Grilled chicken in the oven on a spit whole with a crust

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make grilled chicken in the oven? Prepare the necessary ingredients. It is very important to choose the right chicken. Her weight should not be more than 1.5 kg. It is advisable to buy chilled, since it is difficult to judge the freshness and quality of meat from a frozen carcass. The chicken should be light pink in color, with a neutral smell. If you take poultry, it must be young (less than a year), otherwise it will not be suitable for baking.

2. Step 2:

   

   If the chicken is frozen, defrost the chicken in advance. Remove the packaging and put it in a container on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator a day before cooking. For pickling, take a bowl or a saucepan in which it will fit freely. The material from which it is made should not be oxidized. Enameled, plastic, ceramic and glass dishes are suitable. Rinse the chicken under running water, remove the insides and feathers, if any.

3. Step 3:

   

   Peel the garlic. Rinse it, dry it and grind it in a garlic press or, like me, grate it on a fine grater.

4. Step 4:

   

   Wipe the carcass with a paper towel so that there is no moisture left and it is better marinated. Thoroughly rub the chicken inside and out with salt, garlic and a mixture of spices. Cover the dishes in which the chicken will be marinated with cling film, lid or towel. Leave at room temperature for 15-20 minutes. The longer the chicken is marinated, the tastier and juicier it will turn out. I often leave it overnight.

6. Step 5:

   

   Turn on the oven to warm up to 180 degrees on the top-bottom mode. If there are a lot of large pieces of spices on top of the chicken, they can be removed so that they do not burn. Tie the chicken's legs together with a thread, and tie the wings so that they fit snugly to the carcass. This is necessary in order to keep the chicken compactly on the spit during rotation, and not cling to the walls of the oven. Especially if your chicken is bigger.

7. Step 6:

   

   Skewer the chicken along the spine. It is convenient to call your husband for help at this step (if you are a woman), since in order for the chicken to hold on better and not turn around, it is better to pierce a part of the carcass from the inside with a spit. Metal pins are provided on my spit for fixing the chicken. They pierce the carcass from above and below, then they are fixed with bolts.

8. Step 7:

   

   Turn the spit with the chicken in your hands and check that it is rigidly fixed and does not turn. Fix the skewer in the oven and turn on the grill mode. Bake the chicken until golden brown for about 1.5-2 hours. Choose the exact time and temperature according to your oven.