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Lemon-Lime Lacquered Grilled Chicken (Inihaw Na Manok)
Often referred to as Filipino chicken barbecue, inihaw na manok (which translates simply as “grilled chicken”) commonly includes multiple sweet ingredients, the most intriguing being lemon-lime soda such as Sprite or 7Up. With sweetness tempered by tangy vinegar, salty soy sauce and savory garlic and black pepper, the marinade infuses bone-in, skin-on chicken parts and produces nicely lacquered skin. Gas grills vary in heat output; check the browning on the chicken when you uncover the grill for the first basting—if the bottoms threaten to scorch, shut off the burners under the chicken. If you cook both breasts and legs, make sure to take the internal temperatures of the different parts and remove the pieces as they are done cooking, as white meat is done at about 160°F and dark meat at about 175°F.
4
Servings
Don’t flip the chicken or place the pieces directly over the fire until final the minutes of cooking. The basting sauce contains a good dose of sugar and will burn if it gets too much direct heat.
50 minutes
Plus marinating
Ingredients
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¾
cup cider vinegar
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½
cup ketchup
Directions
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01In a blender, combine the vinegar, ketchup, soy sauce, sugar, garlic, bay, peppercorns and 1½ teaspoons salt. Blend until well combined and the bay leaves are broken into tiny bits, 15 to 30 seconds. Pour the mixture into a large bowl, then stir in the soda.
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GET DIGITAL & PRINTYou say to "simmer" marinade to make the sauce, but the chicken has marinated in it. Doesn't it have to boil before it is safe to eat?
A little too tart on the glaze. I'd up the sugar from 6 Tbsp to a full 1/2 cup. With that being said, I did adjust the recipe (I'm Filipino) and used sugar cane vinegar, Silver Swan soy sauce + banana ketchup vs. the cider & regular ketchup so that may have contributed to the difference. I thought the grilling method was stellar though.
Stellar!