Tuesday, 8 September 2009

BBQ Beer Can Chicken

Here's one I spotted in the Metro a while back, looks a great way to BBQ a whole chicken, but you need one of those proper dome lidded barbie's so it will fit.

Ingredients:


  • A whole chicken
  • A can of booze
  • Butter
  • Garlic
  • Paprika
  • Rosemary (so they say, but I suspect tarragon would be better)
  • Olive oil
  • 1/2 a lemon


Method


  • Remove the giblets and cut of the parsons nose
  • Mix up the butter with the herbs, paprika, garlic and lemon
  • Stuff the mixture under the skin (can you do this with chickens, I'm making it up now)
  • Stuff the mixture somewhere else if the above isn't feasible
  • Rub some of the mix into the skin
  • Empty half the booze down your neck, then stick the can up the chicken's harris
  • Put the can/chicken cyborg onto the barbeque so the can is sitting on the grill and the chicken is upright
  • Close the lid and cook for an hour
The general idea here seems to be that you barbeque the chicken on the outside and yet it also gets beer steamed from the inside.