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Beer-can chicken

17

Points®

Total time: 1 hr 40 min • Prep: 10 min • Cook: 1 hr 30 min • Serves: 4 • Difficulty: Easy

Here’s the ultimate way for a guy to roast a chicken! Sunday dinner just got a whole lot better.

Ingredients

Beer

½ can(s)

Uncooked roasting chicken

1 chicken

Steak sauce

4 tbsp(s), or dry barbecue spice rub

Instructions

1

Position rack in lower third of oven; heat oven to 375°F.

2

Massage chicken inside and out with spice rub. Stand can of beer open-side up in a large roasting pan; slip chicken’s large opening over beer can so that combination of beer can and chicken legs holds chicken up in roasting pan.

3

Roast for 1 1/2 hours, or until cooked through (an instant-read meat thermometer inserted into thickest part of thigh without touching bone should register 165°F). Cool for 5 minutes, then remove from beer can. Cut down on either side of spine through large opening, thereby removing bone. Then slice remaining chicken into four pieces; two with a thigh and leg each and two with half a breast and a wing each.

4

Serving size: 1 quarter of the chicken

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