How To Make Barbecue Chicken For Toddlers
Description
Sure, a soft pulled chicken in barbecue sauce is great, but what if you and your child want barbecue chicken flavor AND crispy skin? And what if you want to give your child–and yourself–some practice eating whole pieces of chicken? We got you, and it doesn’t get any easier. Dry spice rub. Air fryer cooking. You’ll have this bad boy on the table within 25 minutes of starting dinner.
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Ingredients
Instructions
Prep
- Trim any excess skin and/or fat from the chicken pieces. With a fork or knife, poke small holes all around the skin side of each piece.
- Add the paprika, cumin, garlic, salt, sugar, and black pepper to a small bowl; sift to ensure they are mixed.
- Sprinkle the spice mixture all over the top of the chicken pieces.
Cook
- Cook for 18-20 minutes in an Air Fryer set to 375. Let chicken rest 3-5 minutes before handling. (Can also cook in your oven for 30-40 minutes.)
Serve
If your child is ready to hold and eat whole pieces of chicken, just hit it with a squirt of lemon and tell him or her where to bite in; if not–and, at least as of the time we developed this recipe, our child is one of those kids–cut from the center of a chicken piece, aiming to get a couple of relatively uniform bites of chicken with a little skin. Serve with barbecue sauce, as needed.
Adapt
Like the idea of the chicken but aren’t sure your child will like the taste? Lots of different routes you can take here: substitute the paprika for garam masala and add a few pinches of each ginger turmeric and you’ve got chicken tikka; cut down the cumin and add some lemon zest and you’ve got lemon pepper; remove the cumin and add onion powder and some peanut dust from the bottom of a jar of peanuts and you’ve got suya.
