Indirect Heat Gas Grill Chicken

03 prepare the grill for indirect cooking over medium heat 350 to 450 f.

Indirect heat gas grill chicken.

Well before you turn on that grill here is the golden rule of grilling. Grill the barbecue chicken. Do this by creating two heat zones. 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.

Grill the chicken pieces skin side down first over indirect medium heat with the lid closed until fully cooked turning once or twice. When temperature inside the grill reaches 400 f turn off one burner. Turn all burners on high and close the lid. If you are cooking something longer than 20 minutes then you need to use indirect cooking.

Look to indirect heat grilling when cooking large pieces of meat like whole chickens roasts or cedar plank fish. Prepare your grill for high indirect heat no coals or burners on directly under the bird. If not you can roast the chicken right away. Indirect heat grilling is usually done with the lid on to trap the heat inside the grill and you can add wood chips to the mix to turn your grill into a smoker and infuse the food with extra flavor.

04 brush the cooking grates clean. My husband said this was the best chicken he had ever had. So you have that new gas grill and you want to cook ribs or a whole chicken. Slow grilled chicken breasts with indirect heat for a hour gives you the most juicy and tender chicken that you have ever eaten.

Grill the marinated chicken thighs on a pre heated grill over medium heat for 15 minutes. Cook the chicken rotating the pieces 180 degrees every 15 minutes until an instant read thermometer inserted in the thickest part of the chicken. 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. For a gas grill leave one burner turned off.

Meanwhile prepare a gas grill for indirect heat. For a charcoal grill stack coals on one side of grill. The area over the turned off burner is the indirect heat section. Indirect cooking on a covered grill proves to be the ticket to success.