An oven baked barbecue chicken casserole will banish the winter blues. This easy BBQ recipe comes with what’s best described as the most traditional barbecue sauce.
Ingredients:-
8 chicken pieces
50g or 2oz butter
1 tablespoon oil
1 lemon sliced
For the sauce
1 onion chopped
2 tablespoons oil
50g or 2oz light brown sugar
1 heaped teaspoon English mustard
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
2 tablespoons tomato purée
300ml or ½ pint water
Freshly ground salt and pepper
Method:-
Pre-heat the oven to 180°C, 350°F or gas mark 4.
Melt the butter and oil together in a frying pan and pop the chicken in to seal it. Turn regularly for about 10 minutes until the skin is brown.
For the barbecue sauce, heat the oil in a saucepan and fry the onions for 3-4 minutes until translucent. Stir in the tomato purée and add the remainder of the ingredients, bring to the boil and simmer for 10 minutes.
Place the chicken in a casserole dish and throw the lemon slices on top. Pour the barbecue sauce over the chicken, cover and slam it in the oven for an hour and job done!
TIP - It’s important to give the tomato purée time to mix into the onions before adding the remainder of the barbecue sauce ingredients because this way you don’t end up with red lumps in your sauce.