This lemon-ed up Pollo is sure to delight. The recipe is based on the Classic a la Brasa recipe with a few minor 'tweaks'. As with the Classic a la Brasa recipe, you may not have all of the ingredients listed or may just wish to improvise a few steps. If you do not have one of the ingredients or hardware available...improvise, improvise, improvise. Sometimes great innovation comes from 'using what you have'. Let us know what you changed about the recipe and how it worked out for you.
A charcoal fire with a rotisserie is the uptimal setup, but life may leave you without a Grill. You may be the type to dig a hole in the ground and fashion a rotisserie out of sticks or you may be the type that decides that the oven is perhaps the way to go. As long as you loosely follow the recipe, your chicken will be great even if it's cooked in the Boiler in you Apartment building's basement. In anycase, the only essential thing here is the Chicken itself. Again, don't be tempted to buy one of those freakishly large 'oven roaster' chicken. They require more indirect heat and longer cooking times which effectivle smoke the bird. Smoked chicken is good and all but it is not what you are going for here. If you don't have a rotisserie, the 'beer-can' method of grilling chicken seems to work the best of all of the indirect grilling methods. Check out our section on indirect grilling and the beer-can method specifically. As with the Classic, this should be served with the usual suspects (huacatay/aji sauce, mayo, french fries, salad(?)). After making this recipe a few times, you may want to improvise the marinade paste to 'make it your own'. Please experiment and let us know how it goes. Remember one thing: this is supposed to be a paste, so keep you liquids to a minimum. In our Substitutions section, we offer some tips on how to achieve the best results from even the humble oven. In this section we also offer alternatives to other hard to come by ingredients
Rinse chicken well inside out, pat dry, cut off excess fat, tuck the wings
Combine the reaiming ingredients in an upright mixer (or in a bowl if using an Immersion blender)
Pulse mixture until you have a paste. If necessary, thin the mixture with water or more lemon juice.
Taste it. Add more lemon juice and salt accordingly.
Rub the chicken with mixture inside and out, making sure you covered all parts of the chickens. Flavoring cannot naturally penetrate chicken skin. Where ever possible, it is important to seperate the skin and apply the paste directly to the meat.
Seal them up in a large zip-top bag (or in a large bowl covered in plastic wrap) and put them in the fridge for 6 hours.
Prepare your Grill. We of course like to use wood char rather than gas, but use what you have. In our "Alternative Methods" section, we even explore Deep Fried Pollo. But for now, we'll stick to the Brasa bro. If you lack a Grill Rotisserie, you will need to setup your grill for indirect grilling*. Be careful not to 'smoke' the chicken. We are not here to smoke anything. The best Pollo a la Brasa has a slight charcoal flavor but NOT a smokey flavor. *See tips below
Maintain the pollo and the fire. It will take in a semi-open grill about 1 hour to 1 1/4 of an hour at medium heat (180 - 200 degrees F.) on an open Grill will take a little longer and temperature must be between 200 - 240 degrees F. Chicken should be about 12 inches away from fire at least. Much of this depends on your grill and your personal experience, so feel free to experiment. If you are using a rotiserrie, you may want to have the coals closer. Remove the bird from the Grill and place on a large cutting board when it has reached an internal temperature slightly over 170 degrees*. *See tips below
When the bird has sat for 10 minutes, quarter the bird with a butcher knife and serve with the condiments, maybe some french fries, and who knows...maybe a salad. See our post on quatering chicken here
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