BBQ Roast Chicken in half

Please follow the roast chicken instructions for preparation and then follow the cooking method below.

Cooking
You need a BBQ with a lid.

Turn on your gas BBQ burners, one side on full, one side on low heat.
Place the chicken on the low side, skin-side up.

If you have a charcoal BBQ, build up a good set of hot coals, then move them to one side and put the chicken on the other side.

Wait 45 minutes just like the oven roasted chicken and follow the same instructions as the normal roast chicken, ie. start checking if it looks golden brown and if so, turn the heat down for the last 15 minutes or so.

(Sometimes the chicken will release so much fat that it cacthes fire! Don't panic. If you are there then spray the fire with a bit of water in a mister. Safer still BBQ the chicken in a old baking tin, then the fat will not get onto the flames. Using the tin, add 10 minutes to the cooking as it protects the chicken at first from the heat.)

Turn off your BBQ at the end!