Portuguese Chicken

Introduce

Chef :

ingridbagnariol

Portuguese Chicken

This chicken is quick and tasty. We have found many recipes for homemade Peri Peri sauce on-line if you have the time to make it, but have always had trouble finding instructions for cooking the chicken on the grill. After a bit of experimenting, this is what we came up with. It turns out well!

Ingredient

3 pound

whole chicken

Cooking instructions

* Step 1

Cut along one side of backbone and split open chicken.

* Step 2

Flatten chicken legs and thighs by pushing down on them and insert metal skewers crosswise from one breast to the other at the top and one thigh to the other at the bottom.

* Step 3

Grease grill with Pam and then heat grill to 550 degrees.

* Step 4

Turn off 1 burner and put the other 2 burners on medium heat. Cook chicken on indirect heat (burner that has been turned off) for 20 minutes with breast side down.

* Step 5

Continue to cook on indirect heat for 20 minutes with breast side up.

* Step 6

Brush chicken with Peri Peri sauce and cook for 5 more minutes on each side (10 minutes total) on indirect heat. Then brush on more sauce and cook for 5 more minutes on each side (10 minutes total) on direct heat (burners that are on). Inner temperature of meat should be 165 degrees Fahrenheit when done.