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Chicken Under A Brick

This is a delicious marinade that yields a tender & flavorful chicken. Have your butcher butterfly the chicken removing the breast and back bones. It cooks just as well without the bricks.

Course: Main Course

Keyword: chicken

Servings:

Author: Emeril Lagasse

Ingredients

1 cup olive oil
1/2 cup lemon juice
2 tablespoons minced garlic
1 tablespoon lemon zest
1 tablespoon freshly chopped rosemary leaves
1 tablespoon freshly chopped thyme leaves
1 tablespoon freshly chopped parsley leaves
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
1 whole chicken 3 to 3 1/2 pounds
2 bricks wrapped in aluminum foil

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 500 degrees F and preheat grill to medium-low.
In a small mixing bowl, combine the olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, lemon zest, rosemary, thyme, parsley, kosher salt, and crushed red pepper. Mix to combine and set aside.
Place the chicken on a cutting board. With a boning knife and/or poultry scissors, cut along both sides of the backbone and remove. Place the chicken skin side down on a clean work surface and, using a paring or small boning knife, cut underneath and around the breast bone on both sides, cutting the cartilage away from the flesh so that you can work your fingers underneath the bone, and then carefully remove the breast bone. The chicken should lay flat like an open book. Tuck the wing tips behind the joint of the wing that meets the breast. Cut small tips in the skin that hangs beneath the thighs and tuck the tips of the drumstick bones inside.
Place in a gallon ziplock bag and add the marinade. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours and up to 6 hours, turning occasionally to evenly coat.
Preheat the bricks for 20 minutes.
Remove the chicken from the grill, place on a cutting board and let rest for 5 minutes. Cut the chicken into quarters and serve immediately.