Alabama BBQ Chicken

Name: Alabama BBQ Chicken
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: American, Southern
Ingredients: 3/4 cup, mayonnaise; 2 tablespoons, cider vinegar; 2 teaspoons, sugar; 1/2 teaspoon, prepared horseradish; 1/2 teaspoon, table salt; 1/2 teaspoon, ground black pepper; 1/4 teaspoon, cayenne pepper; 1 teaspoon, table salt; 1 teaspoon, ground black pepper; 1/2 teaspoon, cayenne pepper; 2 , whole chickens (3 1/2- to 4-pound), patted dry and split, (see photos); 2 cups, hickory wood chips; , Vegetable oil for grill grate

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Appears in Cook's Country June/July 2006, America's Test Kitchen TV

We recreate this classic Alabama BBQ dish, one that features an ingredient unfamiliar to most cooks: white barbecue sauce.

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For an Alabama-inspired barbecued chicken recipe, we ditched the tomato and slathered a mayonnaise-based sauce on hickory-smoked chicken. Smoking generally takes hours, but our recipe expedites the process by cutting the chicken in half and...

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