Recipe: Perfect Carolina Style BBQ Chicken

Carolina Style BBQ Chicken. In a small bowl, mix the first six ingredients. You could also make the sauce in advance, I like to mix up a big batch and store it in the fridge for barbecue chicken emergencies. This Carolina Style BBQ Chicken recipe couldn't be simpler to make.

Local pride is on the line. Sauce-wise, I'm mostly stateless and am just as happy with North Carolina-style vinegar sauce as I am with a Kansas City sauce made with tomatoes and molasses. But when it comes to grilled chicken, nothing feels as perfect as the tang of a mustard-based South Carolina-style barbecue sauce. You can have Carolina Style BBQ Chicken using 8 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Carolina Style BBQ Chicken

1. Prepare 2 lbs of chicken.
2. It's 3/4 cup of brown sugar.
3. It's 1/2 cup of Apple cider vinegar.
4. You need 1/4 cup of franks hot sauce.
5. It's 2 Tbsp. of Oil.
6. It's 2 Tbsp. of Worcestershire Sauce.
7. You need 1/2 tsp of salt.
8. It's 1/4 tsp of pepper.

MAKE the Carolina-Style Barbecue Sauce: Combine vinegar, brown sugar, ketchup, mustard, garlic, onion powder and salt in medium saucepan. Bring mixture to a boil, stirring often. Lock lid and close the pressure-release valve. To assemble pulled chicken sandwiches, place a fist-sized portion of pulled chicken on a hamburger bun or hard roll.

Carolina Style BBQ Chicken step by step

1. Combine 1/2 cup brown sugar, mustard, vinegar, hot sauce, oil, Worcestershire sauce, salt & pepper -- mix well -- pour 1 cup of mix over the chicken in a ziplock bag -- refrigerate & marinate!.
2. Put remaining mix in sauce pan -- add 1/4 cup brown sugar -- simmer for 5 mins. stirring often (reserve for serving sauce).
3. Grill over high heat 10-15 minutes -- baste once with marinade (do not baste during last 5 minutes).
4. Serve chicken with the reserved sauce & enjoy!!.

Top it with coleslaw or serve coleslaw on the side. You can also use this barbecue sauce when making the coleslaw, turning it into Carolina red slaw. Or, if you'd just love to try this North Carolina Barbecue recipe in your Instant Pot, instead of your slow cooker, you'll want to try our Carolina-Style Instant Pot Shredded BBQ Chicken Sandwiches. And, for an entirely different (but equally scrumptious!) barbecue chicken experience, check out our Easy, Cheesy BBQ Chicken Wraps. This means that it is vinegar and mustard based, as opposed to the ketchup and molasses based sauces of the mid and southwest.