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[Boerseun]

Beercan chicken!

(Apparently this has been done for years, but I've only heard of it in December)

You take a nice whole chicken, and remove the giblets. Then you make a nice spice mixture of your choice. I've done a few so far, and what worked for me was simply a teaspoon of salt, teaspoon of cayenne pepper, a tablespoon rough ground black pepper, 1/2 teaspoon peri-peri powder, and 100ml peri-peri sauce. Mix well! (Wash your hands - that stuff burns like hell!)

Rub the whole chicken with the mix, inside and out.

Take a can of beer. Drink about half of it. Take another 50ml peri-peri sauce, and pour it carefully into the beercan. Take two ground cloves of garlic, and chuck it into the beercan - be careful! For some reason, garlic makes beer bubble like all hell; you might lose a bit of beer if you're not careful.

Take the chicken, and make it "sit" on the beercan, basically shoving the beercan up the chicken's butt. Park your beercan chicken in the oven at 180C for 105mins. (An hour and three quarters). Take out and let stand for about 10 minutes. Carve and enjoy!

I was a bit skeptical about this, but out came the tenderest, juiciest, most awesomest chicken I've ever eaten!

But be careful - the beercan must stand up straight with the chicken "sitting" on it. Which of course means the whole contraption will be a little top heavy.

The thing basically steams from inside and bakes from outside. Beautiful!