The recipe calls for using chicken wings, but I often substitute chicken drumsticks mostly becuse they are often very economical cuts of meat, and therefore I can afford organic, and as with most of Nigella's chicken recipe's you have to alter the times to suit your own oven..it does not really matter that you are using a 'chunkier' cut. These were served with a big salad, and some new potatoes...just enough for two, but I cannot stress how easy these are if cooking for a crowd. A top tip that I must pass on is to line your baking tray/dish with tin foil as the sticky mess the follows these delights is enough to make a girl weep into her marigolds! Nigella's recipe also calls for the meat to marinate for 36 hours, but in all honesty I have never been organised enough to achieve this! I have happily cooked these after 1-2 hours in the fridge, but obviously the longer the better.
Recipe
2 heads of garlic, cloves seperated but unpeeled
400mls oilve oil
Juice of 2 lemons
16 chicken wings
Method
Put the garlic gloves in cold water, bring to the boil and boil for 10 minutes. Then drain, push the cloves out of their skins into the processor and blitz. Then, with the motor running, pour the oil down the funnel till you have a milky-white gloop. Add the lemon juice and pour over the chicken wings, and leave covered in the fridge for 36 hours.
Take out of the fridge a good hour before cooking, and empty out into a roasting tin. Preheat the oven to 210oc/gas mark 7 then cook, basting occasionally, for 45 minutes (I also give an hour though) until the wings are very well done, crisp and burnished brown. Arrange on a serving plate and sprinkle generously with course sea salt.