Homemade BBQ Sauce & BBQ Chicken Recipes

Tom created this BBQ sauce recipe last weekend - it is delicious.  What makes me like it even more is that  I know what exactly is in the marinade we are using!

The recipe serves four, so Tom and I marinaded a whole chicken (quartered) in two separate gallon sized zip loc bags and got two dinners out of the recipes.  We prepared the sauce on Sunday and had the chicken on Tuesday and Wednesday.  You only have to marinate overnight, but the longer you marinate, the better it will taste!

This recipe calls for baking the chicken.  This weekend we also want to see how it works out in a crock pot.

Homemade BBQ Sauce

Ingredients
1 teaspoon olive oil
2 medium shallots, chopped
2 tablespoons minced garlic
1 tablespoon Hickory Liquid Smoke
1 tablespoon chipotle peppers in adobo sauce
1 cup ketchup
1/3 cup water
1/3 cup Dijon mustard
1 tablespoon pad Thai sauce
1 tablespoon brown sugar
1 tablespoon honey
1 tablespoon crushed kuzu dissolved in 1/4 cup of cool water (click here for instructions)
1/4 stick of butter

Directions

1. In a medium sized sauce pan, heat over medium flame the olive oil, shallots and garlic.
2. Add brown sugar and pour in liquid smoke and stir. 
3. Add ketchup, water, dijon mustard, and pad thai sauce and mix ingredients. 
4. Add kuzu and honey, stir, and continue to cook on a low simmer for 15 minutes.  Stir continually to ensure the sauce does not separate. 
5. Set aside and cool.
6. Pour into blender and blend until smooth.

This is what ours looked like once it was finished cooking: 

Baked BBQ Chicken

Ingredients

1. 1 whole chicken quartered (pick a size that best suites your family needs) 
2. Homemade BBQ Sauce

Directions - Marinade

1. Quarter whole chicken. 
2. Place dinner portions in separate bags (if we are preparing dinner for just the two of us, a whole chicken will provide two meals - we'll put each meal in a separate bag). 
3. Marinate for at least 24 hours. 

    

Ingredients

1. Marinated chicken
2. Approx 1 cup chicken stock

Directions - BBQ Chicken

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. 
2. Add chicken broth to baking pan (fill approx 1/4 to 1/2 of the pan). 
3. Add chicken and pour remaining BBQ sauce over top of chicken. 
4. Cover with foil and place in the oven. 
5. Cook for one hour and remove foil.  
6. Cook for an additional one half hour.  

The chicken broth should make your chicken extra tender - ours fell right off the bone (especially if you marinate the chicken for a long time ~48 hours).  

Serve with quinoa and roasted vegetables.  

Enjoy!