Brick Chicken

By Tara Noland on June 10, 2014 | Updated July 3, 2025

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Have you heard of this Brick Chicken?? I had but wasn’t quite sure what it was or how to cook the chicken using a brick??? I read about it, googling it. You take a whole chicken and place it breast side down. Then cut the backbone out by cutting through the ribs along each side. You then flatten the chicken down and trim up any excess bones. This process is called spatchcock.

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Brick Chicken by Noshing With The Nolands

Well, I didn’t have a whole chicken but gorgeous chicken legs with the back still attached. Thought we could use those instead. BBQing is a standard here in this household but I have to say I am bored with our old standby recipes. We need to change things up a bit with experimentation.

This experimentation was a huge success, yielding juicy flavorful chicken. We were lucky enough to find a few bricks in our backyard that worked perfectly too!! Clean them up, wrap them in foil and you are away to the races!!

A simple spice mixture, a few bricks and you are on your way to a gorgeous dinner!!

Brick Chicken Recipe

Tara Noland

A simple method of using bricks to hasten the cooking of the chicken to maintain it’s juiciness.

5 from 4 votes

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Prep Time 5

Cook Time 16

Total Time 21

Course Dinner

Cuisine American

Servings

Calories 299 kcal

Ingredients

4 Chicken Legs with the back intact
4 Red standard bricks wrapped in foil
1 tsp. basil
1 tsp. tarragon
2 tsp. garlic powder
1 tsp. onion salt
1 Tbsp. Montreal steak spice

Instructions

Mix all the seasoning together and run over the entire chicken legs on both sides. Heat BBQ to medium and grill skin side down with a brick on each piece and close the lid. Allow to cook for 7-8 min. Flip the chicken and replace the brick. Continue cooking for another 7-8 min. until the chicken is cooked through. Let rest for 5 min. and serve.

Nutrition

Serving: 1Calories: 299kcalCarbohydrates: 5gProtein: 22gFat: 21gSaturated Fat: 6gPolyunsaturated Fat: 4gMonounsaturated Fat: 9gTrans Fat: 0.1gCholesterol: 120mgSodium: 589mgPotassium: 357mgFiber: 1gSugar: 0.2gVitamin A: 333IUVitamin C: 2mgCalcium: 67mgIron: 3mg

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