BBQ Chicken

AHHHHH I just sent an email out to a friend of ours asking about my BBQ chicken recipe, and so while typing the email my mouth began to water and it just sounded SO GOOD to me right now! BBQ CHICKEN wooooohooooo!!

so anyways, here's the excerpt from the email I thought I'd share with the rest of the world.

Here’s what I can recall doing with my chicken…
But before that, here’s what I didn’t do that I should have done:
- Boil/steam (steam is better) the chicken before marinating it. Why? Coz you save time on the BBQ. Since it’s already cooked before it was marinated, you can just BBQ for a short time just for the taste, color and fun of it without having to wait forever for the pieces of meat to cook.

Okie, here’s the recipe:
- BBQ sauce (any will do, but I used “Essentia" brand Southwestern Chipotle flavor. I forgot where I bought it. Sorry…) This is your PRIMARY INGREDIENT so be generous with this
- Thick, black, sweet soy sauce (I use the ABC brand “kecap manis” from HK market)
- Generous amounts of chopped up garlic and onions. Blended would work just as well, if not better.
- Some lemon juice
- Mayonnaise (the real stuff, not miracle whip)
- Italian seasoning
- Chopped up rosemary (I have some you can use)
- Pepper
- A little bit of cooking rice wine (optional)

Put all those in together in a gigantic mixing bowl, mix it well. As for the portions, I dunno lah. I don’t really pay attention to the portions…I just “see” and improvise. You can try that. The idea is to create a thick sauce that will stick with the pieces of meat as much as possible, yet watery enough for the juices to seep into the meat. And then throw in the chopped steamed/boiled chicken pieces, and use your hands to work it into the meat. Be careful because since the chicken is cooked, it will be EASY to separate the meat from the bones. You don’t want that (BBQ is always nicer IMHO with bones in the meat). Cover the chicken and leave marinating overnight in the fridge.

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