The best grilled chicken
Well now! I found a chicken recipe that has changed the way I prepare chicken forever. Never again will I roast a whole chicken in the oven. This will change your life completely.
Marthinus StrydomThe Story
No one is really sure where the term barbecue originated. The conventional wisdom is that the Spanish, upon landing in the Caribbean, used the word barbacoa to refer to the natives' method of slow-cooking meat over a wooden platform. The real term is to "spatchcock." Alan Davidson explains in The Oxford Companion to Food: "The theory is that the word is an abbreviation of 'dispatch the cock,' a phrase used to indicate a summary way of grilling a bird after splitting it open down the back and spreading the two halves out flat."
Subscripe to my Facebook page.
Subscripe to my Youtube channel.
© All recipes are copyright protected by TheCultureCook.com unless the recipe was adapated from another source. All recipes are uniquely crafted and adapted by TheCultureCook.com. Copyright of some or all of the text reside with the original author.
Ingredients
Method
- Prepare grill for low heat (for a charcoal grill, bank coals on one side of grill). Combine paprika, salt, black pepper, and cayenne in a small bowl.
- Place chicken on a work surface, skin side up. Cut backbone out. Using your palms, press firmly on breastbone to flatten breast. Season chicken all over with paprika mixture, patting to adhere.
- Grill chicken on indirect heat, skin side down, rotating occasionally, until charred, 20-30 minutes. Turn chickens skin side up. Grill, rotating occasionally for another 20-30 minutes. Heat must be medium and if your grill has a lid, close the lid.
- Transfer to cutting board and let rest for 30 minutes. The resting is critical!
- Meanwhile, drizzle bread on both sides with olive oil and grill over direct heat until toasted and lightly charred, about 4 minutes; transfer to a platter.
- Grill lemon, cut side down, over direct heat until lightly charred and juices start to caramelize, about 4 minutes.
- Place chicken on top of bread and scatter parsley over. Squeeze 2 or 3 lemon halves over; serve with remaining lemons.
