Citrus Barbeque Pulled Chicken Recipe

barbecue sauce

🥗Healthier: homemade barbecue sauce

💰Cheaper: ketchup + vinegar

Homemade sauce can reduce sugar and preservatives.

chicken thighs

🥗Healthier: chicken breast

💰Cheaper: bone-in chicken

Breast is leaner, while bone-in is often cheaper.

Marinate chicken breast halves with olive oil, paprika, garlic powder, salt, and pepper for 15 minutes.

Preheat the oven to 350°F.

Place marinated chicken on a baking sheet lined with foil and sprayed with non-stick spray.

Bake chicken for 25 minutes.

Sauté diced bacon until it starts to get crispy.

Add diced onion and minced garlic to the pan and sauté until softened and bacon is crisp.

Drain excess grease from the pan.

Add applesauce, ketchup, steak sauce, orange marmalade, brown sugar, orange juice and zest, water, cider vinegar, paprika, sambal sauce, salt, and pepper to the pan and stir to combine.

Simmer sauce for 15-20 minutes.

Let the baked chicken rest for 10 minutes, then shred into strips.

Add shredded chicken to the sauce and simmer together for 5 minutes.

Toast buns if desired and serve chicken on buns.

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