Grilled Galletti

Name: Grilled Galletti
Yield: Serves 2 generously
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon chopped rosemary; 1 teaspoon or so tabasco sauce; 1½ dried red chilli with seeds, chopped; 4 tablespoons olive oil; 2 garlic cloves, peeled and squashed with the flat of a knife; 1 fresh bay leaf, torn in half; 2 galletti (baby chickens/poussins), 460 g (1 lb ¼ oz) each; juice of 1 lemon

Preparation info

Serves
2
generously

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Limoncello and Linen Water

By Tessa Kiros

Published 2012

About

These are tender, marinated poussins that are cooked under the oven grill. Not too chilli or herby, but delicate and just the right flavour. You can cook them on a barbecue if you like.

Ingredients

2 galletti (baby chickens/poussins), 460 g (1 lb ¼ oz) each
juice of 1 lemon
4

Europe
Italy
Main course
Gluten-free
Mediterranean

Method

Cut the galletti down the backbone and open out to flatten. Rinse and pat dry with paper towels. Salt and pepper both sides, then lay them in an oven dish large enough to take them side by side.

Mix the lemon juice, olive oil, chilli, Tabasco sauce and rosemary together in a bowl and pour over the galletti. Tuck the bay leaf and garlic in between. Massage the flavourings into the gallet