Buttermilk-Brined Grilled Chicken

Name: Buttermilk-Brined Grilled Chicken
Prep time: 1 d 1 h 5 min
Cook time: 1 d 1 h 5 min
Total time: 1 d 1 h 5 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 59 milliliters firmly packed light brown sugar; 473 milliliters buttermilk; 2 kilograms cut-up whole chicken; 3 garlic cloves, halved; 59 milliliters hot sauce; 3 Tbsps kosher salt; 1 lemon, thinly sliced; 1 Tbsp freshly cracked pepper; 1 small sweet onion, thinly sliced; 473 milliliters cold water

You can never have too many main course recipes, so give Buttermilk-Brined Grilled Chicken a try. Watching your figure? This gluten free recipe has 682 calories, 53g of protein, and 43g of fat per serving. This recipe serves 6. Head to the store and pick up firmly brown sugar, freshly cracked pepper, water, and a few other things to make it today. To use up the water you could follow this main course with the Watermelon-Peach Slushies as a dessert. The Fourth Of July will be even more special with this recipe. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 25 hours and 5 minutes.

Instructions

Whisk together first 6 ingredients in a large bowl until sugar is dissolved; stir in onion and next 2 ingredients.

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Onion

Sugar

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Bowl

Place buttermilk mixture and chicken in a large zip-top plastic freezer bag; seal and chill 24 hours.

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Buttermilk

Whole Chicken

Remove chicken from marinade, discarding marinade; pat chicken dry with paper towels.

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Marinade

Whole Chicken

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Paper Towels

Light 1 side of grill, heating to 300 to 350 (medium) heat.

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Grill

Place chicken, skin side up, over unlit side, and grill, covered with grill lid, 40 to 50 minutes or until a meat thermometer inserted in thickest portion registers 16

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