Bacon Bourbon BBQ Chicken – THE BEST chicken EVER! Chicken coated in a BBQ Bacon paste and brushed with Bourbon BBQ sauce. Chicken, bacon, bourbon, bbq sauce, salt, garlic powder, onion powder, pepper, paprika, brown sugar. We made this twice in one week it was SO good. Even our picky eaters asked for seconds! Make this!! #grilling #chicken #grilledchicken #bacon
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Pin This RecipeThis Bacon Bourbon BBQ Chicken recipe came from Plain Chicken reader, Jennifer. She emailed it to me back in January and we’ve been making it ever since! Y’all! This chicken is SOOOO good! This recipe is unique because chicken is coated in BACON! You rub a BBQ bacon paste on all the chicken and throw it on the grill. Before you take it off the grill, brush it with an easy Bourbon BBQ Sauce.
The chicken is coated in a BBQ Bacon paste. To make the paste you put RAW bacon and seasonings in the food processor and let it process into a paste. Spread that paste all over the chicken and then place it on the grill. You can do this ahead of time if you prefer. You can make the paste and refrigerate it or make the paste and coat the chicken and then refrigerate.
We could not stop raving about this chicken. We ended up making it twice in a week. It tasted fantastic! We ate it for lunch and leftover for dinner. I even ate some of the leftovers in a wrap for lunch one day. Add this to your menu ASAP!
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Bacon Bourbon BBQ Chicken
Ingredients:
- 6 slices bacon, uncooked and chopped
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp onion powder
- 1 tsp pepper
- 2 Tbsp paprika
- 3 Tbsp brown sugar
- 2 to 3 pounds chicken (breasts, tenders, or thighs)
- 1 cup prepared BBQ sauce
- ¼ cup bourbon
Instructions:
- In a food processor, combine uncooked bacon, salt, garlic powder, onion powder, pepper, paprika, and brown sugar. Pulse until smooth.
- Put chicken in a bowl or dish and rub with bacon paste until well coated.
- Whisk together BBQ sauce and bourbon.
- Grill chicken until done – 12 to 15 minutes. Brush chicken on both sides with BBQ sauce mixture and cook an additional minute.
- Serve with remaining BBQ sauce.
Notes:
My favorite BBQ sauces are G. Hughes, Sweet Baby Rays, Stubbs, and Williamson Brothers.
C-horse & Unknown there is no bacon in the BBQ sauce. It is only in the spice mixture that you put on the chicken before cooking it, the only thing that is added to the sauce would be the bourbon.
Now, I do have a question for Stephanie. I do not have any bourbon or hard liquor in my house, is there something that I could sub for the bourbon?
You can leave out the bourbon and it will be fine. Maybe substitute some apple juice for the bourbon?
Recipe says to serve with remaining BBQ sauce, but the bacon in the BBQ is uncooked. Is that a problem from the perspective of eating raw pork products? Or are you supposed to heat up the leftover BBQ sauce?
Um, no. The remaining BBQ sauce is the BBQ sauce that is combined with the bourbon. It is totally fine to serve with the chicken.
I think I would cook it anyway,
That makes no sense, but it is your kitchen.
Just so you understand, the bacon mixture is only on the chicken that is being cooked. The leftover BBQ sauce is the BBQ sauce that is mixed with bourbon. There is raw pork in bottled BBQ sauce and bourbon.
No bacon is in the BBQ sauce. If you have leftover paste, combine it with the BBQ sauce and bourbon and bring to a boil and let simmer for 8-10 min. If that does not do it for you I'm out of suggestions and you may need another recipe to try.