How to Cook Citrus Chicken Barbecue
This chicken barbecue dish has orange juice and orange zest to give your chicken barbecue with an appetizing citrus flavor.
Servings: 4 servings
Calories: 160kcal
Ingredients
- 4 chicken thighs or whole chicken
- 1/8 cup Worcestershire sauce
- 1 cup fresh orange juice
- zest of 1 orange
- 1/4 cup soy sauce
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 ketchup
- 1/4 cup melted butter
- 1 tsp. salt
- 1 tsp pepper
- sliced oranges
- barbecue sticks
Instructions
How to cook Citrus Chicken Barbecue:
- Clean and rinse whole chicken and chop to serving pieces.
- Prick the skin and meat with toothpick or barbecue sticks so that the marinade will penetrate inside.
- Combine all marinade ingredients, Worcestershire sauce, orange juice, zest of orange, soy sauce, sugar, ketchup, melted butter, salt and pepper.
- Add chicken and marinate for at least 2 hours or overnight inside the refrigerator.
- Fire up the charcoal and reserve the marinade for basting the chicken.
- Skewer the chicken alternately with the orange slices.
- Grill the chicken and baste with the marinade occasionally until cooked.
- In case you want to bake the chicken, preheat oven to 350 °F.
- Arrange chicken on a baking dish and pour the marinade over.
- Bake for 45 minutes or until chicken is done.
- Garnish with orange slices.
- To make the dipping sauce: simply mix 2 teaspoons of Worcestershire sauce with half a cup of tomato or banana ketchup.