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Beer Can Chicken

Beer Can Chicken

Chicken doesn’t have to be dry – you can use beer to add some much-needed moisture and provide exceptional leftovers for tomorrow’s lunch. It’s extra tasty and you can try it yourself with our beer can chicken recipe.
Nothing beats the delicious smoked beer can chicken flavour, regardless of how you decide to cook it. You can make beer can chicken on a BBQ, or if you’re wondering how to make beer can chicken in the oven, that’s an option too.
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Beer Can Chicken

Chicken doesn’t have to be dry – you can use beer to add some much-needed moisture and provide exceptional leftovers for tomorrow’s lunch. It’s extra tasty and you can try it yourself with our beer can chicken recipe.
  • Serves: 6
  • Difficulty: Easy
  • Prep Time:
    10 mins
Tags: Roast Chicken,  BBQ,  Chicken,  Summer,  Match Day,  weekend dinner

Nothing beats the delicious smoked beer can chicken flavour, regardless of how you decide to cook it. You can make beer can chicken on a BBQ, or if you’re wondering how to make beer can chicken in the oven, that’s an option too.

How To Make Beer Can Chicken

Beer and chicken sounds like a great combination for an evening out with friends, but this exceptional beer can chicken recipe is definitely a reason to stay at home. If there’s anything better than beer and chicken, it’s the two combined into one incredible showstopper. Barbequed or cooked in the oven, you’ll be struggling to fend off hands reaching for your leftovers.

Ingredients Method

What you'll need

  • 1.8kg chicken
  • 440ml can of beer (pick for personal preference)
  • 3tbsp olive oil
  • 1tbsp paprika
  • 1tbsp ground coriander
  • 1tbsp ground cumin
  • 1tbsp dark brown sugar
  • 1tbsp ground black pepper
  • 1tsp salt

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 200˚ Meanwhile, combine your spices, leaving out the salt, to create a mix.
  2. When mixed, add your salt, olive oil and around half of the can of beer and whisk with a fork to create your beer can chicken rub.
  3. Drizzle the rub over the chicken and massage into the skin, making sure you get it in all areas (yes, even inside the cavity!).
  4. Use a can opener to take off the top of the beer can and place on a baking tray, or a roasting tray if you’re barbecuing.
  5. Place the chicken onto the can, legs down, so that it is sitting upright with the can inside the cavity.
  6. Give your chicken a home in the bottom of your oven for one hour and 20 minutes until the chicken is browned and the juices run clear. Alternatively, if you’re wondering how to do beer can chicken on a BBQ, simply follow the same steps and close the lid of the barbeque. Top tip: If the juices don’t run clear, cook the chicken for a further ten minutes and then check again!
  1. Serve up with a delicious side salad for a delectable mouthful.

 

And that’s our beer can chicken recipe – the perfect blend for a perfect taste. Now you know how to make beer can chicken, you can pick up the ingredients from your local SPAR. Looking for a recipe reload? Sign up to our E-newsletter for some more foody wonders – from seasonal recipes and guides to our latest deals and competitions.

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