Diamond Crystal Brands / Beer Can Chicken with Chipotle Cream Gravy

Beer Can Chicken with Chipotle Cream Gravy
Serving Size
- 8 ½ chicken portions with 4 oz gravy
Ingredients
- Whole Chicken fryers
- Southwestern Dry Rub
- Onions, sliced
- Chipotle Peppers, canned in adobo sauce
- Beer (A Mexican Lager like Corona or Dos Equis works)
- Chef’s Companion Country Gravy Mix, Dry
- Adobo sauce from canned chipotle
Measurement
Meas.
- 4
- ½ Cup
- 2
- 8
- 1 Qt
- 6 oz
- 1 oz
Instructions
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1:Pre-heat oven to 450F
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2:Cut out backbone of chicken and press down so you have a whole chicken, splayed.
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3:Rub Chicken evenly with dry rub.
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4:Put sliced onions in bottom of a hotel pan large enough to hold chickens (may have to split between 2 pans) top onions with beer, then lay chickens in single layer
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5:Bake chickens in oven for 15 minutes, to brown, then turn down oven to 350 cover with foil and bake until internal temp is 160F
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6:Remove chickens from pan and wrap in foil to carry over cooking to 165F
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7:Pour liquid in bowl and let sit five minutes for fat to rise to the top. Remove fat.
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8:Add enough water or chicken stock to make 1 quart of liquid and bring to 180-200F
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9:With wire whisk, whisk in Chef’s Companion Country Gravy, let simmer until thickened 10 minutes and whisk in the rest of adobo sauce.
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10:Hold gravy for service and serve with ½ roasted chicken.