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Top 10 Chicken Recipes

The Most Popular and Best Chicken Recipes at Barbecue & Grilling

By Derrick Riches, About.com

There are a lot of ways to cook chicken. The grill (or smoker) makes any cut of chicken better. From Beer Can Chicken to Rotisserie to Chicken Wings, there are millions of ways of making the most of your next chicken dish. These ten recipe are the most popular I have and represent a wide variety of great ways to grill or smoke chicken.

1. Beer in the Butt Chicken

This is the classic beer in the butt chicken recipe, developed by a couple of guys with too many beer cans and not enough pans. This chicken is moist and flavorful. About the best way there is to cook a chicken. This recipe uses a smoker to slow roast the chicken with lots of smoky flavor.

2. Take Out Style Rotisserie Chicken

Love that rotisserie chicken you get at the store? Well this is even better because you make it fresh, season it to your liking, and you get to watch it cook. Maybe I should call it "Better Than Take Out Style Rotisserie Chicken".

3. Peruvian Roasted Chicken

This great rotisserie chicken recipe became hugely popular along the East Coast of the United States a few years back. Know as Super Chicken, El Pollo Rico, or Peruvian Chicken this is a tasty way to make a bird with enough flavor to satisfy anyone, but mild enough for everyone.

4. Spit Roasted Chicken

The bacon and the butter help to keep this rotisserie chicken moist and give it an old world fire roasted taste. This is as traditional as it gets when it comes to rotisserie chicken.

5. Crock-Pot Pulled Chicken Sandwiches

This is a simple solution to making barbecue chicken sandwiches and popular alternative to pulled pork. Because it's prepared in a slow cooker instead of a smoker it is much easier to make.

6. Chicken Quesadillas

Grill these Chicken Quesadillas on a griddle and put the lid down to hold in some of the smoke. This is a much better Quesadilla than you get off the stove.

7. Chicken and Mozzarella Panini

This is a delicious grilled chicken panini recipe that fast and easy to make. You can add or substitute any of the ingredients to suit your needs.

8. Beer Can Chicken

This basic variation of the "beer in the butt" chicken recipe combines the flavors of a great spice rub with the flavors steamed out of the beer can.

9. Chinese Chicken Wings

Like chicken wings? Try these Chinese-style wings on the barbecue grill for a little variety. Like all great chicken wings, these have a fantastic smoky flavor, but watch them closely when grilling because they cook fast.

10. Drunken Chicken

Garland Rome's beer can chicken recipe adds crab boil to the beer making this whole chicken even more tender and flavorful.

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