The 41 Best Chicken Leg Quarter Recipes

Inexpensive chicken quarters are brined and baked with your favorite barbeque sauce. The result is a simple to make, delicious tender chicken that everyone loves! 

Roasted Chicken Quarters with maple syrup and roasted vegetables baked in the same pan is easy yet packed full with flavor. Use chicken legs, thighs, or quarters for a hearty and comforting chicken for two that taste great!

Jerk Chicken embodies the aromatic, enticing, and utterly delightful grilled chicken dish synonymous with the spirit of Jamaica and the Caribbean isles. Effortlessly crafted, this chicken marinated in Jerk seasoning encompasses the quintessential elements of authentic Jamaican Jerk cuisine—featuring scallions, ground allspice berries, and fiery hot chiles—resulting in a symphony of flavors that's both captivating and mouthwatering.

These Smoked Chicken Quarters are tender and juicy, smoked to perfection with a simple homemade dry rub. An optional wet brine is included in this recipe!

Make these savory BBQ Grilled Chicken Leg Quarters with Apricot Barbecue Sauce for your next cookout! Juicy deliciously seasoned chicken with a savory dry rub and a sticky sweet sauce.

This Georgian chicken dish is easy to make and incredible flavorful - it also comes together in about an hour, meaning that it's quick enough for a weeknight meal! This recipe requires some unique spices that are well worth finding! 

This Indian inspired Coriander Chicken with Cilantro Rice uses inexpensive chicken leg quarters along with flavorful spices to make a quick and easy meal.

My chicken leg quarters recipe is one of the tastiest chicken recipes you'll ever make. It's also one of the easiest! Juicy, tender, and flavorful dark meat with that crispy skin we all love. My chicken quarter recipe is the perfect choice for an easy weeknight dinner your whole family will enjoy!

Don’t want to deal with the hassle of making a bunch of wings, but can’t decide between thighs or drumsticks for dark meat? Get the best of both worlds with air fryer chicken leg quarters! Thanks to the air fryer, each piece comes out with irresistibly crispy skin while the meat stays tender and juicy.

This hearty Chicken, Corn, and Vegetable Soup is perfect for cold winter days and is easily made in an Instant Pot, with alternate stove top instructions. I make this soup in my 6 qt Instant Pot but you can easily adapt the recipe to make on a 6 qt pot on the stove.

For a simple yet crave-worthy dinner, put these very best smoked chicken leg quarters on the menu and watch everyone fall in love with every delicious, succulent bite! Coated in a flavorful, aromatic dry rub, these tender, juicy chicken quarters are infused with the perfect kiss of smoky flavor and then are finished under a blast of high heat to ensure you get that perfect crispy skin.

This is how to cook chicken leg quarters Instant Pot style! Just pressure cook in your Crockpot Express or Ninja Foodi too this way, then great crispy chicken skin at the end and enjoy.

This is a super easy air fryer chicken quarters recipe for beginners and expert users alike. If you are wondering how to cook frozen chicken quarters in the air fryer, this fool proof recipe is right up your alley and all you need to make a quick, and flavorful side dish for dinner.

Grilled Tandoori Chicken – Grilled tandoori chicken is tender and juicy on the inside while maintaining a nice sear on the outside, and it has all the eye-catching colors you expect from restaurant-style Tandoori Chicken. Coated in a homemade tandoori chicken marinade with Indian spices, bone-in chicken cooks on the grill to smoky perfection

Al faham chicken, or charcoal chicken, perfectly blends smoky grilled chicken with aromatic Middle Eastern spices.

This Peruvian Chicken, Pollo a la Brasa, is a beautifully marinated chicken that is either grilled or roasted. Serve it with Aji Verde, a Peruvian green sauce, for ultimate flavors!

Peri Peri Chicken – the bird that dared to be bold! Born from a love affair between Portuguese adventurers and African chilies, Peri Peri Chicken (also known as “Pepper-Pepper” Chicken) has become the life of the global food party with its spicy flavors. 

These grilled chicken leg quarters are juicy, tender, and oh so flavorful! Coated in with oil and a simple seasoning mix, grilled until deliciously golden, and then finished off with bbq sauce brushed on top, these grilled chicken legs are a perfect addition to any cookout!

Chicken leg quarters marinated in a fresh citrus, garlic and herb Cuban style mojo marinade and grilled to perfection. Juicy, tender and full of mouthwatering flavor, this mojo chicken recipe is easy enough for any night of the week and also perfect for dinner guests. It will quickly become one of your favorite easy chicken recipes.

Budget-friendly baked chicken leg quarters and potatoes are a great all-in-one meal. The perfect recipe for date night at home without a lot of work or expense.

