Sweet Tea-Brined Chicken

Name: Sweet Tea-Brined Chicken
Prep time: 2 h 35 min
Cook time: 2 h 35 min
Total time: 2 h 35 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 118 milliliters firmly packed light brown sugar; 680 grams cut-up whole chicken; 3 garlic cloves, halved; 473 milliliters ice cubes; 59 milliliters kosher salt; 1 lemon, thinly sliced; 1 Tbsp freshly cracked pepper; 2 sprigs (6-inch) fresh rosemary; 1 small sweet onion, thinly sliced; 2 family-size tea bags

Sweet Tea-Brined Chicken is a gluten free and dairy free main course. This recipe covers 9% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One serving contains 256 calories, 16g of protein, and 13g of fat. This recipe serves 8. If you have lemon, rosemary sprigs, garlic cloves, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the ice cubes you could follow this main course with the Nectarine, Blackberry, and Pecan Sundaes as a dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 2 hours and 35 minutes.

Instructions

Bring 4 cups water to a boil in a 3-qt. heavy saucepan; add tea bags.

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Tea Bag

Water

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Sauce Pan

Remove from heat; cover and steep 10 minutes.

Discard tea bags. Stir in sugar and next 6 ingredients, stirring until sugar dissolves. Cool completely (about 45 minutes); stir in ice. (

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Tea Bag

Sugar

Ice

Mixture should be cold before adding chicken.)

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Whole Chicken

Place tea mixture and chicken in a large zip-top plastic freezer bag; seal.

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Whole Chicken

Tea

Place bag in a shallow baking dish and chill 24 hours.

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Baking Pan

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 one side of grill, heating to 300 to 350 (medium) heat; leave other side unlit.

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Grill

Place chicken, skin side down, over unlit side, and grill, covered with grill lid, 20 minutes. Turn chicken, and grill, covered with grill lid, 20 minutes. Turn chicken, and grill, covered with grill lid, 40 to 50 minutes or until done.

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Whole Chicken

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Grill

Transfer chicken, skin side down, to lit side of grill, and grill 2 to 3 minutes or until skin is crispy.

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Whole Chicken

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Grill

Let stand 5 minutes before serving.