Indirect Heat Gas Grill Chicken

Well before you turn on that grill here is the golden rule of grilling.

Indirect heat gas grill chicken.

Indirect cooking on a covered grill proves to be the ticket to success. Look to indirect heat grilling when cooking large pieces of meat like whole chickens roasts or cedar plank fish. With all these recipes available to you preparing the best grilled chicken thighs on a gas grill is up to you your creativity and your love for food. The breasts and wing pieces will take 30 to 40.

Indirect grilling is effective for large cuts of meat thick steaks roasts or even entire chickens that need long slow heat or foods like pizza that need to be seared then finished slowly. Grill the barbecue chicken. My husband said this was the best chicken he had ever had. The area over the turned off burner is the indirect heat section.

Turn all burners on high and close the lid. Do this by creating two heat zones. When temperature inside the grill reaches 400 f turn off one burner. Grill the marinated chicken thighs on a pre heated grill over medium heat for 15 minutes.

For a gas grill leave one burner turned off. Meanwhile prepare a gas grill for indirect heat. Cook the chicken rotating the pieces 180 degrees every 15 minutes until an instant read thermometer inserted in the thickest part of the chicken. Prepare your grill for high indirect heat no coals or burners on directly under the bird.

So you have that new gas grill and you want to cook ribs or a whole chicken. Place the seasoned chicken on the indirect side of the grill skin side up if using skin on chicken as close to the fire as possible without being over the direct heat. Slow grilled chicken breasts with indirect heat for a hour gives you the most juicy and tender chicken that you have ever eaten. For a charcoal grill stack coals on one side of grill.

04 brush the cooking grates clean. When you cut into it you can see all the juice that remains. If not you can roast the chicken right away. Grill the chicken pieces skin side down first over indirect medium heat with the lid closed until fully cooked turning once or twice.