How to Grill Chicken Breasts
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Grilled Chicken Recipes
They cook in minutes and can be marinated, sauced up, or topped with your favorite ingredients to create a new taste sensation every time you cook them. And compared to some other meals, they are still an affordable way to serve something delicious for dinner.
I've included the basic recipe for grilled chicken breasts and assembled a list of luscious links to some of the best grilled chicken recipes that I've found online.
I've also included some information about my favorite grill for cooking chicken, the Weber 386002 Q-100 Portable Gas Grill, along with some fabulous marinade cookbooks and gourmet sauces you might like to try on your chicken.
Photo appears courtesy of bucklava. It was found through a creative commons search and contains the recipe for grilled Jamaican Jerk chicken breasts.
How to Grill Chicken Breasts
Basic Grilled Chicken Recipe
This is a simple basic (but still delicious) recipe for grilling chicken breasts. If you'd like to use barbeque sauce on your chicken to add more flavor, follow this recipe but wait to add the sauce until just before it is cooked through to prevent the sauce from burning.If you prefer to use a marinade, that should be done prior to cooking. After you've marinated the chicken breasts according to your recipe, (or bottle directions) you can cook the breasts as follows.
What You'll Need
Figure on serving one or two whole chicken breasts per person.
Boneless Chicken Breasts
Olive Oil
Salt and Pepper
*A Hot Grill
Directions
Pre heat your charcoal or gas grill to medium-high heat.
Rub Olive oil over both sides of the chicken breasts.
Sprinkle with salt and pepper to taste.
Place chicken breasts on the grill.
Grill until just cooked through, about 5 or 6 minutes per side- depending on thickness of breasts.
Remove from grill and serve immediately.
Enjoy!
Photo appears courtesy of ScottFeldstein and was found through a creative commons search for commercial use. (Photo link contains a chicken marinade recipe)
How to Grill Chicken Breasts Recipes
Grilled Chicken Recipes
- Grilled Skinless Chicken Breast - Recipe File - Cooking For Engineers
- Step by step recipe instructions for grilled skinless chicken breast complete with photographs and reader comments and discussion
- Kalyn's Kitchen: How to Make Juicy Grilled Chicken Breasts That Are Perfect Every Time
- South Beach Diet Cooking and Recipe Blog
Perfect Everytime Grilled Chicken Breasts - Grilling Chicken Breasts - Pound it flat, brine it and grill it hot and fast
- The secret to a flavorful and moist chicken breast is to pound it to an even thickness, brine it and grilling hot and fast.
- HowStuffWorks "Grilling Food"
- Grilling is an easy way to prepare your favorite foods. Learn how to grill meat, chicken, fish, and vegetables with simple instructions and recipes.
- Cooks.com - Recipes - Marinated Chicken Breast Grilled
- How to Grill chicken Breasts
- Best Grilled Chicken Recipe
- When it comes to grilled chicken I like to keep things easy and quick so I like to use thinly sliced chicken cutlets because nothing cooks faster on the grill than a thin chicken breast cutlet.
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Grilll Chicken Breast Indoors
Lodge Logic Pre-Seasoned Square Grill Pan
Lodge Logic L8SGP3 Pre-Seasoned Square Grill Pan
Amazon Price: $20.97 (as of 02/13/2012)![]()
* Square cast-iron grill pan with ribbed bottom for low-fat cooking
* Pre seasoned and ready to use; electrostatic spray of vegetable oil evenly baked into surface
* Sturdy handle with hole for convenient hanging when not in use
* Hand wash only; oven safe to 500 degrees F
* Measures 10-1/2 by 10-1/2 by 1-3/4 inches; lifetime warranty
Indoor Grilling Recipes
Indoor Grilling: 50 Recipes for Electric and Stovetop Grills and Smokers
Indoor Grilling: 50 Recipes for Electric and Stovetop Grills and Smokers
Amazon Price: $8.00 (as of 02/13/2012)![]()
With the commercial success of many indoor grills and grill pans from big names such as Krups, Swissmar, Calaphon, and of course George Foreman, indoor grilling has swept into the mainstream as never before. Indoor grilling is the new, savvy way to cook a meal. Grilling is a healthy-and inexpensive-style of cooking, and this book is a great source of delicious grilling recipes created specifically for the indoor grill or stovetop smoker, on any budget. Cooking techniques for indoor smokers, along with a mouthwatering range of grilling and smoking recipes, bring the flavors of the grill into the kitchen.
