Whole Grilled Chicken
From keni 11 years ago
- ~90 min plus to make
- Serves 6+
Grilling a whole chicken can be as easy or as complicated as you want it to be. Here's an easy way! Make an extra if you're going to the trouble(or, more accurately, time), and use the meat for something like this! Read more Grilled Chicken Salad See less
Ingredients
- 2 3-4lb whole chickens, cleaned shopping list
- 4 lemons shopping list
- 2 onions shopping list
- 1 stick butter, softened shopping list
- 2T smoked paprika shopping list
- 1T sweet or hot paprika shopping list
- 1-4t cayenne pepper shopping list
- 2T raw sugar(or sub brown) shopping list
- 1T dry mustard shopping list
- 2T grated fresh onion or sub dried, minced shopping list
- 4 cloves garlic, minced shopping list
- kosher or sea salt shopping list
- Plenty of fresh ground pepper shopping list
How to make it
- In small bowl, combine butter, paprikas, peppers, salt, sugar, mustard, onion and garlic. Mix to make a paste.
- Pat chickens dry and rub each with half of the butter mixture.
- Drizzle each with the juice from 1 lemon.
- Let rest 1 hour out of fridge, or up to over night in fridge before grilling.
- Heat grill and prepare it for indirect grilling.
- Put 1 onion(peeled and halved) and 1 lemon, cut in half, into the cavity of each chicken.
- Place chickens, breast sides up, onto a cooler spot of the grill and grill, turning once.
- Make sure to keep tending the coals to maintain a fairly constant temp.
- Grill for about an hour and half, or until a thermometer reads about 155-160.
- Let chicken rest about 10 minutes which should increase temp to a safe 165.
The Rating
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This worked perfectly Keni :) Added a review in the IMI -------------> Whole Grilled Chicken
10/11/15
mommyluvs2cook
in Santa Fe loved it
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