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This was SO quick and easy. I used chicken tenders because it's what I had in my freezer, but you could easily use thighs or an entire chicken and just adjust the cooking time accordingly. Also, make sure you use a good barbecue sauce that you like; the chicken will taste just like whatever sauce you use. It's excellent served with a baked potato and a salad. Hope you enjoy!
Baked Barbecue Chicken
1 lb chicken tenders
1 tsp garlic powder
Salt and pepper
Prepared barbecue sauce (I used about 1 cup)
Preheat oven to 350. Season the chicken tenders with salt, pepper, and garlic powder. Bake them for 25 minutes in a dish sprayed with cooking spray. Then remove them from the oven, and pour the desired amount of barbecue sauce evenly over the chicken. Return to the oven and bake for 15 additional minutes.
I can't say enough good things about this pork. It was easy. It was delicious. It was very affordable. (Pork was on sale that week, and a Boston butt is even more affordable than a pork tenderloin and still so flavorful!) It only used a few ingredients. You have to try this!
Depending on the size of the Boston butt you get (and they're all pretty big), it feeds a crowd, so you could easily do some pulled pork sandwiches for the Super Bowl or any other get-together you have coming up. Ours had a small bone in it, but all the meat just fell off the bone, so it easy to remove. YUM!
Slow Cooker Pulled Pork
1 (3lb) Boston butt
Salt
Pepper
Minced onion flakes
12 oz root beer
1 (18oz) bottle barbecue sauce
8 hamburger buns, split and lightly toasted
Season the pork with salt, pepper, and onion flakes, and place the pork in the slow cooker. Pour root beer over the meat. Cover with lid and cook on low until well cooked and the pork shreds easily, 5.5-6 hours. Remove the pork from the slow cooker and shred with forks; drain crock pot. Put pork back into crock pot and cover with desired amount of barbecue sauce. Cook on low for an additional hour. Serve on hamburger buns.
This barbecue sauce is delicious! It's so good! It's a little sweet, which I love, and it also begins with the smell of onions sauteeing in butter, which is one of the best smells in the world. Bizzuck decided that for the Fourth of July, he'd rather have barbecue than hamburgers--because of this sauce. It didn't take very long, I already had all of the ingredients, and it can be made up to a week in advance. What's not to like? It's from the Southern Living Complete Quick and Easy Cookbook, so there's no surprise that it's so good.
Honey Barbecue Sauce
1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter
1 cup onion, diced (1/2 large onion for me)
1 cup ketchup
1/3 cup water
1/4 cup honey
2 Tbsp honey
1 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce
1/4 tsp black pepper
Melt butter in a small saucepan over medium heat, add the onion, and saute 4-5 minutes or until tender. Stir in ketchup and remaining ingredients; bring to a boil. Reduce heat, and simmer uncovered for 5 minutes. Stir leftover sauce in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to a week. Makes about 2 cups.
