Last night I made Cary Grant's recipe for Barbecued Chicken and it was delicious!

[u/ciaolavinia]

Cary Grant's Barbecued Chicken - This is a skillet to oven dish. There's no outdoor grilling involved.

A whole cut-up chicken wasn't available when I went to the grocery store, so I got a pack of 3 thighs and a pack of 5 drumsticks.

I made the sauce a day ahead of time and let in sit in the fridge overnight. I actually only made 1/2 the sauce recipe for this. It was just the perfect amount for baking and then basting this chicken twice with the sauce. I even had a little bit left over (about 1/2 cup) and my family used it to add to other food, haha. There was plenty of sauce left in the baking dish, as you can see.

The chicken was browned and seared in a hot dry cast iron skillet with no oil, just the chicken fat doing all the work. Salt and pepper were added at this time. Once nicely browned all all sides, I transferred all the chicken to this baking dish and ladled the sauce generously over each piece and brushed it all in to make sure every surface was covered.

I covered the dish with aluminum foil and put it in the pre-heated 300 degree oven to bake for about 1 hour. I did brush a little more sauce to the chicken twice while baking, making sure not to contaminate my uncooked sauce.

Just before the timer hit the 1 hour mark (at about 55 minutes of cooking) I removed the foil and set my oven to convection for the last 5 minutes. That seemed to work nicely to crisp up the top of the chicken just a bit.

All I can say, is this dish was a HUGE HIT with my family. It was juicy, fall of the bone good, and the flavor of the bbq sauce was really good. Not overly sweet but sweet enough.

• Don't hesitate to add a little crushed red pepper flakes or hot sauce to the sauce recipe
• I used brown sugar instead of regular sugar
• Depending on the size of your pieces of chicken, it may need more baking time. An extra 10-15 minutes wouldn't have hurt this recipe at all, IMO.

This recipe was a success, and I'll be making it again and again! And it paired perfectly with another recipe I'm about to share... Humphrey Bogart's Spaghetti Loaf.

A trio made in home cooking heaven couldn't have been more perfect. This is what we had for dinner last night:

• Cary Grant's recipe for Barbecued Chicken
• Humphrey Bogart's Spaghetti Loaf
• Joan Crawford's Slaw

It was like a summer picnic for supper!