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Rip's Tarragon Butter Baste

Make this baste and slather your chicken with it as it cooks over live coals.
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Course: Baste for Grilled Chicken
Cuisine: American
Ingredients Method

Ingredients
  

  • juice from ½ lime
  • 3-finger pinch salt
  • 1 tablespoon minced shallot
  • 1 stick butter, cut into 5 chunks
  • 1 tablespoon mince tarragon
  • 1 tablespoon dry mustard
  • ⅛ teaspoon cayenne powder

Method
 

  1. Combine the lime juice and salt in a small sauté or sauce pan then set over high heat. Just as the juice begins to simmer, add the butter a chunk at a time, swirling continuously until the butter is completely melted. Add the remaining ingredients and remove from the heat.
  2. This will make enough baste for one whole chicken. My dad bought spit broilers, but you can also cut the chicken up or spatchcock it, a word he'd have loved.