Good morning fellow foodies and food lovers alike. Well rested and ready to embark on a fun food adventure, full of new experiences and perfecting old skills and recipes. Today's adventure is totally new to me. we are going to butterfly and grill a whole chicken. This idea was not mine alone nor will i be embarking on this adventure alone. I have a little man muscle behind me in my trusty friend Hector. Who may i just say has never done this before either. Now the concept seems simple enough buy a whole chicken cut out the back bone and you have a butterflied chicken. And yet i will now do this until he gets here so as you can see i am a little timid...... so lets get on to the fun part and we can deal with Mr chicken when hector comes over later. We have the chicken and that is where i get stuck. What are we going to have with the "butterflied grilled chicken"? Now i could sit here rack my brain and looks though my endless recipes to find something to join Mr chicken, that is option one. I am going to go for option two. Letting all my senses take over and guide me in my choice. The perfect place for this to happen is the farmers market. So i am going to leave you for now and go off to the farmers market where i am going to let the colors, smells and textures speak to me. rest up for part two of uncharted territories "The Farmers market" a bit later.
Here's my little addition, for a quick item in the grill try butterflying a boneless chicken breast and tenderize it with a mallet. Coat it lightly with your favorite dry rub. With a two-zone (one side hot, one side not as hot) cook over the hot zone until ALMOST done, move it to the safe zone and glaze it with BBQ sauce (this keeps the sugars in the BBQ sauce from burning)
ReplyDeleteOne thing I've been meaning to do is to do the same, but instead cook it while mopping it with a combo of butter and Tabasco sauce as a kind of grilled buffalo chicken.
I have to try the butterflied whole chicken on the grill, sounds great!!
-Doug