How To Barbecue Chicken

I'm going to show you how to barbecue chicken. Now, what I've done is I've burned the chicken out, so we've got the legs and the thighs here. They take a lot longer to cook, and my little secret tip is put these in the oven for 10 minutes before you actually barbecue them, and the reason you do that is just because they do take a lot longer to cook.

Now, I'm going to put these in the oven, and we'll take those out in about 10 minutes' time. Those have been in the oven for about 10, 15 minutes, and I just think it's a great little trick, because chicken does take a lot longer to cook, and you just want to give it a bit of a head start by putting it in a domestic oven. But look, I've got the legs, the thighs here, and those are all going to cook off, you know, in the next sort of five or six minutes.

You may say, "What's the point if you've already cooked it off in the oven?" But I think the whole point of a barbecue is to get that lovely charred flavor from the coals, and you know, you're going to pick that up in the last six or seven minutes of cooking. Furthermore, it's not going to overcook the chicken and, you know, at the same time, it's not going to burn it. You know, if you just have chicken on a barbie, I do think that you run the risk of having it burned all over.

Now, what we've done earlier on over here, and this is one of the delights of barbecue cooking, is we took two escallops or two breasts of chicken. I just laid them in between two sheets of cling film, just knock them into an escallop. I cooked those off in advance, and they take about three minutes.

You cook them maybe about a minute and a half to two minutes on the side. By leaving them over here, on the side where there's no charcoal, you can still retain some heat whilst carrying on cooking. Well, the wings, as you can see, I mean that one got nicely burned, but by and large, the wings are done pretty good.

I'm leaving that one on there for a bit longer. And as you can see, I'm just turning the chicken because I want them to look like that the whole way 'round, but there! You see that? It's beautiful. In about two or three minutes, it's going to be ready.

I've left these as is, but you know, nice for the chicken seasoning, when they come out of the oven on here, works quite nicely and also, you can get a barbecue sauce. But you don't want to put the barbecue sauce on too early, which is another reason why I think you should cook barbecue chicken on a barbecue, you know, after it's been in the oven for a little bit. That's sort of what you want to be working with.

You want your chicken to look like that. That's really lovely and golden. Ladies and gents, that is how to barbecue chicken. .