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Oven Beer Can Chicken

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Chicken + beer + oven = moist juicy deliciousness

Ingredients

  • ¼ cups Montreal Steak Seasoning (glorified Salt And Pepper)
  • 1 teaspoon Cajun Seasoning
  • 3 Tablespoons Brown Sugar
  • 1 whole Chicken
  • 1 whole (12 Oz. Size) Beer

Preparation

Mix the seasonings and sugar together. This is the rub I used, but it’s quite flexible if you want to add cayenne pepper or anything else or a totally different rub altogether.

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F

Clean up the chicken–remove giblets, rinse etc. Rub the rub of your choice all over the outside and under the skin trying not to rip the skin.

Open the beer can, drink a few large swallows. Add any remaining rub you have to the beer. Place the beer can in a metal pan with at least 2 inch sides.

Spray the can on the side with nonstick cooking spray. You really don’t want to skip this step or the chicken will stick!

Sit the chicken up on the beer can so that the can goes inside the chicken and balances on the beer can and the chicken’s two legs.

Bake the chicken at 400F for 30 minutes. Then reduce the oven temp to 350F until the chicken is cooked (for my 4 pound chicken it took around 1 hour). Cooked means at least 180F degrees internal temperature with a meat thermometer and delightfully crispy.

Remove the chicken from the oven and let it rest for about 15 minutes. Now, you need to get the chicken off of the can. If you’re lucky, you can grab the whole chicken with some giant tongs and it will slide off. If you’re like me, you need to punch a hole in the bottom of the can and let the beer drain out into the baking pan. Move the chicken somewhere to carve it and then use the tongs to grab the can and yank it out.

Enjoy.

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leejilli on 3.9.2011

sounds delicious! i’m sure i won’t have any trouble persuading andrew to take a few large gulps from the beer can. :)

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Daphne on 10.3.2011

Chicken came out very juicy, even the leftovers were moist. Didn’t have problems getting the can out either.

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