Good morning. I learned two great rules about grilling chicken from Chef Clare de Boer, who cooks with the kind of easygoing confidence I wish for all of us this weekend and always.
The first deals with the beginning of the process: when you put the meat on the fire for the first time, don’t sit with it. Let it sizzle and crust on the rack so that the skin doesn’t tear when you flip it. The second takes care of the end: let the meat rest with conviction, about a quarter of the time it spent on the grill, to ensure its full juiciness.
Apply those rules when you make Clare’s Grilled Chicken Skewers with Tarragon and Yogurt (above), and you’ll get your reward: a fantastically complex dinner of smoked and butter-kissed chicken; cooling, herbaceous sauce; and charred scallions that pair beautifully with toasted pita bread.
Remember those rules too if you’re making Tajín grilled chicken (as I’ve done about half a dozen times over the past few months), or huli huli chicken or yakitori. And if you’re transitioning to a different kind of poultry, be sure to use them in making these grilled turkey burgers, made extra juicy with some BBQ sauce and onion inside the patties and a mayonnaise-mix spread on the outside.
What else to cook this weekend? I would like these summer vegetables in spiced yogurt sauce for dinner, then a chocolate cherry cake for dessert. I’d like to make stir-fried beef and sugar snap peas, or one of these no-cook pasta sauces. Also sandwiches with tuna crunch and a terrine of gazpacho. I would like to eat buttermilk pancakes with nectarine and peach jam. And also BLT pasta. And then, for another dessert, one of these no-bake recipes, smart when it’s hot.
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