Coffee-Brined Chicken Drumsticks

Ingredients

• 8  skin-on chicken drumsticks ()
• 2 tablespoons chili powder 
• 1  cinnamon sticks 
• 1.5 cups strongly coffee brewed
• 0.5 teaspoon pepper red crushed
• 3 cloves garlic crushed
• 0.3 cup salt 
• 3 tablespoons sugar 

Equipment

• bowl
• frying pan
• oven
• broiler
• broiler pan

Directions

1. In a large bowl, stir together 2 cups water, coffee, salt and sugar until salt and sugar are completely dissolved. Stir in chili powder, red pepper, garlic and cinnamon.
2. Add chicken. Top with a small plate, if needed, to keep chicken submerged. Cover and refrigerate for 2 to 4 hours.
3. Preheat broiler. Lift chicken from brine and place on a broiler pan. (Discard brine.) Broil 4 to 6 inches from heat source until browned, about 10 minutes. Turn chicken pieces and broil until second side is browned, 10 minutes more.
4. Set oven to 350F. Move pan to a rack in middle of oven and bake until drumsticks are no longer pink at bone (cut to test), 10 to 15 minutes longer.
5. Serve hot.