Santa Maria Style Chicken Barbecue Fundraiser held May 17, 2008

If you'd like to host a BBQ Chicken fundraiser event for a large group, here's some good information on how to organize and prepare for the event, including a BBQ Chicken recipe to serve a large group of 800 people.

Here's one of the best Santa Maria Style Chicken BBQ fundraising teams in Santa Maria!  The Coastal Xtreme Girls 14U were fund raising with the world's best Santa Maria Style chicken barbecue! The BBQ crew was happy to share their Santa Maria style BBQ chicken fundraising recipes and tips for the best seasonings and grilling advice!  I talked with Darrell Cosand and his fundraising barbecue team, and they shared their recipe for a large barbecue fundraising event for the best Santa Maria style chicken barbecue!  I tried the barbecue chicken, and it was outstanding! 

That's my son Scot in the picture below, holding out the chicken barbeque dinner, which included 1/2 grilled chicken, garlic bread, salad, chile beans, and fire grilled corn on the cob - an excellent fundraising bbq meal!  Read on for their large group event fundraising barbecue chicken recipes for a charity fundraising BBQ event! 

Wondering how to plan for a large bbq chicken fundraiser?  Well here's how this team shopped! 

Recipe for Santa Maria Style BBQ Chicken

• 800 chicken halves
• 20 oz. garlic salt
• 10 oz. Lawry's seasoned salt (no MSG)
• 5 oz pepper
• onion salt  (they didn't use this today, but Darrell said he does use it sometimes....)
• 6 tall neck beers (for the steamer pots.... buy more to drink!)
• 78 loaves bread
• corn on the cob (they sold it separately, so probably didn't buy 400!)
• butter  (probably several pounds, didn't ask, sorry)
• oil (just about any vegetable oil)

Mix the seasonings and cover the chickens.  Place them on the hot grill, and spray with a mist of the cooking oil.  The chickens need to be turned frequently.  You want to aim for a golden color, not brown.  Cooking time is about 1 hour and 10 minutes.  Have a couple of huge pots ready to go.  Pour a couple of beers in each pot to get the steam going, and place a steamer trivet in the bottom of each pot to keep the chicken out of the liquid.  Take the bbq chicken off the grill when it's almost done, and place it in the hot steamer pot, which is also over the coals.  Cover with a lid, and cook the Santa Maria style bbq chicken in the steam for an additional 1/2 hour.  You can leave it in the pot for up to 1 1/2 hours.  With a large amount of chicken being cooked, it's probably easier to use 2 pots, so you can have a regular flow to the serving line from the chicken that has been in the pots for over 1/2 hour, with one pot reserved for the chicken just being removed from the grill.  If the pots are full, just raise the barbecue grill up high to slow the cooking of the almost done chicken on the grill, to allow you to sell some of the chicken that's ready to go in the steamer pots.