Grilled Lemon Chicken

Name: Grilled Lemon Chicken
Yield: Serves 6 to 8
Ingredients: 3/4 cup, kosher salt or 1/2 cup table salt; 2 , whole chickens (about 3 1/2 pounds each), cut into legs, thighs, breasts, and wings; backs reserved for another use; , Ground black pepper; 1/4 cup, extra-virgin olive oil; 4 large cloves, garlic, minced and made into paste (see illustrations below); 1 cup, lemon juice from 5 lemons; 1 tablespoon, minced fresh thyme leaves or 1 1/2 teaspoons dried

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated May/June 1998

Main Courses

Chicken

Grilling & Barbecue

The best way to get lemon flavor into chicken is not by marinating and not by basting but giving it a quick, final dunk into a lemon-garlic-olive oil sauce.

SERVES6 to 8

TIME1¼ hours, plus 2 hours brining

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

We wanted a grilled chicken recipe with lemon flavor that went straight to the bone. Our method of choice, derived from one that the father of one of our editors had developed over the course of 40 years of making grilled lemon chicken, inv...

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