Good Lord, That's Good BBQ Chicken!

In my continued effort to 1) cook more and 2) eat less carbs, I decided to start off this week with some BBQ. The thing is, every BBQ sauce I could find was loaded with sugar. After spending what felt like hours in the condiment aisle at Kroger, I finally ran across a brand called Stubb's. It looked interesting and only had six grams of carbohydrates. At $3.29, it seemed like a decent choice.

Keeping in mind that I do not usually cook, so this may be old news for many of you, but there is a recipe floating around that involves putting ketchup, Coke, and some type of meat in a crock pot and letting it simmer for a few hours. The result is easy, inexpensive BBQ. I combined a few variations of this:



Into my crock pot went:

- 1 can of Diet Coke (that was hard for me, to waste a whole Diet Coke)

- Half a jar of Stubb's Original Bar-B-Q Sauce

- 3 boneless chicken breasts that had been sprinkled with Morton's Low Sodium Season All Seasoned Salt


I cooked it on high for about three hours (until it was done but not yet falling apart), took it out and cut it into smaller pieces, and cooked it for another hour. When I got it out, I wasn't totally satisfied. While it tasted okay, it was still a little chunky for barbecue. I took a piece out and started shredding it with a fork, but then I had an idea.

This is where I think I'm a genius, but really, it's probably something people have been doing for decades. I took out my little electric hand mixer, stuck it in the crock pot and turned it on high. I left it in there for a few minutes and the results were beautiful. (Okay, so my iPhone doesn't make it look too appetizing, but I can assure you it looks better in real life.)



I put a colander on top of a mixing bowl and dumped the contents in. I discarded about 3/4 of the sauce and put the meat back in the rest of it to let it soak and cool down. When I finally tasted it, my first words were "Good Lord, that's good chicken!" Then I realized I live alone, so I stopped talking to myself.

My original plans had been to make a sandwich out of it (I bought some very, very low-carb bread last week), but this chicken was so good it didn't need it. And here's where you might be slightly grossed out, but I usually put ketchup on, well, just about everything, but it didn't need that either. I dished some out onto my plate, got myself a yummy Claussen pickle and had one of the best low-carb lunches I've ever cooked.

Anyway, I was pretty proud of myself, so I thought I'd share. The good thing about being single is that I'll have have enough to last the next few days. The downside is that there is no one around to taste my magnificent work of art. Maybe that should be one of my next goals?