Alabama Chicken Recipes

SLOW COOKER ALABAMA PULLED BBQ CHICKEN

Steps:

• Spread onion out in the bottom of a slow cooker. Whisk 3/4 teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon black pepper, paprika, and poultry seasoning together in a small bowl.
• Place garlic cloves inside chicken cavity, brush chicken all over with melted butter, and sprinkle paprika mixture all over chicken. Place chicken, breast-side up, into slow cooker. Pour water into slow cooker and sprinkle liquid smoke over chicken.
• Cook on High for 1 hour. Reduce heat to Low and cook for 8 hours. Remove meat from bones, shred meat with two forks, cut onions in half, and return meat and onions to slow cooker.
• While chicken is cooking, whisk mayonnaise, cider vinegar, white sugar, remaining salt, remaining black pepper, and cayenne pepper together in a bowl until sauce is smooth. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate until flavors blend, at least 1 hour.
• Pour 2 to 3 tablespoons sauce over chicken mixture and continue cooking on Low for 1 hour.

ALABAMA WHITE BBQ SAUCE WITH CHICKEN RECIPE

Steps:

• Prep. Whisk together all the sauce ingredients in a large bowl and refrigerate in a jar for at least 2 hours, if possible, to allow the flavors to meld.
• At Big Bob Gibson's, Chris Lilly butterflies his chickens, which makes sense in a high production environment, but I prefer to quarter them so I can make sure no part is overcooked since breasts and thighs cook at a different rate. I recommend you cut the bird into quarters: Two drumstick and thigh combos, two breasts, and remove the wings from the breasts. Sprinkle liberally with salt and pepper on both sides
• Fire up. Crank up your smoker or prepare the grill for 2-zone indirect cooking. Shoot for 325°F/162.8°C in the indirect side.
• Cook. Place the chicken skin side up on the indirect side of the grill. Put a handful of wood chips, chunks, or pellets on the heat source. Use a foil packet with wood on a gas grill and on a charcoal grill put the wood right on the coals (no need to soak the wood). Just a handful of wood. Don't overdo it. Nothing will ruin chicken faster than too much smoke.
• Check the temp of each piece independently because they will cook at different rates. Place your probe in the thickest part of each chunk but don't touch the bones. The wings will finish much faster than the other parts so put them on late and be prepared to remove them early. When all parts hit about 155°F/68.3°C, flip the bird and put the skin face down on the hot side. When they reach 165°F/73.9°C, paint them generously on all sides with the sauce (at Big Bob's they dunk the birds in a vat of sauce).
• Serve. Plate the chicken and serve immediately with additional white BBQ sauce.

ALABAMA CHICKEN

Steps:

• In a large skillet saute the green pepper, celery and onion in butter until soft.
• Boil noodles in chicken broth that chicken was cooked in; drain.
• Add green olives, black olives, mushrooms and mushroom soup to the green pepper mixture; stir to mix well.
• Dump all of the ingredients into the noodles along with the chicken and velveeta cheese; stirring until cheese is melted and everything is thoroughly mixed.
• Place mixture in a 13x9 greased baking dish and top with crushed crackers.
• Bake at 300 degrees 45 minutes to 1 hour.
• Can be prepared a day in advance and refrigerated; covered.
• If making in advance add the cracker topping just before baking.

ALABAMA CHICKEN

Steps:

• Cook chicken in water with bay leaf and debone.
• Cook spinach noodles in the chicken broth and drain, but reserving the broth.
• Saute' green pepper, celery, and onion in melted margarine/butter until tender.
• Add cubed Velvetta and stir until melted.
• Next add green olives, mushrooms, cream of mushroom soup, and chicken.
• Blend sauce in cooked spinach noodles and place in slightly greased casserole.
• You may add more broth if needed.
• Top with cracker crumbs and dot with butter and bake 350 for 45 min.

GRILLED CHICKEN WITH ALABAMA WHITE BBQ SAUCE

Steps:

• Mix the sugar, salt and 3 quarts (12 cups) water together in a large plastic or stainless steel vessel. Add the chicken quarters to the mixture and let brine, refrigerated, for at least 2 hours.
• Set a wire rack on a baking sheet. Remove the chicken from the brine, pat dry with paper towels and then set on the wire rack for at least 1 hour at room temperature, though it is ideal to do this step overnight in the refrigerator. (If you decide to refrigerate it overnight, be sure to bring the chicken to room temperature for about an hour before grilling.)
• Heat a grill to medium heat (about 350 degrees F). In a large bowl, toss the chicken with the cornstarch and vegetable oil.
• Grill the chicken skin-side down for 15 minutes, keeping an eye on it to make sure the skin doesn't burn. Flip the chicken and cook until it reaches an internal temperature of 165 degrees F, about 20 minutes. Remove and let rest for at least 10 minutes. Serve with Alabama White BBQ Sauce.
• Stir together the mayonnaise, vinegar, horseradish, mustard and pepper in a medium bowl. Season with salt. Serve with grilled chicken.

SMOKY DRY-RUBBED GRILLED CHICKEN WITH ALABAMA WHITE SAUCE

Steps:

• For the dry-rubbed grilled chicken: Remove the backbone from the chicken. Cut the chicken through the breastbone into two halves. Stir together the House Seasoning, brown sugar, oregano, paprika, parsley and a couple of pinches of salt in a bowl. Rub under the skin and all over the chicken halves.
• Prepare a grill for direct and indirect cooking: Heat one side of the grill to medium heat. Leave the other side unlit.
• Place the chicken skin-up on the grates on the unlit side of the grill. Grill, with the lid closed, until the skin begins to brown, about 45 minutes. Transfer the chicken to the lit side of the grill, starting skin-up, and cook until the chicken is done and a meat thermometer registers 165 degrees F when inserted in the thickest portion of the thigh (avoiding bone), 12 to 15 minutes on each side.
• For the Alabama white sauce: Stir together the mayonnaise, brown sugar, vinegar, Dijon mustard, horseradish, hot sauce, dry mustard, lemon juice, and salt and pepper to taste in a medium bowl.
• Transfer the chicken to a serving platter. Pour the sauce over the chicken and serve immediately.
• Stir together the garlic powder, onion powder, paprika, salt and pepper in a small bowl. Store in an airtight container at room temperature.