Beer Chicken
 

Here's a recipe I threw together the other day...turned out pretty good.

One whole chicken
One bottle of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
Dried parsley
Dried oregano
Garlic
Poultry seasoning ( if the unsalted kind then salt will be a good addition)
Red chili flakes (more you add the better the heat :thumbsup:)
Chili powder


Place chicken in a one gallon ziplock bag. Pour in bottle of beer and all the seasonings. Add as much of any one seasoning as you would like, within reason of course. Marinate all day, then pop into a pyrex dish and place in the oven at 375, using a meat thermometer until internal temp of clucky gets to be 180. Save the marinade and baste chicken regularly while cooking.

This turned out really yummy, I served it with garlic mashed potatoes and seasoned cauliflower.

Sounds tasty!

A couple food safety notes--the recommended internal temperature for poultry has changed from 180 to 165 degrees. And don't baste too close to completion with the marinade, unless the marinade has been brought to a boil. Cross contamination can have nasty consequences.

For more information: http://www.fsis.usda.gov/FactSheets/...ting/index.asp

Oh thanks for that addition! I didn't know they lowered the temp standard. I still cook my chicken till about 180 because every time I cook for any less I still get blood spots, could just be due to crappy apartment oven.


*Extra note: all of my marinade had been added within an hour and I would pull the liquid from the pan to baste with for the rest of the time. This let the chicken cook in the beer and be basted as well. The lower part of the chicken was awesome and the breast stayed really moist.

Sounds great. Are you using a 12oz bottle of SA or a bomber?

Yea it was a 12oz bottle. Tho I don't see any reason you couldn't use more if you wanted.

We tried something similar while camping... take the chicken (inside cleaned out) and put a can of beer inside with holes poked in it. Wrap the chicken in aluminium foil and place upright on the campfire (grate covered camp ring with enough hot embers to cook it for about an hour). Turned out super moist and tasty.

I saw Paula Deen from the Foodnetwork do something like that. It looked interesting. What kind of beer did you use? im2smrt4u won't buy any of the standard beers that come in cans. (BEER SNOB!)

We could use a can of Oskar Blues Dale's Pale Ale. :p

Yeah I can't say I'm a beer snob so it was a domestic light beer. You could however utilize a can of another sort by cutting the appropriate holes and then draining it and adding the snobby beer of your choice. LOL