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Santa Maria Style Chicken Barbecue
Santa Maria Style Chicken Barbecue Fundraiser held May 17, 2008
If you'd like to host a BBQ Chicken fundraiser event for a large group, here's some good information on how to organize and prepare for the event, including a BBQ Chicken recipe to serve a large group of 800 people.
Here's one of the best Santa Maria Style Chicken BBQ fundraising teams in Santa Maria! The Coastal Xtreme Girls 14U were fund raising with the world's best Santa Maria Style chicken barbecue! The BBQ crew was happy to share their Santa Maria style BBQ chicken fundraising recipes and tips for the best seasonings and grilling advice! I talked with Darrell Cosand and his fundraising barbecue team, and they shared their recipe for a large barbecue fundraising event for the best Santa Maria style chicken barbecue! I tried the barbecue chicken, and it was outstanding!
That's my son Scot in the picture below, holding out the chicken barbeque dinner, which included 1/2 grilled chicken, garlic bread, salad, chile beans, and fire grilled corn on the cob - an excellent fundraising bbq meal! Read on for their large group event fundraising barbecue chicken recipes for a charity fundraising BBQ event!
Best Santa Maria Style BBQ Chicken Dinner
Scot is holding the best Santa Maria Style Chicken Barbecue Dinner!
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Santa Maria Style Chicken BBQ
Doesn't this Santa Maria Style BBQ Chicken Look Great! Here's a closer look. The color is perfect, the juices are sealed in, the meat is tender, and it smells great!
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Here's the grilled corn on the cob! Easy to barbecue!
Just soak the corn on the cob in a tub of water to saturate it before you put it on the barbecue grill. The corn will steam right in the husk. The flavor is great, the texture is firm, perfectly crisp! I chose the corn unbuttered, and it was great! What a great addition to a summer barbecue, and it's simple to prepare! After you pull the corn off the barbecue grill, pull off the husks and wrap the corn in foil to stay hot.
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The Happy Santa Maria Style BBQ Team
Here's the smiling barbecue crew, I interviewed Darrell Cosand, second from the left, for his Santa Maria Style Chicken BBQ recipe and tips on seasoning.
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The Secret to Great BBQ Chicken Santa Maria Style
Here's the secret to excellent grilled Santa Maria Style BBQ Chicken. Get a huge pot ready, place a steamer insert in the bottom of the pot to keep the chicken off the bottom of the pot. Pour in a couple of bottles of beer to get the steam going. Place the pot over the hot red oak coals. Now you're ready! When the chicken is almost done, pull it off the grill, and place it in the large steamer pots for another 1/2 hour to 2 hours! It's super tender, the juices are sealed in, and the flavor can't be beat! This is the secret to excellent Santa Maria Style Barbequed chicken!
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Here's the Barbecue setup for Santa Maria Style Grilling
Here's the grill for the chicken. Santa Maria Style barbecue, whether tri tip or chicken, is cooked the same way. The grill is adjustable. In this picture the bbq grill is very high, because the chicken is almost done, and the two chicken steamer pots are about full. So the team is waiting to sell a few dozen bbq chicken dinners that they'll remove from the pot, then the chickens on the grill will go into the pot! They're just staying warm here. The bbq is fueled by red oak logs. Red oak burns down to coals, not ashes, and makes a great fuel, and a wonderful aroma.
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Recipe for Santa Maria Style Barbecued Chicken
Wondering how to plan for a large bbq chicken fundraiser? Well here's how this team shopped!
Recipe for Santa Maria Style BBQ Chicken
- 800 chicken halves
- 20 oz. garlic salt
- 10 oz. Lawry's seasoned salt (no MSG)
- 5 oz pepper
- onion salt (they didn't use this today, but Darrell said he does use it sometimes....)
- 6 tall neck beers (for the steamer pots.... buy more to drink!)
- 78 loaves bread
- corn on the cob (they sold it separately, so probably didn't buy 400!)
- butter (probably several pounds, didn't ask, sorry)
- oil (just about any vegetable oil)
Mix the seasonings and cover the chickens. Place them on the hot grill, and spray with a mist of the cooking oil. The chickens need to be turned frequently. You want to aim for a golden color, not brown. Cooking time is about 1 hour and 10 minutes. Have a couple of huge pots ready to go. Pour a couple of beers in each pot to get the steam going, and place a steamer trivet in the bottom of each pot to keep the chicken out of the liquid. Take the bbq chicken off the grill when it's almost done, and place it in the hot steamer pot, which is also over the coals. Cover with a lid, and cook the Santa Maria style bbq chicken in the steam for an additional 1/2 hour. You can leave it in the pot for up to 1 1/2 hours. With a large amount of chicken being cooked, it's probably easier to use 2 pots, so you can have a regular flow to the serving line from the chicken that has been in the pots for over 1/2 hour, with one pot reserved for the chicken just being removed from the grill. If the pots are full, just raise the barbecue grill up high to slow the cooking of the almost done chicken on the grill, to allow you to sell some of the chicken that's ready to go in the steamer pots.
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