Lemon grilled chicken

4 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
½ cup Lemon juice
1 tablespoon Sugar
¼ cup Olive oil
1 Bay leaf
½ teaspoon Salt
½ teaspoon Basil; dried
½ teaspoon Poultry seasoning
¼ teaspoon Black pepper; coarsely ground
3 pounds Chicken; cut in quarters

Directions

In a small saucepan, combine lemon juice, suga,r olive oil, bay leaf, salt, basil, poultry seasoning and pepper. Place over low heat and cook, stirring, 2 to 3 minutes. Cool to room temperature.

Place chicken, skin-side down, in a single layer in a 13 by 9 inch baking dish. Pour lemon-juice mixture over chicken. Let stand at room temperature 2 to 3 hours. Prepare chicken, skin-side down, on grill 4 to 6 inches above heat. Grill 7 minutes or until browned.

Brush with marinade. Turn skin-side up. Grill about 7 minutes. Turn and brush with marinade. Continue grilling white meat about 10 minutes longer, dark meat 15 to 20 minutes longer, turning and basting with marinade frequently.

Makes 4 servings.

Recipe by: Chicken Cookery by Ceil Dyer, 1983 Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #694 by Kathy Meade <kmeade@...> on Jul 27, 1997

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