Salt Brick Grilled Chicken

Name: Salt Brick Grilled Chicken
Prep time: 1 h 20 min
Cook time: 1 h 20 min
Total time: 1 h 20 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 4 servings chicken; 1 clove garlic; 4 servings coarsely ground black pepper; 1 lemon; 4 servings olive oil; 4 servings salt blocks

Salt Brick Grilled Chicken might be just the main course you are searching for. This recipe makes 4 servings with 372 calories, 21g of protein, and 31g of fat each. This recipe covers 10% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. The Fourth Of July will be even more special with this recipe. Head to the store and pick up lemon, garlic cloves, coarsely ground pepper, and a few other things to make it today. To use up the olive oil you could follow this main course with the Sauteed Banana, Granolan and Yogurt Parfait as a dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 1 hour and 20 minutes.

Instructions

Place the salt blocks on a grill grate of a gas grill over low heat, close the lid and warm for 10 minutes while you prepare the chicken. Turn the heat to medium and heat the block for 10 more minutes. Its surface should be about 375°F. If you are using a charcoal fire, set up a bilevel fire with half the grill set up for low heat (one layer of coals) and the other half set up for medium heat (two layers of coals).

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Whole Chicken

Salt

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Grill

Remove and discard the neck and package of innards from the cavity of the chicken.

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Whole Chicken

Place the chicken, breast side down, on a cutting board. With a large knife or poultry shears, cut down the length of the spine on both sides.

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Poultry

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Poultry Shears

Cutting Board

Knife

Remove the spine.

Cut the breast side of the chicken in half lengthwise. You will now have two chicken halves.Wash the halves in cold water and pat dry with paper towels. Coat with the olive oil and rub all over with the cut sides of the garlic cloves; afterward tuck the pieces of garlic under the edges of the skin. Season all over with the pepper.Clean the area of the grill grate not occupied by the salt block with a wire brush.

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Garlic

Olive Oil

Whole Chicken

Pepper

Water

Salt

Dry Seasoning Rub

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Paper Towels

Grill

Put the chicken halves, skin side down, on the grill grate and, using grill gloves or thick oven mitts, put a hot salt block on top of each half. Close the lid and cook until the chicken skin is crisp and deeply grill-marked, about 15 minutes.

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Whole Chicken

Salt

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Oven Mitt

Grill

Remove the blocks using the grill gloves, flip the chicken halves with tongs, put the blocks back on top of the chicken, close the lid and cook until an instant-read thermometer inserted into the inside of the thicker thigh registers 170 degrees, 10 to 15 minutes.

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Whole Chicken

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Kitchen Thermometer