Keto Blackened BBQ Chicken
You’ll enjoy biting into this Keto BBQ chicken fresh off the grill or stovetop! Thinly-sliced chicken breast is marinated in a homemade spice dry rub. You’ll char and blacken the chicken after marinating it, then it all gets coated in a tangy BBQ sauce. The BBQ sauce is homemade as well, keeping the recipe very low in carbs. The sauce is tangy with a Southwestern influence. Use the dry rub or homemade BBQ sauce on other meats as well! They both taste great on chicken, pork, fish, or beef. Enjoy the Keto BBQ chicken as is or on a bun with coleslaw and mayonnaise.
How to Make It
Step 1
Combine salt, pepper, paprika, chili powder, cumin, onion powder, garlic powder, and mustard powder in a small dish. You can mix the spices together, taste, and adjust any seasonings as you wish. The BBQ rub should taste a little on the salty side.
Step 2
Cut all the chicken breast into thin slices. Rub all the chicken down with olive oil using your hands (about ½ teaspoon of olive oil per slice of chicken). Wash your hands, then sprinkle all of the BBQ seasoning over all the chicken. Use your hands again to rub the seasoning into the flesh.
Step 3
Marinate the chicken for at least 2 hours, or up to to 4-6 hours. When the chicken is done marinating, make the BBQ sauce. Combine sugar-free ketchup, beef broth, brown mustard, apple cider vinegar, and brown sugar substitute in a pot on the stove. Whisk the ingredients together while you heat them to a simmer.
Step 4
Once the sauce is simmering, season the sauce with salt, pepper, onion powder, garlic powder, paprika, and cumin. Keep the stove heat on low and let the sauce bubble as it warms up and reduces. Once the sauce is done, leave it aside to cool down and thicken back up.
Step 5
You can cook the chicken on a grill or on the stove. In this case, the chicken was cooked on a large metal skillet on very high heat. If you’re cooking the chicken in a pan, you want the pan to be smoking-hot before you add the chicken. Cook your chicken on both sides on a grill or stovetop until the spices have charred and the chicken has cooked through.
Step 6
Let the cooked chicken cool and rest for just 5 minutes. Next, you can slather all the chicken in BBQ sauce. If there’s any extra sauce leftover, you can serve it on the side for dipping. Enjoy the BBQ chicken as is or add it to Keto buns to make sandwiches.
Ingredients
- Salt
3 tsp
- Black pepper
2 tsp
- Paprika
6 tsp
- Chili powder
2 tsp
- Cumin, ground
2 tsp
- Onion powder
1 tsp
- Garlic powder
3 tsp
- Mustard powder
2 tsp
- Chicken Breast Boneless Skinless Raw
70 oz
- Olive Oil
7 tsp
- No Sugar Added Tomato Ketchup
1 cup
- Beef broth
0.25 cup
- Spicy brown mustard
1.5 tsp
- Apple cider vinegar
1 tsp
- Brown Sugar Replacement
1.5 tbsp
- Salt
0.25 tsp
- Black pepper
0.5 tsp
- Onion powder
0.25 tsp
- Garlic powder
0.5 tsp
- Paprika
2.5 tsp
- Cumin, ground
0.75 tsp