Your best BBQ chicken recipe...

[paysensmom]

My son has to cook a half chicken on a grill for 4-H. Any tips, tricks, suggestions to make it yummo? I cannot help him the day of, but want to practice with him before at home.

 

[shoney]

I'm bumping this up for you. I'd like to know too! LOL

I made chicken pieces the other day...just washed and put salt and pepper on them. I heated the grill but then turnned it down to low. I turned often for almost 60 minutes. At about the 50 min mark, I basted with BBQ sauce and let it cook in. It was very good, but I am sure there has to be some interesting ways of doing it out there!

 

[drgreene1096]

Does it have to be a 1/2 chicken while cooking or can the finished product just be a 1/2?

If you can cook a whole chicken, cut into a 1/2, do beer butt chicken. Put a nice chicken rub on the outside and inside of the chicken, dump about 1 inch out of the top of a beer can...put some garlic and chicken rub down in the beer. Fit the chicken over the beer can and place on a low to medium heat grill...turn as necessary to avoid burning...yummy!

 

[pooh2001]

DS loves bar-b-q...DD just likes it
So I take Baby Rays bar-b-q sauce and add some Heinz ketchup to tone it down.
Both DS & DD then will eat the bar-b-q chicken.

 

[tasha99]

I mix equal parts brown sugar and salt together, then rub a small amount (1/4 tsp-1/2 tsp?) into each piece. Cook over charcoal indirect heat for about an hour. It's yummy. The temptation is to use more rub than necessary, but as it's half salt, that would be a mistake.

 

[ENSOCK]

Check with 4H as I don't think they will let him use beer but instead try it with apple juice or any other liquid that will give the chicken a good flavor.

If the chicken is in pieces, my DH puts it on the grill and flips it every 15 min. for 2 hours. Fall off the bone good!

 

[paysensmom]

He can't use beer. We did a trial run with homemade sauce. It was good, but after you eat the outside layer with the sauce, the meat is pretty bland. Any suggestions on making it tastier on the inside without marinating or injecting anything?

 

[powellrj]

Have you tried using a brine? I have never done it, but after hours of watching the food network, they seem to use brines alot!

 

[Gigi22]

Use a marinade. My mom used to make some pretty tasty grilled chicken by marinating pieces (you could do a half chicken) in Kraft (you could use any other brand, but Kraft was easily available) Italian salad dressing in the fridge.

You could make sure the entire 1/2 chicken gets evenly marinated by putting the salad dressing in a large ziploc bag, adding the chicken, carefully squeezing out the extra air, and shutting the bag.

 

[MomtoGKC]

There was a Martha Stewart recipe for chicken cooked on the grill on the Today Show this week. I think if you go on their website you should be able to find It easily.

 

[Mrs. Bradbury]

My family LOVES the chicken marinade recipe on the back of the Old Bay seasoning container. It's crazy good! For best flavor it needs to marinate at least 24 hours; 48 would be better. Notice that the amounts given are per pound of chicken - I usually have to double the recipe, if not triple.

I went to their website to copy & paste for you, but I'm not finding the one that's on the back of the can. Strange! It uses lemon juice, and oil, and a few other things I can't remember off the top of my head.