There are hundreds and thousands of chicken recipes. They can be found in almost any kitchen in the world. But if you want to try something unusual, spicy, unforgettable taste, then the chicken should be cooked on the grill. You can find recommendations on how to cook grilled chicken in this article. The methods of its preparation are simple and quite affordable if you have a charcoal grill or an oven equipped with a grill in a gas stove. There are several more varieties of electric grill, with built-in heating elements, an open tungsten spiral or a closed ten. In any case, you will need a temperature of +260 - 300 degrees.
The most common grill is a grill type device, where meat or fish is placed on a grill, and
charcoal burns or smolders under the grill
. There are many ways to cook grilled chicken, but not all of them are suitable for cooking a whole chicken. The grill usually has a mechanism for raising and lowering the grill, which allows you to choose the optimal location of the products in relation to the coals. As a rule, chicken is not cooked on such a grill whole, but in parts. Legs and wings, breast and back are laid out on the grill. All pieces are well cooked on a flat grill and at the same time remain juicy. It is difficult to fry whole chicken on a
charcoal grill , because even heat acts only in a certain plane and does not rise higher. The lower part of the chicken carcass will be fried, and the upper part will be raw. To solve the question of how to cook whole grilled chicken, you need to turn to other methods.
In order to cook a whole chicken, it is better to use the grill in the oven. Much has been written about how to cook grilled chicken in the oven. The oven grill is designed in such a way that the heat is distributed evenly throughout the entire volume of the oven. During cooking, the chicken is on the grill in the middle, and the heating power is regulated by turning the gas valve. Through the transparent doors of the oven, you can observe the process and in time reduce or, conversely, increase the heating.
From time to time, the oven can be slightly opened and the chicken greased, which flows from it down onto the pallet. In any information on how to cook grilled chicken, this simple procedure is sure to be present, which will give your chicken a wonderful golden crust when ready.
Some models of oven grills have special rotating devices that slowly wrap chicken carcass around its axis during frying. Before frying, the chicken is mounted on a skewer at the top of the oven, which rotates slowly with an electric drive. Thus, the chicken is fried evenly from all sides and you can cook the chicken in the oven in this way. Electric grills act in a similar way: the chicken rotates during the cooking process and by the end of cooking remains juicy, with a golden crust over the entire surface.
Regardless of how chicken is cooked, it is necessary to marinate the chicken carcass first. Only
pickled chicken will turn out delicious and tender, crispy and juicy. There are many ways to marinate chicken, we offer here our own, repeatedly tested and quite reliable. Marinade is not easy, with many ingredients, but it's worth it. So: Provencal mayonnaise (150 g), a tablespoon of adjika, four cloves of garlic, minced in a crush, one medium onion, finely chopped, a tablespoon of olive oil, Extra small salt (one teaspoon), coarsely ground black pepper (a third of tea tablespoons), ground red pepper (half a teaspoon), juice of half a lemon, a little sparkling water to obtain a homogeneous semi-liquid mass. The mixture is stirred very carefully. Chicken is smeared from the outside and from the inside, twice. It is wrapped in foil for two hours.