Nigella's African Chicken Drumsticks with Freekeh and Roasted Vegetables

Yet another recipe from Nigella Kitchen, this one for African Chicken Drumsticks. The drumsticks are marinaded in tomato sauce, worcestershire sauce, onion, apricot jam, ground ginger and mustard powder. They are then baked.

I decided to serve them with green wheat freekeh and roasted vegetables. I found this recipe where they used maple pecans with beetroot and decided to give it a go, also using a similar mustard dressing. So I roasted beetroot and carrot throwing in some asparagus for the last 10 minutes. I toasted some pecans in butter and then added a little maple syrup and seasoning. I tossed all the vegetables together with the cooked freekeh and pecans, adding the mustard dressing.

The drumsticks were very tasty but it seemed more like a barbeque sauce then anything. My freekeh was really interesting, it is a similar texture to brown rice. I liked the flavour and the more you ate the more appealing it became. The beetroot, carrot, pecans and freekeh all went really well together with the mustard dressing. The asparagus was a little out of place (though it still tasted delicious!).