Grilled Spatchcock Chicken With A Marmalade Glaze

A spatchcock chicken is a perfect bird to cook on a grill, and summer is here so let’s do this. This grilled spatchcock chook recipe has a glorious orange Marmalade Glaze!

Grilled Spatchcock Chicken With Orange Marmalade Glaze.

Here we go with another grilling recipe folks, a spatchcock chicken is the perfect fodder for the grill. The orange marmalade glaze is the perfect sweet and sticky glaze for the bird too!

Parcel it up with some simply grilled asparagus which also has a great affinity with orange and you are good to go!

Orange and chicken work so well together. But they are flavours associated much more with the Chinese food, like in my carrot and ginger orange chicken.

This recipe is very much European in influence, with the sweet and bitter tones of orange marmalade singing through.

When it comes to orange marmalade use something that you like as it is the core flavour of this grilled chicken recipe.

As with many things it is difficult to find here in Hungary so I make my own, using this recipe from my mate Jo over at Every Nook and Cranny.

You really do need to marinade though, if at all possible try and keep your spatchcock chicken in the marinade overnight. Making sure you remove from the fridge so you are not putting a cold bird over hot coals.

How To Spatchcock Chicken.

This really is so simple it hurts, but you do need a tool… Some good poultry shears, they are much more robust than ordinary kitchen scissors.

They will munch straight through the bones, forget trying to do this with a knife.

1. Flip your bird upside down, so that the breast is on the table.
2. Turn the chicken so that the parsons nose, which is the little ‘ bump’ on the base of the bird that the tail feathers attach to.
3. Insert your poultry shears alongside the parsons nose and snip through to the neck cavity.
4. Repeat process #3 on the other side of the parsons nose.
5. Save this part of the carcass to make your own chicken stock!
6. Now flip the bird over and place the ball of your hand on the breastbone and push.
7. Be firm and you will hear a pop, then you have your spatchcock chicken.

That Orange Marmalade Glaze!

You all know I am fond of a sweet glaze on grilled chicken, in fact grilled anything! Whether it is this orange marmalade glaze, my Sriracha Glazed Grilled wings or indeed my lemon pepper grilled wings.

There is just something magical that happens when you put a sweet glaze over a fierce open heat.

Don’t confuse the black bits for burned, they are beautifully caramelised sugars. They have a bitter sweetness that you cannot emulate by cooking in any other way.

But because those sugars come from an orange marmalade they have that citrus back note too.

This grilled chicken recipe really does bode well if the rest of my grilling experiments go this way.

Go ahead, ditch the marmalade on your breakfast toast and do something much more interesting instead. This grilled spatchcock chicken with orange marmalade is a serious crowd pleaser!