bbq: This is actually my 1st time making bbq chicken. I'm making it for my parents when they come over so I don't really want to call my mother and ask her how to make it. I have about 2.5-3 lbs of boneless, skinless chicken breast. I want to bake it. How long should I bake it, at what temperature and do I add the Bbq sauce before I put it in the over, during or when? Thanks so much. Also what sides go well with it??|||Preheat your oven to 350F. Use a pan that will comfortably hold the chicken pieces and lightly mist with a spray style oil or use a piece of waxed paper or toweling to oil by hand. Put the chicken in, cover the dish tightly with foil. Bake about 35 minutes and remove from oven. Uncover (be careful of steam burns), drain off any fat/juice accumulation and brush the surface of the chicken with your sauce. Put back in oven, uncovered. After 10 minutes, remove and use the tip of a sharp knife and check the thickest part of the breast to see if it's done; the juice should run clear. Turn the pieces and baste with sauce. Place back in the oven for another 10 minutes or so. If the juices weren't clear when you checked, baste again and return for another 10 minutes or until they do. Side dishes I think would be good are: Apple cabbage slaw. Corn on the cob. Oven roasted potatoes. Buttermilk biscuits with a little honey and butter. |||Whichever way you wish to bake chicken, whatever you want to put on it, a good rule of thumb that has never failed me is -- for boneless chicken, 325 F for about an hour; for bone-in chicken parts, 350 F for about an hour or hour and ten. Start checking it at about 50 minutes. Don't let it go too much past an hour or it might dry out. If you want to know if it's done, pierce it open and make sure there's no pink, or no blood near a bone. For chicken with barbecue sauce, a lot of recipes will tell you to cover your chicken with foil because the sauce usually has some kind of sugar in it, which can burn. For sides, depends on how formal you want it. Potato salad or tossed salad, or cole slaw, or 3-bean salad; baked beans; or how about a tray of things like sliced tomatoes, cucumbers, olives, baby carrots ...|||This site should help: http://www.recipetips.com/recipes-collec鈥?/a>|||cover and bake. Bake 1 hour at 350 degrees or until tender. Remove cover last 15 minutes.