Roasted Barbecue Chicken
Ingredients
4-½ pounds Roasting Chicken
2 Tablespoons Melted Butter
2 whole Lemons Cut In Half
¼ cups Barbecue Sauce
½ Tablespoons Salt and Pepper
Preparation
1
Take the giblets and neck out of the chicken, rinse the inside and outside of the chicken with cold water. Pat dry.
2
Sprinkle the inside of the chicken with salt & pepper and place lemons inside the cavity of the chicken. Place the bird in a roasting pan with an oven rack or if you don’t have a rack, place onions, celery, carrots at the bottom of the pan and let the chicken rest on that. You don’t want the chicken sitting in it’s own juices.
3
Rub the top of the chicken with melted butter and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
4
Preheat oven to 450 degrees F and cook whole (thawed) chicken for 10-15 minutes.
5
Then reduce the temperature to 350 degrees F and roast for 20 minutes per pound. For me it was an 1 hours 30 minutes. Temperature needs to register 165 to be done.
6
During the last 30 minutes of cooking, brush on the barbecue sauce.
7
Once chicken is done, place aluminum foil over the top and let it rest about 20 minutes
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About
This is the most tender barbecue chicken ever, which is due to the high heat cook method.
Yield:
8
Added:
Thursday, January 19, 2012 - 4:27am
