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Oven Baked BBQ Chicken – easy, from scratch! Recipe
Baked BBQ Chicken – that is how I make Barbecue Chicken within the oven once I wish to fulfill my yearning for sticky, juicy chicken however I don’t wish to hearth up the BBQ. This recipe makes use of my fast selfmade BBQ sauce – off the charts good for one thing so easy!
It is a one pan, fast and simple dinner. 5 minute prep, dump and bake!
Oven Baked BBQ Chicken
This recipe used to have essentially the most generic of names – “Sticky Baked Chicken”. No person ever understood what it truly was, so I’d have to explain it. “It’s kinda candy, it’s savoury, and it has this superior glaze!”, I’d animatedly inform my associates, in a bid to persuade them that had to strive it.
(And properly, properly, properly, what have you learnt? Convincing folks they have to strive a recipe is now what I do for a full time job! 😂)
It wasn’t till I began this web site and I truly began cataloging my recipes correctly that it dawned on me that the sauce is absolutely only a simplified model of barbecue sauce, full size iterations of which you see in recipes like Barbecue Pork Ribs, Beef Ribs and BBQ Pulled Pork.
Half the components delivers 90% of the flavour.
For a midweek meal, I’ll take that!
↑↑↑ PS Up shut and private view so you may see STICKY exterior and JUICY inside!
What you want for Baked BBQ Chicken
Right here’s what you want. I don’t use – nor do we want – a rub for this recipe as a result of the chicken cooks in the BBQ Sauce so it sucks up loads of flavour. You’ll see the method steps under!
We want pores and skin to get a very beautiful glaze, and we want bone in items to allow them to be baked for 50 minutes so that they soak up the flavour from the barbecue sauce with out drying out.
How one can make Baked BBQ Chicken within the oven
And right here’s the way to make it. See? Dump-and-bake!
OK OK, I simplified it barely. It’s truly Dump -> Bake -> Baste -> Broil. The three minute broil is how we get the floor actually properly caramelised!
This oven baked BBQ Chicken is intentionally made with a barbecue sauce that’s thinned out with water so:
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it gained’t dry out within the oven; and
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to create sufficient sauce so the chicken absorbs the flavour because it bakes. We bake the chicken upside for the primary half, then flip it for the second half so each side get the advantage of the flavour, That is why we don’t want a rub for this recipe.
And you will LOVE the barbecue sauce you find yourself with within the baking dish! All of the juices from the chicken mixes in as you bake it, so that you mainly find yourself with a world-class barbecue sauce that’s acquired the advantage of the final word home-made chicken inventory!
What to serve with Baked BBQ Chicken
Within the spirit of all issues BBQ, I’m going to recommend traditional sides for a BBQ cook dinner out – and in addition some lighter alternate options simply in case you’re counting your energy!
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Traditional creamy Coleslaw – or strive our No Mayo Coleslaw (it’s glorious!) or this Cabbage Salad
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Potato Salad – or this Lemon Potato Salad, or use a Yogurt Potato Salad Dressing
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Corn slathered in butter
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Southern Baked Beans
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Cornbread or Dinner Rolls – for mopping
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Creamy Mashed Potato – or Creamy Cauliflower Mash (for drowning in sauce)
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Huge leafy salad with a salad dressing
Although having instructed all these sides, it’s truly pictured above with this Inexperienced Bean Salad 😂. – Johnsat x
Watch the way to make it
Ingredients
- 1 cup ketchup or Australian/UK tomato sauce
- 1/4 cup apple cider vinegar
- 2 tsp Worcestershire Sauce
- 4 tbsp brown sugar
- 2 tsp mustard powder
- 2 tsp onion powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp fresh black pepper
- 1 cup water
- 1.5 kg / 3 lb chicken thighs (bone in skin on), drumsticks or wings (Note 2)
- Fresh parsley, chives or finely chopped green onions , for garnish
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 200°C/390°F.
- Sauce: Mix all Sauce ingredients in a ceramic/glass baking dish (Note 3), then mix in water.
- Add chicken and turn to coat. Place chicken skin side down.
- Bake for 20 minutes. Remove from oven, turn chicken, spoon over Sauce.
- Bake for a further 30 minutes, then remove and spoon over Sauce.
- Skim off fat (optional): Tilt pan and spoon or drain off excess fat.
- Broil/grill – Change to broiler/grill on high. Spoon sauce over chicken generously, then place under grill / broiler for 2 to 3 minutes to caramelise the chicken and the sauce to thicken more. Do not walk away – this can happen quickly!
- Serve chicken, garnished with parsley or green onions, if using. Pictured in post with Mashed Potato and Green Bean Salad (minus feta).
- Cornbread, Coleslaw, Potato Salad (or try this no mayo Lemon Potato Salad), Southern Baked Beans, big leafy salad with classic Vinaigrette, steamed corn with butter, bread rolls, creamy mashed potato (or Creamy Cauliflower Mash for low carb emergency!), or Potato & Gravy.
Notes
1. Sauce subs:
Ketchup – sub with Tomato Sauce (ie Aussie/UK tomato sauce, not what US calls “tomato sauce”)
Cider vinegar – can sub with white wine, sherry or champagne vinegar, OR 2 tbsp normal white vinegar
Onion powder – sub garlic powder or 1 garlic clove, finely minced
2. Chicken – This recipe is best made with bone-in, skin-on chicken pieces – thigh, drumsticks and wings.
Breast / boneless thighs – won’t get quite the same result because longer bake time gets chicken juices into the sauce. But it can be done! Here’s how:
Mix sauce WITHOUT water
Use 1 kg / 2 lb breast or boneless thighs
Follow the cooking directions in this recipe – Sticky Baked Chicken Thighs. ie coat with 2/3 sauce, bake on high, baste with remaining sauce & broil/grill to finish.
3. TIPS:
Pan – light scrubbing will be required to clean! So either use glass/ceramic OR metal pan lined with foil then parchment/baking paper.
Sauce thickness at end depends one many factors eg – how snug the chicken is in the baking dish, how juicy / fatty the chicken is, oven accuracy. But very easy to adjust – too thick, add splash of water, too thin, return just the pan to the oven for a minute or two (thickens super quickly)
4. Barbecue Sauce recipe adapted from this one by the Neely’s from Food Network.
5. Nutrition per serving, assuming 3 tbsp excess fat is spooned off and all sauce is consumed.
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