← Back to the recipe garden

🍗 Chicken & poultry

Chrissy Teigen's chipotle-honey BBQ chicken

With mango-avocado salsa

⏱️ Time estimate: about 45 minutes

Smoky, sweet, spicy chicken with a glossy sauce and a bright little pile of mango, avocado, red onion, and cilantro on top.

Sticky glazed chicken topped with mango avocado salsa

Ingredients

For the chipotle sauce

  • 1 (10.5 oz) can chipotle chiles in adobo
  • 1 1/2 cups barbecue sauce
  • 1/2 cup light brown sugar
  • 1/4 cup bourbon or whiskey
  • 20 garlic cloves
  • Juice of 1 lime

For the chicken

  • 4 large bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs
  • 4 bone-in, skin-on chicken drumsticks
  • Kosher salt
  • Freshly ground black pepper
  • 4 tablespoons honey

For the mango-avocado salsa

  • 1 large firm mango, pitted and finely diced
  • 1/2 firm avocado, diced
  • 3 tablespoons red onion, finely diced
  • 1/4 cup cilantro leaves
  • Grated zest and juice of 1/2 lime
  • Kosher salt
  • Freshly ground black pepper

Instructions

  1. Make the sauce. In a blender or food processor, combine the chipotles, barbecue sauce, brown sugar, bourbon, garlic, and lime juice. Blend until smooth, about 30 seconds.
  2. Marinate the chicken. Season the chicken generously with salt and pepper. Place it in a glass baking dish or a large zip-top bag, then pour in 2 cups of the chipotle sauce. Turn to coat well. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours, or up to 1 day.
  3. Heat the oven. Preheat the oven to 375°F. Line a baking sheet with foil.
  4. Bake the first round. Remove the chicken from the marinade, but keep it well coated. Arrange the pieces in one layer on the baking sheet. Bake for about 35 minutes, until almost cooked through and getting charred around the edges.
  5. Glaze and finish. Brush the chicken with the remaining 1/2 cup of chipotle sauce, drizzle the honey over the top, and bake about 10 minutes more, until fully cooked.
  6. Make the salsa. In a bowl, toss together the mango, avocado, red onion, cilantro, lime zest, lime juice, and salt and pepper to taste.
  7. Serve. Spoon the mango-avocado salsa over the chicken or serve it on the side.

Built from the recipe text recovered from web mirrors when the original page was unavailable, so this page stays easy to use even if the source disappears again.