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Southwestern-Style Chicken


Title: Southwestern-Style Chicken
Categories: Not, Sent
Yield: 10 Servings

------------------------------------RUB------------------------------------
Grated rind of 2 lemons
4 Cloves garlic, chopped
2 ts Salt
1 ts Ground black pepper
1/4 c Packed brown sugar
1 tb Dry mustard
2 ts Cayenne

-----------------------------------CHICK-----------------------------------
2 3-lb chickens, cut in pieces

-------------------------------BASTING SAUCE-------------------------------
2 tb Dark brown sugar
2 tb Fresh lemon juice
1 ts Dry mustard
1/2 ts Cayenne
1/4 ts Salt
1/4 c Flat beer or apple cider

Prepare Rub: Combine lemon rind, garlic, salt and pepper in medium-size
bowl; mash together with back of spoon. Stir in brown sugar, mustard and
cayenne pepper.

Rub mixture into chickens. Place in single layer in 2 glass baking dishes.
Cover with plastic wrap; refrigerate 6 hours or overnight.

Prepare Basting Sauce: Combine sugar, lemon juice, dry mustard, cayenn
pepper, salt and beer in small saucepan. Simmer 4 minutes.

To bake: Heat oven to 375°. Arrnage chicken pieces in single layer in 2
baking pans. Cover.

Bake at 375° for 45 minutes or until no longer pink near bone. Heat broiler
or grill. Brush chicken with basting sauce. Broil or grill 6 inches from
heat, turning occasionally and brushing with basting sauce, for 6-8
minutes.

Recipe by: Family Circle - 6/3/97 Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #629 by The
Taillons on May 31, 1997