Barbecued Chicken

Name: Barbecued Chicken
Prep time: 2 h
Cook time: 2 h
Total time: 2 h
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 slice bacon; 8 servings Barbecue Sauce; 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper; 8 servings freshly ground black pepper; 8 servings Brine; 59 milliliters firmly packed light brown sugar; 8 chicken quarters (7 to 8 lbs. total); 1 Tbsp dry mustard; 4 sprigs fresh thyme; 10 sprigs fresh thyme; 2 garlic cloves, chopped; 2 garlic cloves, smashed; 1 teaspoon ground cumin; 473 milliliters ketchup; 2 Tbsps About kosher salt; 8 servings Kosher salt; 59 milliliters light brown sugar; 59 milliliters molasses; 2 Tbsps extra-virgin olive oil; 8 servings Extra-virgin olive oil; 1 onion, chopped; 1 teaspoon paprika; 2 Tbsps red or white wine vinegar

Barbecued Chicken is a gluten free and dairy free recipe with 8 servings. One serving contains 644 calories, 25g of protein, and 43g of fat. This recipe covers 17% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. If you have brine, kosher salt, chicken quarters, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the red wine vinegar you could follow this main course with the Cherry-Berry Pie as a dessert. It works well as a budget friendly main course. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 2 hours.

Instructions

Mix brine ingredients with 2 qts. water in a 2-gal. resealable plastic bag.

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Brine

Water

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Ziploc Bags

Add chicken, seal, and chill for 15 minutes to 2 hours.

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Whole Chicken

Make sauce: Wrap bacon around thyme; tie with kitchen twine.

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Bacon

Sauce

Thyme

Wrap

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Kitchen Twine

Heat oil in a saucepan over medium heat.

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Cooking Oil

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Sauce Pan

Add thyme bundle and cook 3 to 4 minutes.

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Thyme

Add onion and garlic. Cook over medium-low heat, stirring until softened, about 5 minutes. Stir in remaining ingredients and cook over low heat, covered, 20 minutes.

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Garlic

Onion

Remove thyme; spoon 1/2 of sauce into a bowl.

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Sauce

Thyme

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Bowl

Prepare a gas barbecue for two-level heat (500 to 550 in one area and about 300 in another). Wipe cooking grate with oiled paper towels. Pat chicken dry with more paper towels, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and drizzle with some oil.

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Salt And Pepper

Whole Chicken

Cooking Oil

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Paper Towels

Grill chicken skin side down on high-heat area 5 to 7 minutes. Move pieces to cooler area, turning over, and cook 20 minutes, covered. Spoon sauce from pan onto skin side and cook chicken until an instant-read thermometer measures 160 at thickest part (or cut to test), 15 to 20 minutes.

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Whole Chicken

Sauce

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Kitchen Thermometer

Grill

Frying Pan

Let rest 5 minutes.

Serve with sauce in bowl.

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Sauce

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Bowl

TYLER'S FIXES

Add moisture. Brine your chicken using a solution of salt, sugar, and seasonings. The meat will plump up and absorb the seasonings, so the flavor isn't just on the skin. (This also works really well for pork and short ribs.)

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Seasoning

Beef Short Ribs

Meat

Brine

Sugar

Pork

Salt

Set up two heat zones. Create a hot zone and a medium to low zone. One mistake people make is grilling thicker cuts, like bone-in chicken and pork chops, over direct high heat. They'll burn on the outside and stay raw inside.

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Pork Chops

Whole Chicken

Bone

Start the chicken skin side down. To get crispy, golden skin, put it skin side down over the hot zone and let it turn a nice, golden brown. Then flip it over onto the medium zone to finish cooking.

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Whole Chicken

Make your own barbecue sauce. It's easy and you'll look like a rock star.

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Barbecue Sauce