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Hickory Chiken - help please

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Hi,

My local pub does a mean Hickory chicken which the family love. :T

It is basically chicken breast, hickory sauce, bacon and cheese.

How would I go about trying to recreate this? Would I have to cook it all seperately, or could I assemble it all then bung it in the oven. :confused:

We eat quite healthily so the less fat the better.

Any advice woul be much appreciated, as DD and Dh are badgering me to make it!! :o

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  • well, that isnt exactly a healthy dish! The amount of fat in the bacon + cheese, then theres the sugar etc in the sauce, but once in a while is OK.

    It's just roasted chicken breast with BBQ sauce and bacon and a slice of cheese on it. Cook the bacon first, then put the sauce, bacon and cheese on top, back in the oven for a couple of minutes.
  • There's a pub near my parents house that does something similar - chicken in a barbeque sauce topped with bacon and cheese. The chicken always looks like it's been chargrilled as it's got the stripes on it, so if I were trying to do this at home I'd probably just fry off the chicken quickly, then top it with the sauce and the bacon and bake until the chicken is done ... I'd probably cover it too, just so the bacon doesn't dry out. I'd probably put the cheese on at the end and finish it off under the grill, I think that this is what they do as it's always incredibly hot when you get it at the pub.
  • If the chargrill stripes are perfect, then it will be bought-in cooked and microwaved, then the sauce and cooked bacon added , stuck under the grill for a few seconds.

    I'd say unless its a gastropub, 75% of the food in a pub nowadays will be bought from a few large suppliers already cooked and portioned. Then they don't need trained cooks, or much kitchen equipment.
  • Thanks for the replies.

    The chicken does have the chargrilled look to it, so i may bung the chicken on the George untill cooked, then layer it up and finish off in the oven.

    We dont have bacon at home as we have turkey rashers, which are very low in fat, so that and some lower fat cheese should make it a tad healthier!!
  • it will! Enjoy it!
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