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Oven Baked Whole Chicken with BBQ Rub - the best of quick easy meals

This oven baked whole chicken recipe is a family favorite. If you are going to roast one chicken, you may as well roast two and, usually, you can fit two chickens into the same roasting pan. One lot of electricity, one dirty pan, but two roast chickens! Use one for this meal, and save the other for Easy Chicken Enchiladas later in the week. (Depending on the appetites of your family, you may find that you need some of the second chicken for this meal.) You can also use the carcasses for Best Chicken Soup Recipe.

The BBQ rub is a winner and the sauce gets added half-way through the cooking. This doubles as the ideal Rotisserie Chicken Rub Recipe as well.

The quantities below are for both oven baked whole chickens, so if you cook only one chicken, be sure to divide the measurements by two.

Ingredients:

2 whole chickens, giblets removed (preferably free range), each weighing about 4lbs / 1.8kg

Rub mixture:

2 teaspoons salt

4 teaspoons sugar

2 teaspoons ground ginger

2 teaspoons ground pepper

2 teaspoons English mustard powder

1 teaspoon medium curry powder

Ingredients for sauce:

4 tablespoons chutney

2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce

2 tablespoons soy sauce

1 tablespoon lemon juice

Method:

Mix together all the dry ingredients above.
Rub the mixture well into the skins of the chickens. Sit the chickens in the refrigerator for an hour.
Heat the oven to 180° C. Roast the chickens uncovered for about 30 minutes.
Mix together the ingredients for the sauce and stand them aside.
Remove the chickens from the oven and pour over the sauce making sure that you coat the whole chicken. Place the chickens back in the oven and roast for a further 40 minutes, watching that the sauce doesn't burn. (Place tin foil over the chickens if you see that the skins are getting too brown, but I don't usually find that this is necessary.)
To check whether the chickens are ready, cut a small slit between the thigh and the breast (at that joint). If the liquid that oozes out is clear, the chickens are cooked. If there is blood running out, place the chickens back in the oven.
Carve the chickens into portions and refrigerate the extra chicken for the Chicken Enchiladas later in the week.

Easy Chicken Enchiladas

Best Chicken Soup Recipe

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