Charcoal Bar-B-Que Chicken
- 8 chicken quarters (leg and thigh, breast and wing, or a combination of both)
- 2/3 cup olive oil
- 7 tablespoons All-Purpose Red Rub (page 167)
- 2 cups Mutha Sauce (page 165)
- Prep the chicken by breaking the joint between the leg and thigh, and trim away any backbone attached to the thigh.
- Tuck the wing tip under the spot where the wing joins the breast.
- Mix up the oil and All-Purpose Red Rub, and massage it into the chicken pieces.
- On the breast pieces you can even lift up the skin and massage the rub right into the flesh.
- Cover and refrigerate the chicken til youre ready to grill it.
- Build a medium coal bed in your grill.
- It should register 325 to 350 with the lid down.
- Open the lid and position the rack as high above the coals as possible.
- (This keeps the skin from getting too charred before the chicken is cooked through.)
- Arrange the chicken pieces, skin side up, directly over the coals.
- Close the lid and cook for 25 to 30 minutes; then give the chicken a flip, skin side down, and cook, covered, for 20 minutes more, or til it has an internal temperature of 160 to 165.
- Check the chicken, and push the pieces that look the most cooked to the cooler edge of the grill.
- Keep cooking the thicker pieces, moving them to the hotter spots on the grill til they reach the same amount of doneness.
- Flip all the pieces skin side up and slather on the Mutha Sauce.
- Close the lid of the grill and cook for 10 to 15 minutes more to glaze the chicken.
- Serve with more Mutha Sauce for ladling.
chicken quarters, olive oil, allpurpose red rub, mutha sauce
Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/charcoal-bar-b-que-chicken-389154 (may not work)