Peruvian Chicken on Frankenstein Grill

charcoalwilly · May 16, 2018

If you’ve never tried grilling Peruvian chicken with green sauce, give it a shot. Some of the best chicken you will ever eat.

I have adapted recipes from these two sites, leaving out the beer and lime since I find it makes it harder to crisp up the skin. Also I use Steven Raichlen’s tip for using annatto oil (1 TBL in marindade and reserve some for basting). Gives chicken beautiful color and bit of added flavor too.

Make a few slashes in the chicken to make it easier for marindade to penetrate (under skin too on the chicken breasts). These were parts so only marinaded for 4-5 hours which was plenty.

Used my bucket-of-bolts Frankenstein grill since I like to cook chicken high above coals (12” to 15”) and let that fat deliciousness drip down. Temps around 350-425 to render fat under skin.

Serve with French fries (dip in the green sauce!) and avacado salad.

https://www.daringgourmet.com/pollo-la-brasa-peruvian-roasted-chicken/

https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2012/08/peruvian-style-grilled-chicken-with-green-sauce-recipe.html

Stingerhook · May 16, 2018

Damn that looks good. Frankenstein doesn't look to shabby either.

Kanco Connection · May 16, 2018

Looks outstanding! Beautiful color and moist too. Nailed it. Thanks for posting.

charcoalwilly · May 16, 2018

Stingerhook said:
Damn that looks good. Frankenstein doesn't look to shabby either.

Hah! Frankenstein grill was one of the dumber things I’ve done. Tried to build it without any welding. Had to drill over 200 holes for bolts. Took an enternity.

mcyork28 · May 16, 2018

Chicken looks killer. Cool grill as well.

Titch · May 16, 2018

All looks good to me.
Time to do a re tighten of the bolts

BillN · May 16, 2018

Nice work on the cook and the cooker.

zippy12 · May 16, 2018

Amazing yard bird and grill...

robert-r · May 16, 2018

Great cook and cooker. Peruvian chicken is one of my all-time favorite chicken recipes.

ShadowDriver · May 16, 2018

There's a Peruvian Chicken place on Gibson over in Albuquerque.

Theirs is good. Yours looks outstanding!

I especially appreciate the recipes and suggestions.

Cook · May 17, 2018

Nothing about this matters as much as that green sauce. There is no substitute. It will make shoe leather taste good. The green sauce.

The f'n green sauce!

cowgirl · May 17, 2018

Looks delicious!

RemoGaggi · May 17, 2018

Chicken looks great, but how about some more pictures and features about the Frankenstein grill? I'm always interested in self-designed grills...

charcoalwilly · May 18, 2018

Cook said:
Nothing about this matters as much as that green sauce. There is no substitute. It will make shoe leather taste good. The green sauce.

The f'n green sauce!

Completely agree. The stuff is addictive. The Serious Eats recipe above is closest I’ve had to matching sauce at restaurant called Pio Pio back East. I do knock down the number of jalapeños for the kiddies from the recipe.

robert-r said:
Great cook and cooker. Peruvian chicken is one of my all-time favorite chicken recipes.

I have seen bunch of your posts on Peruvian chicken Robert. Tasty

RemoGaggi said:
Chicken looks great, but how about some more pictures and features about the Frankenstein grill? I'm always interested in self-designed grills...

I should probably do seperate post. Some good concepts, but lots of mistakes too. Maybe people can learn from my foolish errors :laugh:

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