For extra-crisp potatoes, give them a 10-min head start in the oven before adding the drumsticks.
- Keeps 3 days. This is the “firm/roast” potato dish — rotate it against the tortilla so potato doesn’t repeat within a week.
- Sizes vary — go by temperature, not the clock.