BBQ Chicken with Cherry Chipotle BBQ Sauce

BBQ Chicken is made with a slightly sweet, slightly spicy cherry chipotle BBQ sauce! This is a fabulous way to enjoy grilled chicken!

I love this time of year. The summer is a clean slate, but we have our favorite activities and our “must do” list.

We go to the pool at least 3 days/nights a week. We always find time for the butterfly show at the conservatory. Trips to the zoo, the museum and the aquarium (great for especially hot days). We’ll go see a MLB game or two. The hot air balloon glow and fireworks are a must for my birthday! A trip to the beach is new this year and highly anticipated. Cook outs with friends and family, lazy summer evenings catching lightening bugs and eating S’mores around the fire pit.

There will be trips to the driving range, backyard kickball games, and time spent just swinging on the swings. We’ll visit our favorite parks and get prizes at the library for our summer reading. Perhaps we’ll make to an amusement park or water park this year. And I hope to treat the kids to a movie at the drive-in theater this summer! Everyone should have that experience! Whatever the summer brings, it will be fun, and it will be about family. We will be making memories and starting traditions I hope our kids will share with their own someday.

For now, I will only focus only on Memorial Day weekend. I’m thinking I’ll be grilling chicken with this smokey sweet barbecue sauce. The sweet cherries hit you first, but then gradually the heat from the chipotle peppers tickles the back of your throat. The flavors compliment each other perfectly! Serve this chicken with a loaded vegetable pasta salad, Grilled Broccoli, Homemade Mac and Cheese or a simple red potato salad! Here’s to summer!

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Yield: 4

BBQ Chicken with Cherry Chipotle BBQ Sauce

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Grilled chicken covered in a smokey sweet bbq sauce.

Prep Time 5 minutes

Cook Time 40 minutes

Total Time 45 minutes

Ingredients

Cherry Chipotle BBQ sauce

• 2 Tbs olive oil
• 3 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 cup ketchup
• 1 1/2 cups tart pie cherries, roughly chopped
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1/4 cup molasses
• 1/4 cup cider vinegar
• 1 Tbs Worcestershire sauce
• 1 tsp liquid smoke
• 1/2 tsp Chipotle Powder
• zest of 1 orange
• 4 chicken breasts

Instructions

1. Mix all ingredients for sauce in a medium sauce pan. Simmer over medium low heat 20 minutes until the sauce begins to thicken.
2. To grill chicken, season chicken with salt and pepper. Grill on medium heat about 8 minutes per side or until juices run clear. Baste with bbq sauce in last two minutes of grill, turning over as you go.
3. Serve with additional sauce on the side.
4. Store leftover bbq sauce in the refrigerator.

Nutrition Information

Yield

4

Serving Size

1
Amount Per Serving Calories 752Total Fat 22gSaturated Fat 9gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 11gCholesterol 128mgSodium 774mgCarbohydrates 101gFiber 3gSugar 79gProtein 41g

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