Brown Sugar and Cracked Pepper Chicken

This recipe is so ridiculously easy, there isn't much to write.  It's a simple three ingredient recipe, but one that you'll remember for a long time.  The brown sugar caramelizes and gives it a crispy sweet and savory skin and the cracked pepper brings out the flavors. What a combination!  The chicken has been slow roasted so the inside is moist and tender and juicy and out of this world good!

Brown Sugar Cracked Pepper Chicken 
(aka Three Ingredient Chicken)

3-4 pound chicken cut up

3 tablespoons light brown sugar 

2 tablespoons of cracked pepper blend ( I use Wegman's Blend)

Preheat oven to 450 degrees. 

Rinse and pat dry chicken pieces.  Prepare a baking sheet by lining it with aluminum foil or a silicon mat. The sugar mixture is very sticky and will ruin your pan without a lining.

Prepare your rub by mixing the brown sugar and cracked pepper together in a small bowl. Dredge chicken in sugar/pepper mixture and pat the seasoning down well so that it sticks to the chicken.

 

 

 

Put chicken in oven and bake at 450 for the first 10 minutes.  Then turn down the heat to 350 degrees and continue baking for about 45 minutes or until chicken is crispy and golden brown and registers 165 degrees with meat thermometer inserted in thickest parts.

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