Hay baked cider chicken on the Braai (BBQ)
Hay baked cider chicken on the Braai (BBQ)

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Last week on Tom Kerridge's Proper Pub Food, he made Cider in Hay using Henney's Dry Cider - we were delighted, and this weekend we decided to have a crack. We're to simmer the chicken on the stove top first then bake it. Total Time Pat the chicken completely dry with a paper towel.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook hay baked cider chicken on the braai (bbq) using 8 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Hay baked cider chicken on the Braai (BBQ):
  1. Make ready 1 large chicken
  2. Take 1 whole garlic
  3. Make ready 4 bay leafs
  4. Get 1 sheet muslin cloth
  5. Make ready 4 handfuls hay
  6. Prepare 1 bottle cider
  7. Get Salt and pepper
  8. Take BBQ with a lid

Fire up your BBQ grill and cook the chicken over MEDIUM heat, making sure to turn the pieces regularly so that the chicken is evenly cooked. You can add about half a cup of water to the leftover marinade and cook it down into a thick sauce to serve with the braai chicken, along with some salad. This crispy oven bbq chicken recipe uses only TWO INGREDIENTS - barbecue sauce and chicken (plus a little olive oil, salt, and pepper) - to make the crispiest, most perfectly glazed, sweet, sticky, and juicy baked barbecue chicken you will ever have. Lay chicken pieces, skin side up, in a large baking pan.

Instructions to make Hay baked cider chicken on the Braai (BBQ):
  1. Light the Braai. Once the coals are hot move to the side for indirect heat and put on the lid. Get up to about 180c
  2. Flatten the whole garlic cloves. Stuff the chicken with half of the bay leafs and garlic and place the others on top. Season
  3. Wrap the chicken in muslin and tie with string
  4. In a pan create a bed of hay. Place the chicken on top and moisten the hay by pouring in the cider. Tuck all the hay in so it doesn’t overhang and catch fire 🔥
  5. Place on the bbq and cook with the lid on for approx 1:30-2hrs
  6. Halfway through cooking flip the chicken and pour in more cider to keep moist
  7. Undo the muslin after the chicken had cooked till the juices run clear
  8. On a direct coal heat now grill the skin until browned. Approx 5mins
  9. Rest, carve and enjoy 😊

Place chicken pieces over a medium-hot grill, brushing once more lightly with leftover sauce. This cider can chicken is a real BBQ showstopper. Cooking the chicken over a can keeps the meat moist and full of flavour while the peppy chimichurri sauce takes it to another level. Sit the chicken upright on the barbecue with the breasts facing away from the direct heat. Add the apples and allow to soften for one minute.

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