Slow-Grilled Chicken With Lemon
- 1 chicken, cut into 8 or 10 pieces
- Juice of a lemon
- Salt and pepper
- Chipotle peach salsa, optional (see recipe)
- Start a charcoal, wood or gas fire in a grill big enough to bank coals to one side once they get hot.
- With a gas grill, turn heat to high on one side and leave other side off; if there are three burners, you can set the two side ones to medium or even low and cook in the middle.
- When grill is hot, put chicken on least hot part, skin-side up, and cover grill.
- Let chicken cook for about 20 minutes.
- When bottom of chicken is lightly seared and meat is beginning to look cooked, turn meat over in the same part of grill.
- Cover again and check after about 10 minutes.
- When skin is lightly browned, turn again.
- Continue to cook in the least hot part of grill until chicken looks close to done.
- At this point, you can set chicken aside for a couple of hours, if you wish.
- When ready to serve, move chicken to hot side of grill.
- With a gas grill, simply ignite the burner that is under chicken.
- Cook attentively, turning chicken until it is brown and crisp all over, 5 to 10 minutes.
- Serve hot, warm or at room temperature; just before serving, drizzle with lemon juice and sprinkle with salt and lots of pepper.
- Serve, if you like, with chipotle-peach salsa.
chicken, salt, peach salsa
Taken from cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1015649 (may not work)