Cooking Outdoors

Cooking  Using  BBQ

Cooking outdoors is a good thing, keeping the kitchen clean and giving less smell to the house, and in spite of wet or dry weather, it can still be done.  Summer to winter cooking with BBQ is all right; it depends on the dish that is going to be cooked.

I had the experience to cook a whole chicken in the BBQ, and it worked out so well.  What I did, I wrapped a spiced-herbs whole chicken in a few layers of silver foil, and then I put on a baking tray.  I put on the hot BBQ that has a lid, cook with the lid on for an hour, switch off the BBQ but keep the cooked chicken in it for thirty minutes further.

The chicken was so tender, moist.  I served it with flatbread, salad and yoghurt.

More cooking ideas are using the BBQ, not only cooking sausages, steaks or lamb chops.  I may try to bake the Australian Dumper on it one day.

Cooking The Chicken

Wash and dry chicken no 16

Rub it with salt, oil and lime juice and mixed herbs: thyme, fennel seeds and crushed garlic

Wrap it with baking paper first, then layers of foil, place it on a baking tray, bake on a hot BBQ for one hour.  Switch off the BBQ, keep the chicken in it for another thirty minutes.

Left: cooked chicken in the foil  Right: Open the cooked chicken -

Carefully as it is hot.

The chicken is very tender, and there's a touch of smokiness, delicious.  Serve the chicken with salads, bread as you like.  

I did some flatbread which I cooked in the kitchen, and I served the chicken with them, along with herb yoghurt. 

The ingredients for the flatbread:  (approximation)

- 1 cup plain flour, salt and 1 tablespoon oil and 1/3 cup hot water

- Mix all together, to make a soft dough, knead it until smooth, rest it for a few hours

- Roll the bread dough, make it into small balls, then flatten them out, roll into very thin circles

- Cook on a hot griddle or pan until puffed a little, turn it over and cook this side for a minute further

- Transfer on a plate

- Do the rest until all finished

- Serve in the same day.

Flat Bread
makes 8

Serving baked chicken, with flatbread and yoghurt

The tasting of flatbread, herbs chicken and yoghurt

A healthy dish and efficient cooking for everyone at any time.

Thanks For Visiting

Until Next Post

Susy