North Alabama Style Pulled Chicken BBQ
This is a chicken version of the popular pulled pork bbq that can be found at just about any BBQ joint in North Alabama. Many folks forego the sauce entirely because it is already juicy and flavorful so nothing else is needed.
What’s even better is that my version tastes just like the restaurants, but instead of a smokehouse, we use a slow cooker and boneless skinless chicken breasts! Another huge benefit of this for me is that I can make 5 pounds of pulled chicken bbq for what I would purchase 1 pound of bbq for.
If you are looking for some sauce to add, check out the White BBQ Sauce Alabama that Southern Plate is famous for, click here.
Ingredients
- 5 lb boneless skinless chicken breasts
- 1 tablespoon salt
- 1 teaspoon pepper
- 1.5 cups apple cider vinegar
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon hot sauce
- 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes does not make it spicy
Instructions
- Place chicken in slow cooker. Pour cider vinegar over and add salt and pepper.
- Cook on high, 4-5 hours or low, 8-9 hours. Use tongs to remove chicken from slow cooker - note that chicken will fall apart as you do this.
- Take out 2 cups of liquid from the slow cooker and discard rest. To that two cups, add brown sugar, hot sauce, and pepper flakes. Stir. Put chicken back in slow cooker, pour sauce over, stir, and enjoy!
Notes
Nutrition
Recipes that go with Pulled Chicken:
Vinegar Slaw as pictured above
Homemade Banana Pudding, which could easily bring about world peace if used properly.
Love one another as I have loved you.
~Jesus
Oh! Also, we just drove through Alabama on our way to and from Florida last week. We usually go through Georgia, but avoiding Atlanta was enough reason to come up with an alternate route! We cut cross-country through the southern part on a 4-lane limited access highway and went through Cullman in the north. It was my first time driving through the state from top to bottom, and can I just say I LOVE northern Alabama! We stayed in Cullman on the way down and back and the people were incredibly pleasant and the terrain was absolutely gorgeous! My husband and I are both multi-generation mid-westerners and have never had the slightest desire to move south…until the trip last week through Alabama…my husband even conceded that he’d give up the snowmobiles to live in northern Alabama, if God opened up a door there. Thought you’d like to know 🙂
I am so glad you enjoyed your visit with our great state!!! It really does have some great benefits when one takes the time to enjoy them!!
AMEN sister! God has hit me up side the head with James 3:17-18 as I am faced with contentious people in my life and seek wisdom for how to respond…
“But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.”
Amen!! Hugs and Blessings to you Kinsey!
Have you made this with a Boston Butt instead of chicken? Thank you!!!!
Christy, You are spot on with the Grace idea. I wish that I practiced it more than I do. I thought so much of your article that I am going to send it to my Life group Leader at the church I attend and maybe it will be a topic of conversation as it is definitely needed during these troubled times for America. On another note, I grew up in Natural Bridge Alabama and this recipe is also spot on. I will be cooking this for my daughter and I. I love Big Bob Gibson’s place in Florence/Muscle Shoals and I love white sauce. Thanks for this and thank you so much for the Grace you show and share with us.
Thank YOU so much Dave, that means the world to me!!
I def need to try this.
God guided me to your website. You always give me the encouragement that I need when I need it. My neighbor is bound and determined to make our lives miserable. I have been praying for patience and guidance. Often I fail. I know that I need to pray for him too. Maybe someone is making him miserable. Thank you for your help and your recipes and memories. My mother lost her mother when she was 5 years old. So she did not have the loving teachers that you have had. Her grandma raised her, but she too lost her mother at a young age. My dad’s mom never learned to cook. I remember standing on a chair with an apron around my waist and stirring a pot of soup with my great aunt helping me. Guess what the soup was? Campbell’s mushroom soup! I appreciate all that you do. Thank you.
Another great recipe to put on my “Try This List”. Always looking for something new at meal time.