Name: Honey Mustard Baked Chicken Drumsticks Recipe
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 8
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2 lbs Drumsticks (about 8); 2 tbsps whole grain mustard; 2 tbsps yellow mustard; ¼ cup honey; 1 garlic clove (minced); 1 tsp cornstarch; ⅓ tsp onion powder; 1 tsp sea salt; ¼ tsp black pepper (ground)

chicken drumsticks with yellow sauce on them

If you love rich dijon and stone ground mustard, and a slightly-sweet sticky honey glaze, you’re going to LOVE this delicious, easy chicken drumstick recipe!

This recipe is baked to crispy-crunchy perfection, and is keto and low carb diet approved (simply swap or omit the cornstarch), uses minimal ingredients, and is so easy, anyone can make it!

This chicken dish is great served with air fried broccoli, cauliflower rice, keto rolls, buttery soft dinner rolls,green beans and potatoes, and more!

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Honey Mustard Sauce

This honey mustard sauce is sticky sweet and so delicious – you’re going to want to pour it over pork chops, asparagus, pork tenderloin, chicken wings, and so much more!

2 tbsps Whole Grain mustard
2 tbsps Yellow Mustard
1/4 cup honey
1 garlic clove , minced
1 tsp cornstarch
? tsp onion powder

Mix, and pour over meats, fish, chicken, or vegetables and bake until its golden brown and crunchy!

Instant Pot Chicken Drumsticks

To make this recipe in a fraction of the time – even from frozen – please use the sauce below and follow the method described in our Instant Pot BBQ Chicken Drumsticks recipe.

Air Fryer Chicken Drumsticks

This recipe can be baked, or air fried, so it’s easy to get delicious chicken drumsticks no matter how you’d like to prepare them!

To modify this recipe for your air fryer, please consult our air fried chicken drumsticks recipe or our Air Fryer Piri Piri Chicken recipe and use the Honey Mustard Sauce below in either method.

Honey Mustard Baked Chicken Drumsticks Recipe displayed on a table.

A bowl of chicken drumsticks served with a spoon.

Honey mustard sauce poured over chicken breasts in a baking dish.

Honey mustard chicken drumsticks in a blue baking dish.

Crunchy Baked Chicken Drumsticks

The method below will help you to get extra crispy, crunchy drumsticks if you’d like to slightly modify from our recipe below.

Divide the mustard glaze in half – bake partway as listed below, and reserve the rest to baste drumsticks on a wire rack for extra crunch.

After 20 minutes of cooking as listed below, add chicken legs to oven on a cooling rack – over a baking sheet – about partway through cooking.

This helps to lift your chicken off the baking sheet, so air can move evenly around the chicken and crisp it instead of getting soggy in the butter that drips off.

Try to flip chicken drumsticks every 10 minutes to ensure it crisps evenly on all sides.

I prefer using tongs coated with heat resistant silicone coated tongs so they don’t stick to the chicken skin.

With a silicone brush, lightly brush chicken with mustard glaze, flipping its side each time you add another coat of glaze, about every 10 minutes until glaze is used up (which will take about 30 minutes.)