Sugar-Free Grilled BBQ Chicken
 
Ingredients
  • Sugar-Free Sweet and Spicy BBQ Sauce (two times if you like things really saucy and you are going to marinate your chicken)
  • 15 lbs mixed chicken pieces, bone in/skin on
  • Monterey Marinade one time (if you want to marinate your chicken that day; if you are using skinless chicken rather than the skin on listed above, I recommend marinating)
Instructions
  1. Make BBQ sauce as directed here two times for fifteen pounds of saucy chicken.
  2. Optional: Save out one cup of the BBQ sauce and make Monterey Marinade if you will be marinating your chicken for a few hours ahead of time.
  3. Optional: Make Monterey Marinade one time.
  4. Optional: Place your chicken in a large bowl or huge crock pot insert and pour marinade over all. Let sit in fridge for an hour or more to marinate. (Do not marinate out on counter—even if your chicken is frozen as some will defrost sooner than others and you risk spoilage of the early-defrosted chicken.)
  5. Optional: Place crock pot in the base and cook until internal temperature reaches 120 degrees or so. (For my super-hot crock pot, this is two hours on high followed by two hours on low.)
  6. Note: I always start any chicken in the crock pot on high for an hour or two (even chicken I am shredding for casseroles, etc.,). I feel it is safer than having chicken in a warm environment for too long (rather than in a “cooking state,” which it gets into more quickly on high for an hour.
  7. Optional: If you want to precook in the oven, that is another option, making sure it reaches the internal temperature listed.
  8. Transfer chicken to grill and use a brush to slather the BBQ sauce over both sides of the chicken.
  9. Cook on medium heat for twenty to forty minutes, depending on your grill and how precooked your meat was (longer if you did not precook!).
  10. Turn frequently and sauce often. Chicken is done when it reaches an internal temperature of 165 degrees. (I always use a meat thermometer for chicken—and I have been known to get my married kids meat thermometers every year for Christmas…you know, in case they lost last year’s!)
Notes
This can also be made in the oven. I would recommend baking it a hot oven then broiling at the end to get the BBQ sauce cooked into the skin just so!
Recipe by Donna Reish at https://donnareish.com/sugar-free-grilled-bbq-chicken/