Citrus BBQ Chicken in Crock Pot

"This is an easy whole chicken crock pot recipe. The combination of citrus and BBQ sauce creates and excellent glaze. Mostly a BBQ taste with a hint of citrus. You can fudge this recipe to your taste fairly easily. It is ideal to do the dry rub over night but the 3 hours works pretty well also. ***** Prep time doesn't include "marinade" time"
 
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Ready In:
6hrs 30mins
Ingredients:
14
Serves:
8-12
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ingredients

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directions

  • Prep chicken: rinse, take out gizzards and other innards; dry with a paper towel; rub oil on chicken thoroughly.
  • Put half stick of butter into chicken cavity; fill the rest of the cavity with as much onion, lemon and orange that you can (most likely won't be too much).
  • Apply dry rub all over chicken; wrap tightly in plastic wrap (two pieces in opposite directions should do the trick); drop into Ziploc bag; refrigerate 3 hours or overnight.
  • When chicken is ready, slice leftover onion, lemon & orange in thick slices; arrange in the bottom of a crock pot to form a bed.
  • Pour in chicken broth until it’s just below tops of onions and fruit.
  • Put chicken on top of onions and citrus; set cook time to high for about 6 hours; chicken broth shouldn’t be touching bottom of the chicken initially.
  • About 4 hours into the process, remove majority of liquid in the bottom of the crock using a baster; pour half of BBQ sauce on top of chicken.
  • About 5 hours into the cooking process, baste chicken with juices from the bottom of the crock pot, pour remaining BBQ sauce over chicken.
  • Baste chicken every 15 minutes with juices in the bottom of the crock.
  • After 6 hours of cooking, remove chicken from crock and remove meat from bones; drop meat back into crock pot and shred; leave crock on warm and serve.

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