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

Main Courses
Chicken
Grilling & Barbecue

Appears in Cook's Illustrated May/June 1998

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.

SERVES 6 to 8

TIME 1¼ hours, plus 2 hours brining

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