Grilled Chicken

This is my husband's favorite recipe. He likes gilled chicken a lot, so I make it a lot!

Ingredients

• 1 (3 to 4 lb) roasting chicken
• Salt
• Freshly ground black pepper
• 1 lemon, halved
• 2 tablespoons (1/4 stick) butter, melted
• Red chili powder
• Red chili flakes 

Directions

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.

If the chicken is frozen one keep it in hot water with salt for about 2 hrs. Remove the chicken giblets. Rinse the chicken properly. Remove excess fat and leftover pin feathers. Pat the outside dry. 


Now mix the butter, chili powder, chili flakes, black pepper and salt together. Heat the mixture for 30 seconds (if the butter is already melted, no need to heat it). Add the lemon juice in it.


Brush the inside and the outside of the chicken generously with the butter mixture and sprinkle again with salt and pepper. 


Roast the chicken for 1 1/2 hours, or until the juices run clear when you cut between a leg and thigh. You can turn the chicken one after 45mins. Remove the chicken and slice it onto a platter and serve.

Note: Serve it with onions soaked in vinegar. Cut onion rings and dip them in about 1 cup of white distilled or chili vinegar for 3- 4 hrs. While serving discard the vinegar and add salt and red chili powder in the onion rings. Mix and serve.