Chicken Maryland With A Baked Mustard Crust - cooking recipe

Ingredients

4 chicken legs-thighs (marylands complete bone in skin on)
3 cups fresh breadcrumbs (see note)
2 tablespoons butter
1 teaspoon sweet paprika
Mustard Crust Mix
1/2 cup Dijon mustard
1/2 garlic clove (large minced)
1 tablespoon thyme (fresh)
1/2 teaspoon black pepper (freshly ground)
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon (a pinch)

Preparation

Preheat oven to 160\u00b0C.
Season the centre of a 3 day old loaf (crumble the bread or give it a quick blitz in a food processor) with freshly cracked black pepper and lake salt.
Combine mustard mix ingredients in a bowl and mix thoroughly.
Roll chicken pieces in the mustard mix, then roll in the seasoned fresh breadcrumbs.
Place skin side up (in a shallow baking tray and dob the breadcrumbs with small dots of the butter and then sprinkle with sweet paprika.
Bake slowly for 1 to 1 1/4 hours (if doing turkey allow longer times and more of other ingredients to allow for size of turkey marylands compared to chicken).