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Easy Grilled Chicken | Can't Stay Out of the Kitchen | Easy & delicious 3-ingredient #chicken entree with a homemade #BBQ sauce. #glutenfree

Easy Grilled Chicken

Teresa Ambra
Easy Grilled Chicken is terrific for backyard barbecues and grilling out with friends. This quick and easy 3-ingredient recipe is one of our favorites and doubly delicious when you use your favorite homemade or store-purchased barbecue sauce. Gluten free.
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Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
Total Time 50 minutes
Course Chicken Main Dish
Cuisine Southern
Servings 4
Calories 252 kcal

Equipment

  • 1 gas or electric grill
  • measuring spoons
  • measuring cups
  • 1 pastry brush

Ingredients
  

  • 4 Skinless chicken pieces: breasts or thighs
  • 1 to 2 tsp. Seasoning salt such as Accent, Lawry's or Nature's Seasonings
  • 1 cup Homemade Kansas City Style Barbecue Sauce or other gluten free BBQ sauce; if not gluten intolerant, use Sweet Baby Ray’s Honey BBQ Sauce or KC Masterpiece Original BBQ Sauce

Instructions
 

  • Season both sides of chicken pieces with seasoning.
  • Cook on preheated grill at about 350° until one side starts to brown.
  • Turn chicken pieces over and cook until done.
  • Baste top of chicken pieces with Homemade Kansas City Style Barbecue Sauce or your favorite BBQ sauce.
  • At this point watch chicken pieces closely for burning as the sauce tends to want to burn.
  • You may need to turn down the grill.
  • It takes 30-45 minutes to cook bone-in chicken to proper internal temperature.
  • Check with meat thermometer.
  • Baste chicken pieces with more sauce before removing them from the grill.
  • Serve hot.

Notes

NOTE: If you want to keep this recipe gluten free, you'll have to locate a BBQ sauce without gluten at a specialty store like Trader Joe's, Whole Foods Market or Sprouts. Or use a homemade recipe.
 
NOTE: Any kind of BBQ sauce will work including homemade recipes.
 
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Nutrition

Calories: 252kcalCarbohydrates: 29gProtein: 25gFat: 3gSaturated Fat: 1gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 0.01gCholesterol: 72mgSodium: 1345mgPotassium: 584mgFiber: 1gSugar: 24gVitamin A: 194IUVitamin C: 2mgCalcium: 30mgIron: 1mg
Keyword barbecued chicken, chicken, main dish
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