Experience the zesty goodness of Chinese Chicken Salad with Lemon and Coriander, a vibrant and healthy dish perfect for any occasion.

This chicken's flavor provided by the tangy yogurt mixture is off the charts and really gives the chicken a great boost. The combination of warming spices (like mace, cloves, cumin, and allspice) and flavorful spices (like onion, pink peppercorns, and garlic) work exceptionally well with the yogurt. A few other ingredients round out a flavor profile here and we absolutely love the result!

Coq au Vin is a classic French dish from Burgundy. It involves cooking chicken in red or white wine – sounds irresistible already right? The chicken is braised in wine along with herbs and some vegetables. This results in a luscious, delicious, and tender pieces of chicken that literally fall off the bone! The wine and cooking liquid turn into a delectable sauce, making this the perfect dish to comfort the soul!

An easy, economical and delicious baked Hoisin baked chicken quarters (chicken legs with thighs attached), that can whipped up quickly using staples from your pantry. This chicken is also Weight Watchers friendly!

This recipe for slow cooker chicken quarters takes minutes to prep and is made using one pot - your crock pot! Just place the chicken in the crock pot, season and let it cook! 

Zereshk Polo Morgh is a well-known traditional Persian dish consisting of barberry rice and succulent chicken. This delightful dish is a harmonious blend of colors, aromas, and textures, which beautifully represents the lively nature of Persian cuisine.

These air fryer chicken leg quarters make an easy and perfect weeknight dinner recipe. This recipe is great for picky eaters. The chicken quarters are crisped to perfection on the outside with tender meat on the inside. Made with Indian Spices, this recipe is easily adaptable.

This grilled chicken recipe is loaded with flavor from the simple, fresh cilantro lime marinade and smoky char of the grill. It results in moist, juicy chicken that's perfect for an easy dinner all summer long!

Hurry Chicken is tender and juicy chicken that is seasoned to perfection. This recipe is a tribute to my late grandmother, who made this recipe and it always brings back the fondest memories. If you love chicken this is one recipe you can’t pass up making. 

Nashville hot chicken is easy to make at home. Give your chicken a good dredge and transfer to a skillet with oil to bubble its way into brown and crispy finger-licking fried chicken territory. Toss with a homemade cayenne pepper and paprika blasted sauce for the ultimate kick.

This savory, juicy and flavorful chicken is an easy and budget-friendly dinner the whole family will love! Made with Italian seasoning, garlic powder, lemon juice and olive oil, this is a simple and easy recipe! 

Maple bourbon glazed smoked chicken quarters are so juicy and crazy delicious. Smoke in the Big Green Egg, grill, or electric smoker, and enjoy the most succulent flavorful chicken of your life in less than two hours.

This khmeli suneli chicken and potato dinner is bursting with the rich flavors of Georgia! Served alongside a creamy walnut yogurt sauce, this easy sheet pan dinner is one you’ll want to make again and again!

This one-pot chicken with chorizo and Nduja bake make such a beautiful family meal. Delicious and quick to make, perfect for the end of a long exhausting day. One of those days when you come home and you just want to have a delish comfort meal. A meal that is ready in no time and takes little prep to get to the table. I am always up for such dishes and I am sure you are too.

A colorful and unbelievably delicious chicken with garlic, tomato sauce and polenta dish using chicken legs some root vegetables in a tomato sauce and the polenta, ingredients that go so well together , a fabulous marriage that will impress anyone's taste buds.

This one pot chicken and olive pesto sauce bake is made in a skillet, it takes very little to prepare and it's utterly delicious.

Chicken Normandy or chicken à la Normande is a traditional French casserole dish. Chicken is browned and slowly braised to perfection in a creamy apple cider sauce which is then finished off with caramelised apple wedges. This apple cider chicken is a classic French recipe full of delicious and comforting flavours. All in all, a hearty and warming fall or autumn meal you'll love. 

These air fryer chicken quarters are so easy to make. They have super crispy skin, and extra juicy meat and are cooked to perfection in less than 30 minutes! The chicken seasoning takes the flavor to the next level. Try serving it with some BBQ sauce or some cilantro garlic sauce.

These buffalo sauce Instant Pot chicken leg quarters are the perfect balance between tender juicy meat and delicious flavor. Chicken leg quarters are an economical cut that cook wonderfully in the pressure cooker and make for an incredibly easy dinner.

These amazing oven baked chicken leg quarters with crispy skin and tender meat are so easy to make, and perfect for healthy weeknight dinners.

This is probably The BEST Instant Pot Chicken Drumsticks recipe ever! The result is juicy, fall-off-the-bone chicken that is moist and flavorful, thanks in large part to the Instant Pot's magic. Seasoned with a dry rub and smothered with a nice bbq sauce on top! This is just pure heaven.