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Barbecue beer can chicken recipe
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Barbecue beer can chicken recipe

5 ingredients 15 min + 1 hr 30 min 4 people openrecipes

BBQ expert Clare Edwards uses cherry woodchips to smoke her wonderfully moist beer can chicken.

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

301
Calories
33g
Protein
4g
Fat
27g
Carbs

Counts 5 of 7 ingredients — the other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 5 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Chicken 100g cooked 165
Cherry 1 cup (138g) 87
Beer 1/4 cup (60ml) for cooking 43
Black Pepper 1 tsp ground (2.3g) 6
Salt 1 tsp (6g) 0
Wood not in our table 0
Rapeseed Oil not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 2 handfuls of cherry wood chips
  • 1.5 whole organic chicken
  • kg glug rapeseed oil, for rubbing
  • 1 salt and pepper
  • 1 can beer or stout, preferably Mackesons Stout, open

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By lovefood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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