Apple Juice Butt Chicken

Total Time: 2 hrs 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 2 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 broiler-fryer chicken
• 16 ounces apple juice
• 1 teaspoon orange zest
• 1 teaspoon poultry seasoning
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 teaspoon thyme leaves
• 1 teaspoon rosemary
• 1 orange
• extra virgin olive oil

Recipe

• 1 take a beer or soft drink can and drink it. wash and fill with 8 ounces of the applejuice.
• 2 combine all the spices except the bay leaf and put half of the spices in the can, plus the bay leaf. save the rest of the spices for basting.
• 3 take a large pan 9x13 is fine, and pour 1 cup of applejuice in pan. slice up an orange and put in pan also.
• 4 place chicken on can, then in the pan and put on the grill. if using a gas grill, heat the grill to 350 and then turn the middle burner off, so the chicken will not burn.
• 5 baste the chicken every half hour with extra virgen olive oil and the rest of the spice mix.
• 6 chicken will be done in 2 hours or until tempreture reaches 165 degrees.