Chicken Dinner

[horsesNchicks]

I am processing my first CX batch next week and want the first meal to be special. We usually cut up a chicken and throw it on the grill but I want our first homegrown chicken dinner to be special. What's your favorite chicken dinner recipe?
Thanks so much

 

[Fat Daddy]

Congrats! Butchering is never fun. But after a few days the feast is always awesome! I have two favorites.... The first is Spatchcock chicken.... it's best cooked with indirect heat, grill or smoker either. Cut up both sides of the backbone and pop breast bone it's easy to do. This let's the bird lay flat and cook evenly. I rub the skin with olive oil and give a good coating of a rub you like.. Cover the whole bird with rub the night before cooking.... I use "Smoke'n Guns" hot.... it's not really hot once it's cooked.... if cooking indirect, cooking skin side down will yield a juicier bird.

The second is simple BBQ chicken parts.... legs and thighs always great.

 

[horsesNchicks]

Yum thank you we will try them both

 

[Maeschak]

If you happen to have one or know anyone who has one of those Ron Popeil (sp?) "set it and forget it" rotisseries try that. That is my absolute favorite way to have chicken (rotisserie). I just rub with salt and pepper before cooking and that is it. (You can also stuff with apples, herbs, etc but I find I don't really need to go to all the trouble).

The other favorite is to spatchcock the bird (as Fat Daddy posted above) and grill it. I grill a bit differently though- salt and pepper the bird, then put a metal tray of water on the grill. Then place a metal rack on top of the water tray and place the bird flesh side down on the water tray/rack combo. Turn the grill up high to like 475 or so. Put the lid down and cook until done. The skin should come out crisp and the flesh super moist. Seems odd to put a tray of water in the grill but it works fantastically. Also, the fat drips into the water tray and avoids flare ups.

 

[YdogsflY]

Spatchcock is how I like to do things for the Special Occasions. But my favorite chicken dinner meal is my Slippery Potpie. I could eat that every day in the winter if I wouldn't gain 100 lbs.

The Old Beer Can method works to.

 

[Fat Daddy]

Damn that looks good!

 

[YdogsflY]

Damn that looks good!

Thanks, it was very tasty.

Drink a little beer out of the can, put in the seasoning you want. I used Jerk seasoning for this one. Smother the outside of the bird in the seasoning and shove the beer can up the hole. Stuffed the neck end with lemons and mango trying to get them around the can to.

Indirect heat for a few hours. Lots of apple wood chunks mixed in with the charcoal.

 

[Fat Daddy]

Is that a Webber kettle or WSM?

 

[YdogsflY]

Is that a Webber kettle or WSM?

It's a 22" kettle in their "Performer" setup.

 

[Ronald12]

Damn that Spatchcock chicken looks amazing..I was about to go the kitchen after reading the post but thought I'll thank your first. Now I'm off to the kitchen