Grilled Barbecue Chicken: Great Flavors with Fruit

Grilled Barbecue Chicken: Great Flavors with Fruit   Grilled Barbecue Chicken: Great Flavors with Fruit Chicken, an easy protein to prepare, it flavors well, most people love it, and best of all, it grills up great! We explored non traditional barbecue sauces to help reduce sodium in our diet. One of our small heathy lifestyle changes has been reducing sodium in our diet. We have been able to keep our sodium to less than 500mg daily to support my mom and her salt sensitivity. Once you eliminate most salt, you really never miss it! We now create our sauces for the grill by starting with some fruit, peaches, apricots, cherries, raspberries, strawberries, fruits that will cook down a little and sweeten as they heat. We normally add pineapple to the mix. Some vinegar too. Now, when you try this, you can add molasses, garlic, onion, and spices like tarragon, dill, oregano, basil, pepper whatever your preference. Just bring your ingredients to a simmer in a small pot. Let it reduce down a bit and take your sauce out to the grill. Then, what Grill Guy ( my husband) has started doing is: grill the chicken until it's just about done, then baste the grilling chicken with the sauce using a basting brush. While on our RealW8 journey, we've searched for ways to make small healthy choices and realize that these small changes combined to create a long lasting lifestyle change for better health and wellness. Creating a tasty barbecue sauce for the grill is one small healthy choice. ——————————————– If you’d like to begin your RealW8 weight loss journey, or if you’d like to become a coach and help not only yourself, but your family and friends as well, or if you’d like to become business partners and learn how to earn money while losing weight email me at Islandgirl.a@gmail.com friend me on FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/alicia.delosreyes.hankins or Use the contact tab here on this website. I can get you started RIGHT and on your way to success!

Alicia and John's Blackberry Chicken

Alicia and John's Blackberry Chicken

Chicken Thighs-remove bone

Sauce:

Handful of Blackberries (about 1-2 Cups) 
Vinegar (about a 1/4 Cup)
1/2 Stick unsalted butter
3 packets Stevia 

Place Blackberries in pot on stove. Mash the berries with potato masher. Add vinegar, butter, stevia. Heat, low, on stove until sauce thickens. Use as baste. 

Grill de-boned chicken til 'almost done' 

Then baste with sauce last few minutes of cooking. :)

Enjoy!

AliciaInHawaii

Alicia's chicken "adobo"

Alicia's chicken "adobo"
My son swears this is technically NO adobo...
but oh well... My Lela and Lelo made it like this for 
all their lives and called it that... so it is, what it is. :)

brown chicken, and I mean BROWN it up...
with garlic in a large pot
(sometimes I have to do this in SMALL batches for it to brown up)
(I use about 8 chicken thighs for 4-5 people, and a small amount of garlic, you have to figure out to your taste)
add vinegar to taste, (for 8 chicken thighs I use about 1/4 C vinegar)
add tomato (for 8 chicken thighs I used *about* half a small tomato)
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cook down tomato until it shrivels a bit
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pour filtered fresh water over chicken until chicken is just covered

simmer with lid slightly ajar until most of the liquid is cooked off

remove lid, turn heat up, stir and brown until chicken is ... well... 'adobo-y' 

lol- This is how cooks cook... you gotta cook to your 'taste' :)

Enjoy!  
AliciaInHawaii