How to Make Delicious Chicken Cooked In Beer

Chicken Cooked In Beer. Novelty aside, beer can chicken is the best, easiest way to cook a whole chicken on the grill without any special equipment. The beer from the can steams the chicken, resulting in a perfectly-cooked whole chicken — burnished to mahogany perfection — no flipping, rotisserie, or special pan required. A simple beer marinade is the foundation for this saute of chicken and mushrooms.

Best served with hot cooked pasta. This Beer Can Chicken is incredibly delicious, juicy and moist. This chicken is perfectly seasoned with herbs and spices and baked to a crispy perfection. You can have Chicken Cooked In Beer using 18 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Chicken Cooked In Beer

1. It's 5 of garlic cloves.
2. It's 8 of chicken pieces.
3. Prepare 1 tsp of garlic salt.
4. You need 1 tsp of freshly ground black pepper.
5. You need 1 large of onion, chopped.
6. You need 4 of carrots, sliced.
7. Prepare 1 pinch of salt.
8. It's 1 of tomato can.
9. You need 1 tbsp of tomato paste.
10. Prepare 3 of bay leaves.
11. You need 50 ml of olive oil, extra virgin.
12. You need 1 tbsp of prepared mustard.
13. Prepare 1/2 tsp of hot paprika or hot chilli.
14. You need 2 cup of frozen peas.
15. It's 50 grams of sliced chorizo.
16. It's 1 handful of Coriander or parsley, chopped.
17. It's 1 bottle of beer (I used carlsberg export)..
18. You need 50 ml of water.

The steam from the beer creates an unbelievably moist chicken, you'll love it from the very first bite. A whole chicken cooked upright with a can of beer as its base. As opposed to "beer can chicken", this chicken soaks in a beer brine for a long time before cooking, giving it a very earthy, beery taste. Beer can chicken (also known as chicken on a throne, beer butt chicken, Coq au can, dancing chicken and drunken chicken) is a barbecued chicken dish and method of indirect grilling using a partially-filled can of beer that is placed in the chicken's cavity prior to cooking.

Chicken Cooked In Beer step by step

1. Marinade the chicken pieces with garlic salt, 2 chopped garlic cloves, black pepper and paprika at least an hour before cooking..
2. Heat the olive oil in a pan with the chorizo slices until the chorizo is cooked and crispy..
3. Remove the chorizo from the pan when its cooked..
4. Add the onion, 3 chopped garlic and bay leave and cook until onion has softened..
5. Over a medium heat add the chicken pieces, paste, mustard, tomato can, half of the beer and carrots. Simmer for about 15 minutes. Stirring occasionally..
6. Add the peas and cook for another 10 minutes..
7. Add the rest of the beer and water. And stir..
8. Turn the heat up slightly to reduce the sauce until it has thickened. About a further 10-15 minutes or so..
9. Add the chopped coriander or parsley about 5 minutes before the heat is turned off..
10. Check seasoning is good for you..
11. Crumble the cripsy chorizo into the pan once heat is off..
12. Let it rest for 10 minutes before serving..

Sautéing the Chicken in beer makes for some moist chicken. Sautéing the Chicken in beer makes for some moist chicken. Wish I could take credit, but the recipe comes from Food Network's Iron Chef Morimoto. But Beer Can Chicken remains a gimmick, an inferior cooking technique, a waste of good beer, and it is potentially hazardous (click to Tweet this). Think about this: You've never seen a fine dining restaurant serve Beer Can Chicken, have you?