President Nixons Marinated Barbecue Chicken Recipe

"Not the traditional barbecue sauce, more Greek. "4 broiler-fryer chickens, cut up into pieces" was how they worded it. I'm going with thighs but could use leg and thighs. Season to taste. They were all shaking salt all over everything back then. Folks have used this a rotisserie chicken."

Original is 8 servings

Metric US

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Ingredients

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1 cup margarine (1 cup olive oil)
3/4 cup lemon juice
2 teaspoons garlic salt (or 1/2 garlic powder)
2 tablespoons paprika
2 teaspoons dried oregano

Chicken
4 pounds chicken thighs
3 teaspoons salt, to taste (they had a heavy hand with salt)
1/2 teaspoon pepper, to taste

Nutritional

Serving Size: 1 (280 g)
Calories 713.6
Total Fat - 60.7 g
Saturated Fat - 14.9 g
Cholesterol - 222.3 mg
Sodium - 1314.7 mg
Total Carbohydrate - 4.4 g
Dietary Fiber - 1.4 g
Sugars - 0.7 g
Protein - 37.7 g
Calcium - 41.4 mg
Iron - 2.2 mg
Vitamin C - 10.6 mg
Thiamin - 0.2 mg

Step by Step Method

Step 1

Melt margarine in saucepan.(could use margarine and olive oil)

Step 2

Stir in lemon juice, garlic salt, (and garlic powder it's too salty for today's recipe), oregano and paprika.

Step 3

Put pieces of chicken in Tupperware (or ziplock bags. Everyone back in the day went to Tupperware parties and everyone had them) to marinate in, and sprinkle with salt and pepper.(Go lightly on this one)