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Beer-can Chicken

Beer-can Chicken — a chicken recipe, 4 ingredients, about 120 min.

Serves 4 · 120 min · Chicken

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Ingredients

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  • 1 recipe spice rub (or use your own recipe)
  • 2 bay leaves, crumbled
  • 1 can (12 ounces / ~355 ml) of beer
  • 3–4 pound (1.5–2 kg) chicken (dressed)

Steps

  1. Poke holes all over chicken to let fat run out during cooking.
  2. Rub chicken thoroughly with spice rub: inside and out, and then under skin as far as you can reach
  3. Set aside chicken.
  4. Remove upper racks from oven.
  5. Preheat oven to 350°F (180°C).
  6. When oven preheated, take a healthy drink of the beer, leaving about 9–10 ounces.
  7. Crumble bay leaves into beer, in beer can.
  8. Insert beer can firmly into chicken cavity.
  9. Place chicken upright in shallow heatproof pan.
  10. Bake chicken upright for 1–1.5 hours until thickest part is 165°F (73°C).
  11. When removing chicken from oven, keep upright.
  12. Rest chicken upright 15 minutes before removing beer can.

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Source

Wikibooks Cookbook — adapted under CC BY-SA 3.0