Showing posts with label BBQ chicken. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BBQ chicken. Show all posts

Saturday, September 3, 2011

Buy Some Bricks and Make Crispy Grilled Chicken Under a Brick

This is another great post from California Olive Ranch on Brick Chicken that looks awesome.  Enjoy!!


We visited the hardware store recently store to buy a couple of bricks … for grilling purposes. We wanted to make the famed Tuscan dish chicken under a brick. We weren’t disappointed. We got a beautifully crispy chicken infused with rosemary, sage, and garlic. Bricks are now a go-to grilling tool for us.






We got the recipe for chicken under a brick — or pollo al mattone — from grilling guru Steven Raichlen’s book, Planet Barbecue! (Workman Publishing, 2010). It’s a great resource, and we’ve been cooking from it frequently. (Click here to get the recipe.)
For this recipe, a whole chicken is butterflied, or spatchcocked, rubbed with rosemary, sage and sea salt, and then grilled under bricks.  The bricks flatten the bird out so you get a nice, crispy skin. You can also use game hens or baby chickens, known as poussins. (That’s our cooked chicken below.)

Raichlen suggests drizzling the grilled bird with a good quality extra virgin olive oil. We did that, too, and it kicked up the flavor another notch.
We’ve made this dish a few times. We’re looking forward to making it again. If you ever make it and happen to have friends over, they’ll no doubt be impressed — particularly when you show them the chicken sizzling away under the bricks. They’ll love the flavor, too.
Memphis Food Guy