How can you make chicken barbecue?

Answer 1

Shredded Chicken Barbecue

Ingredients:

4 pounds boneless skinless chicken thighs, or thighs and breasts mixed

Olive oil

1 large onion, diced

2 cloves garlic, minced

2 teaspoons smoked paprika

2 teaspoons salt

1 teaspoon Black pepper

1 1/2 cups (12 ounces) barbecue sauce

Procedure:

• Heat oven to 325 degrees F.
  
• Using a paper towel, pat chicken pieces dry.
  
• Heat a drizzle of olive oil over medium heat in a Dutch oven or heavy pot with a lid.
  
• Cook onion and garlic in olive oil for 5 minutes or until soft.
  
• Add smoked paprika and stir.
  
• Add chicken one piece at a time, mixing well with the onion-garlic mixture. Stir in salt and black pepper.
  
• Pour in barbecue sauce, bring to a simmer, then turn off the heat.
  
• *Cover the pot with the lid and place in the oven.
  
• Bake, covered, for 1 1/2 hours, or until the chicken is extremely tender. Remove from the oven and transfer the chicken to a large bowl using a slotted spoon.
  
• Finely shred the chicken with two forks. It's too hot to shred by hand.
  
• Put the sauce, uncovered, back on the burner over high heat.
  
• While you're shredding the chicken, bring the sauce to a boil.
  
• Allow the liquid to boil down (reduce) to about half of its original volume. Pour thickened sauce over the chicken and stir.
  
• Serve with buns and extra barbecue sauce on the side.
  

Procedure for slow cooker:

• Follow the above recipe as written above to the * at which point, you pour the chicken and sauce into the slow cooker.
  
• Cook 5 to 7 hours on LOW.
  
• You can remove the chicken and reduce the sauce in a saucepan pan on the stove burner, but this is optional, and the sauce may not need to be reduced if it has thickened while cooking.
  
• Recipe yields 8 to 10 servings.