With 11.3 pounds of raw chicken to prepare, and the desire not to make the same thing twice during Chicken Fest, I hit my cookbooks and the internet for ideas.
Tonight, I am making a crockpot full of BBQ chicken, much like pulled pork, but chicken.
I found this recipe on the blog "Test Kitchen Recipes".
http://testkitchenrecipes.blogspot.com/2008/05/bbq-shredded-chicken-sandwich-and-red.html
I'm doing it a little differently. I have 3 chicken breasts in my crockpot, more sauce than the Test Kitchen Recipes version called for (double batch of the recipe below), and there's a whole medium sweet vidalia onion in there. I put the chicken in raw, but not frozen. This should be ready by the time The Simpsons comes on.
I didn't have any barbeque sauce, but, oddly enough, had all the ingredients to make my own.
(I never did make that Chex Mix that I bought the Worcestershire sauce for.)
My homemade barbeque sauce is a variation of the
sauce recipe from Jimmy's Farm. (Here's
my earlier post about Jimmy's Farm.) To make the sauce "Chris-friendly" (because my husband has the tastes of a small child) I omitted the Tabasco sauce, and (probably more than) doubled the brown sugar.
THE MAGGIE'S BBQ SAUCE
1/2 cup ketchup
1/4 cup balsamic vinegar
1/4 cup dark brown sugar (or was it 1/2? I was throwing in hard brown sugar clumps, not level scoops)
4 teaspoons granulated garlic
4 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
2 teaspoons paprika
2 teaspoons chili powder
DIRECTIONS: Put all ingredients in a bowl. Mix all ingredients together with a whisk or fork. If desired, pretend you are a mad scientist or the witches in Macbeth.
Wow, this smells so awesome. I can't wait for it to be ready!
It's 9 o'clock, and dinner was excellent. I turned down the heat to low for the last couple hours, because the meat was fully cooked by then but just needed to fall apart. Inspired by the Test Kitchen Recipes, I also made potato salad. I didn't have bacon in mine, but that would have been nice. Of course, we have leftovers enough that I won't have to cook tomorrow. Yay for that.
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