Recipe: Blackened Chicken

BLACKENED CHICKEN

1 tablespoon each COARSE ground black pepper, allspice, ground rosemary
1 teaspoon each ground cayenne pepper and hickory salt*
1 teaspoon garlic powder
Butter or margarine for frying (not oil)
Chicken, skin on, cut into individual pieces

(This produces a lot of smoke so be sure and ventilate)

Preheat oven to 300 degrees F.

Mix all spices together thoroughly.

Melt the butter in the frying pan on medium heat. Coat the chicken pieces thoroughly with the spice mixture and cook in butter on high heat until spice coating is black.

Transfer to an oven pan and bake at 300 degrees F for 20-30 minutes until chicken is done.

This recipe also works well on the barbecue grill.

*I cut the amount of cayenne pepper in half; 1 teaspoon of red pepper is too much for me! (You may wish to do the same with the hickory salt.)

VARIATIONS:
This may be used on other meats such as pork (so-so), fish or steak (out-standing). For these, cook the meat in the pan rather than the oven after blackening on medium heat.

Enjoy!