To help prevent a sweetened barbecue sauce from burning, wait to apply it until the chicken is approximately halfway done. - LIFESTYLE MEDIA
OF ALL the ways to cook chicken outdoors - and there are many good ones - barbecuing tops the list. Not only is chicken ideal for grilling, it's compatible with almost any barbecue sauce you want to brush on to it.
A time-honoured choice is tomato-based barbecue sauce, a successful marriage of sweet and tangy flavours that's mild enough for children but complex enough for adult tastes.
A cool fire, plenty of smoke and indirect heat are the ingredients for succulent chicken barbecue. Even if you're tempted to slather sauce on to the chicken as soon as it hits the grill, resist, unless you like your barbecue
blackened and sooty. Sweetened sauces burn easily in the heat of grilling, so delay basting until the chicken is about halfway done. Even then, use just enough sauce to coat - not drench - each piece of chicken.
If you like extra barbecue sauce with your chicken, reserve some of the sauce and pass it at the table.
To accompany the chicken, choose the one vegetable everybody eats without prodding: sweet corn on the cob. The aromas of barbecued chicken and grilled corn wafting through the air will have diners queuing up in no time for this summertime feast.
