Grilled Chicken With White Barbecue Sauce

Submitted by Tastings by CeCe

"This recipe from Cooking Light was surprisingly easy to prepare and very flavorful. I had never had a “white” barbecue sauce and was pleasantly surprised at the taste. Since grilled chicken is a summertime staple for me I will be making this sauce in a bigger batch and refrigerating in bottles. The spicy "vinegary" taste goes very well with the grilled chicken. Feel free to adjust the spices in the sauce."

 

• Ready In: 1hr 5mins
• Ingredients: 12
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• Chicken

• 4 bone-in chicken breast halves
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon onion powder
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1 teaspoon paprika
• 1 teaspoon dried chipotle powder

• Sauce

• 1⁄2 cup light mayonnaise
• 1⁄3 cup white vinegar
• 1 tablespoon fresh coarse ground black pepper
• 1⁄2 teaspoon ground red pepper
• 1 1⁄2 teaspoons fresh squeezed lemon juice
• 1 dash salt

directions

1. To prepare chicken:

2. Loosen skin from breast by inserting fingers, gently pushing between skin and meat.
3. Combine salt and next 4 ingredients (salt through chipotle chili powder). Rub mixture under loosened skin.
4. Grill chicken on each side over direct heat for 5 minutes or until browned.
5. Move chicken to indirect heat and cover, cooking an additional 35 minutes or until done.
6. Discard skin.

7. To prepare sauce:

8. Combine mayonnaise and remaining ingredients, using a whisk. Serve sauce with chicken. Sauce can be made up to 1 day in advance, flavors will intensify.

Reviews

[ObxCliff]

Cece, this is ObxCliff...I used this recipe as a base for a sauce at work! I added chipotle in adobo, cilantro, garlic, used rice vinegar (not as acidic tasting) and a few other things and used it for a spiced rubbed grilled steak. It was great...good customer & server responses, too!!! Thanks for another great recipe!!!

 

[Ginger V]

LOVED this sauce - it's very different from our usual grilling sauces and marinades. We used it on a pork loin too.

 

[Stephanie S.]

We LOVE the white bbq sauce. It has a different zing that my family prefers over reg. bbq sauce. This is our new go to grilled chicken recipe from now on. Yum. Thank you for sharing with us.

 

[LizDaCook]

I really enjoyed this recipe. I had this recipe in one of my cookbooks and wanted to try it. I really like the white sauce and it's a good change from the traditional barbecue sauce.

 

[breezermom]

Don't be afraid of the mayonnaise! This white sauce is wonderful! I have been using a variation of this white sauce when we grill chicken for over 20 years. I've never added the lemon juice or the salt, but I do increase the pepper a bit to my taste. And I do half regular mayo and half light mayo. I do chicken halves, and baste with the sauce the last 30 minutes of cooking time, reserving some of the sauce to use at the table. To season the chicken, I use Cavender's Greek Seasoning, which is pretty much a mix of the spices you used. I've never posted the recipe I've used, but ran across yours and wanted to give it the 5 star rating it deserves!