Baste and marinade—
Chicken Recipe: This is truly the marinade recipe for Koo Koo Roo Chicken and their basting sauce.
Source: Top Secret Recipes, Serves: 4
Marinade:
1 cup water
1/2 cup apple juice
1 cup tomato vegetable juice (V8 will work fine)
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1/2 cup pineapple juice
1 cup chopped onion
2 teaspoons salt
2 teaspoons ground black pepper
1 whole chicken or, several chicken breasts…. skinned and cut into 8 pieces (legs, thighs, breasts, and wings)
Baste:
2 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon olive oil
1/2 cup thinly sliced onions
1 10-ounce can tomato puree
1/4 cup water
1 tablespoon white vinegar
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1/4 teaspoon salt
Dash ground black pepper
Dash garlic powder
Combine all of the ingredients for the marinade in a medium bowl. Mix well.
Add chicken to the marinade and leave it for at least 24 hours. It’s even better if you let the chicken marinate longer, for as much as 48 to 72 hours.
Sometime before the chicken is done marinating, prepare the basting sauce by heating 1 teaspoon of the oil in a medium skillet. Sauté the sliced onions until they begin to blacken a bit. Pour the onions into a medium saucepan with the other baste ingredients. Bring mixture to a full boil, then reduce heat and simmer for 5 to 7 minutes. Remove from heat. When cool, cover the baste and chill until it’s needed.
When you are ready to cook the chicken, fire up your grill to medium heat. Grill the chicken for 5 to 6 minutes, then turn it over and grill for another 5 to 6 minutes. Turn chicken over once more and brush the top with the baste. Grill for another 5 to 6 minutes, then turn the chicken over again, baste the other side, and cook it until it’s done, around 20 to 24 minutes total cooking time that will vary from piece to piece. You should see a few charred black spots on the surface of the chicken, but don’t let it burn.
This recipe is from Top Secret Recipes website. I have tried it a million times and thought geeee, I should share it with all of ya’ll 
It’s great for the dieters and non-dieters. Super tasty !!!
**Don’t forget all you dieters out there that just about all the marinade dips and cooks off so you don’t have to worry much at all about the juices in the recipe. If you are competition prep then maybe you may not want to do this if you are super restricted with your foods.
