Baked BBQ Chicken

2 lbs chicken (on bone  – legs, thighs, wings, breasts, or boneless breasts – whatever you have)
garlic pepper (see notes below)
6 oz (3/4 cup) high quality BBQ-sauce

For skinless breasts or cutlets:

• Place chicken in a 9×13 pyrex and sprinkle both sides generously with garlic pepper.
• Coat both sides of the chicken with BBQ sauce (simply pour into the pyrex and toss).
• Bake in the oven at 375 for 20 – 30 mins until cooked through.

For bone in / skin on chicken parts:

• Melt some butter in a large skillet.
• Add chicken parts and roll in melted butter to coat on all sides.
• Sprinkle with garlic pepper on both sides.
• Brown chicken on both sides (roughly 5 – 7 minutes per side).
• Add BBQ sauce and toss to coat.
• Bake in the oven at 375 for about 30 mins.

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SIDE NOTES:

~  Easy and Good!  Prepare one or two simple side dishes while the chicken is cooking and enjoy  =)

~  This time, I had boneless chicken strips on hand, so that’s what I used.  With smaller chicken pieces like this, baking for 20 – 25 minutes is all that’s needed.  If you have larger cutlets or a whole cut up chicken, you will likely need a longer bake time – but begin checking at 25 minutes to avoid drying out the chicken.

~  For the garlic pepper, simply mix together 4 tsps garlic powder, 2 tsps black pepper, and 1/2 TBSP dried parsley flakes, and store in an empty spice shaker.

~  If you’d like to try a HOMEMADE BBQ SAUCE, simply melt the coconut oil (or butter or ghee) and mix together all of the following ingredients (this yields the exact amount needed for this recipe – 3/4 cup):

• 1/4 cup high quality ketchup
• 3 TBSP natural sugar of choice (or 18 drops liquid stevia)
• 2 TBSP apple cider vinegar
• 2 TBSP coconut oil, butter, or ghee, melted
• 1 TBSP lemon juice
• 1/2 TBSP Worcestershire sauce
• 1 to 1 & 1/2 tsps pure salt (to taste)
• 1 tsp high quality mustard
• 1 tsp chili powder
• 1 tsp paprika
• 1/2 tsp red pepper flakes

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