BBQ Chicken – Southern Food Done Right
BBQ Chicken
BBQ chicken is one of the favorite foods that you’ll find on the Southern menu – but its popularity is certainly not limited to the South. BBQ chicken is beloved by folks from coast to coast and around the globe – and whether you prepare it at home or if you choose to eat BBQ chicken at your favorite restaurant, BBQ chicken is an American classic.
The Flavor
BBQ chicken does not refer so much to the cooking method of the chicken but to the flavor of the chicken. BBQ chicken is doused in BBQ sauce and baked or cooked on the BBQ grill. BBQ chicken can be tangy or sweet this is entirely dependent on the type of BBQ sauce that is used to cook the chicken in. BBQ is an American favorite each region has particular favorite BBQ sauce and the resulting chicken that is cooked in it. BBQ chicken that is found in the southeast US is most likely to have a tang to it thanks to the vinegar based BBQ sauce that is favored in that region. There are tomato based BBQ sauces to which honey is added resulting in a sweet flavor.
How to Cook BBQ Chicken
Clearly the best way to cook BBQ chicken is on a BBQ grill. A BBQ grill may not be practical so the next best thing is in the oven cooking. Baking BBQ chicken will also require a few minutes under the broiler to get the skin of the chicken a little charbroiled. Baking BBQ chicken in the over will work out fine as long as the chicken is turned throughout the cooking period and there is sufficient BBQ sauce used. The very first step in preparing any chicken recipe is to wash the chicken thoroughly and dry it. Marinating the chicken in BBQ sauce, the chicken can be marinated for up to twenty four hours before cooking. The oven should be preheated before putting the BBQ chicken in the oven. The best temperature to cook BBQ chicken at is three hundred and fifty degrees. BBQ chicken cooked in the oven will still reflect the flavor of BBQ chicken. BBQ chicken can also be cooked on a rotisserie.
Restaurants
There are many restaurants especially in the southeast US that offer BBQ chicken on the menu. There are lunch specials that offer BBQ chicken and dinners that offer BBQ chicken. Most restaurants do not actually barbeque their BBQ chicken because it is not practical; there are small family owned restaurants that do in fact use a barbeque grill to cook their BBQ chicken. These family style restaurants are often favored by the locals for their BBQ chicken.
BBQ chicken is a great American meal.