Chicken grill in oven on spit whole with crust

6 servings
3 hours

How to make a chicken grill in the oven? Prepare the necessary ingredients. It is very important to choose the right chicken. Her weight should be no more than 1. 5 kg. It is advisable to buy chilled, since it is difficult to judge the freshness and quality of meat by frozen carcass. The chicken should be a light pink color, with a neutral smell. If you take poultry, it should be young (less than a year) or it won't be suitable for baking.

If the chicken is frozen, defrost the chicken beforehand. Remove the package and put it in the container on the lower shelf of the refrigerator a day before cooking. To marinate, take a bowl or saucepan in which it will fit freely. The material from which it is made should not be oxidized. Enameled, plastic, ceramic and glassware are suitable. Rinse the chicken under running water, remove the insides and feathers if available.

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

Wipe the carcass with a paper towel so that there is no moisture left and it is better seasoned. Rub the chicken thoroughly inside and out with salt, garlic and a spice mixture. Cover the utensils in which the chicken will marinate with cling film, lid or towel. Leave at room temperature for 15-20 minutes. The longer the chicken will marinate, the tastier and juicier it will turn out. I often leave for the night.

Turn on to heat the oven to 180 degrees in top-to-bottom mode. If there are many large pieces of spices on top of the chicken, they can be removed so that they do not burn. Tie the legs of the chicken together with a thread, and tie the wings so that they fit tightly to the carcass. This is necessary in order for the chicken to hold compactly on the spit during rotation, and not cling to the walls of the oven. Especially if your chicken is larger.

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

Turn the skewer with the chicken in hand and check that it is rigidly fixed and does not rotate. Secure the spit in the oven and turn on the grill mode. Bake the chicken until golden brown for about 1. 5-2 hour. Choose the exact time and temperature by your oven.