We found a recipe for El Pollo Loco-style chicken and yesterday, we actually made it. And it was good! Really good! The chicken marinated for about 3 days although it didn’t need to as you can marinate for just 24 hours, but after those 3 days, we put the chicken on the grill. The trick for us was to use the “indirect heat” method of cooking chicken on a grill. This method basically has you turn on the heat on one half of the grill, but put the chicken you’re cooking on the non-heated side. It worked like a champ – we had the chicken cook for 4 rotations of 12 minutes each, and DAMN, so good. Can’t say this will keep us from going to El Pollo Loco in the future though – while it was a successful attempt, it’s a lot of time and work to make it. But very nice to know it’s do-able!
The source material, having been marinated in the El Pollo Loco recipe marinade
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Ready for cooking
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Necessary fuel for cooking
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Cooking the chicken with indirect flame method
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Making progress
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Finished product - pretty damn delicious and a very good El Pollo Loco approximation
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Also had corn on the cob, Mexican rice and black beans
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