Barbecue! Bible : Sauces, Rubs, and Marinades, Bastes, Butters, and Glazes
Add some spice to your grilled chicken breasts!
Barbecue! Bible : Sauces, Rubs, and Marinades, Bastes, Butters, and Glazes
Amazon Price: $4.00 (as of 02/13/2012)![]()
Steven Raichlen is the world's leading authority on international barbecue. The recipes in this book are finger-licking good...try them all!"
-Rich Davis, Creator of K.C. Masterpiece Barbecue Sauce
Grilled Chicken Marinade Recipes
Taste Tempting Marinade Recipes for Your Grilled Chicken
- Cooks.com - Recipes - Grilled Chicken Marinade
- Grilled Chicken Marinade Recipes
- Oregano Marinated Grilled Chicken
- Recipes, cooking techniques, and news, updated daily. Devoted to the pleasure of food and drink.
- Grilled Chicken Breast with Lime Marinade
- This recipe for Grilled Chicken Breast with Lime Marinade is quick, easy and very good - from Teri's Kitchen.
- Armenian Herb Marinade Grilled Chicken Breasts Recipe | Recipezaar
- Armenian Herb Marinade Grilled Chicken Recipe
- Recipe - Marinade for Grilled Chicken
- Chicken marinade recipe for Texas Cooking
Do You Cook on a Q?
Weber Q Grill Great for Grilling Chicken and More!
Cast-aluminum lid and body with glass-reinforced nylon frame
8,500-BTU stainless-steel burner; push-button ignition; adjustable burner valve
Porcelain-enameled cast-iron cooking grates; drip pan; weather-resistant handle
Measures 16 by 27 by 23-1/2 inches with lid open; 5-year limited warranty
Weber 386002 Q 100 Portable Propane Gas Grill
Amazon Price: $123.00 (as of 02/13/2012)![]()
Don't let the small size of this portable grill fool you, we've been cooking for a family of 4 on it for several years now and we love it!
Lawry's Premade Marinades
Try All the Lawry's Premade Marinades for Delicious Grilled Chicken
Safety Information
Refridgerate after opening. Do not reuse.
Ingredients
Water, Lemon Juice, Distilled Vinegar, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Salt, Modified Food Starch, Garlic, Spices (Including Black Pepper, Oregano, Thyme, and Paprika), Dried Onion, Dried Tomato Concentrate, Tabasco Brand Dry Seasoning (Aged Red Pepper, Vinegar and Salt), Xanthan Gum (For Consistency), Potassium Sorbate, Sodium Benzoate and Calcium Disodium Edta (Used to Protect Quality).
Directions
For best results, pour marinade over meat, chicken, fish or vegtables. Cover and refridgerate at least 30 minutes-longer for fuller flavor. Grill, broil or bake. Brush on additional marinade during cooking for extra flavor. Discard excess used marinade do not reuse.
Home Made Barbeque Sauce Recipes
Barbecue Sauce Recipes for Delicious Grilled Chicken
- Homemade Barbeque Sauce from Fresh Tomatoes
- PickYourOwn.org's Guide to How to Make Homemade Barbecue Sauce (aka, catsup) - fully illustrated, with complete, simple recipe and directions. If you can't make and can barbecue sauce after reading this web page, then you're truly hopeless!
- Barbecue Sauce Recipes - Recipes for every kind of barbecue sauce you can imagine from traditional to fruit, mustard and vinegar sauces.
- Recipes for every kind of barbecue sauce you can imagine from traditional tomato to fruit, mustard and vinegar sauces.
- Make BBQ Sauce--Here's the Recipe
- Try this recipe: mix catsup, steak sauce, vinegar, and brown sugar to create a super BQ sauce for ribs, steaks, and burghers. You can make this sauce as easy and inexpensive present for Fathers' Day and other occasions.
- How to make Barbecue (BBQ) Sauce
- A recipe for a great barbecue sauce.
- SHACK Secret Famous Barbeque (BBQ) Sauce (Vinegar Based Recipe)
- This is the original and famous SHACK barbeque (BBQ) sauce recipe used by the SHACK restaurant in Arkansas. Tasty, Tangy and unforgettable BQ.
Grilled Chicken Breast Blog Posts
Find Grilled Chicken Articles and Recipes
Find more recipes at the following blogs.
If you find one you like be sure to bookmark it. This list gets updated daily!
- What's Cooking This Week?
- Heat a grill pan over medium-high heat and coat lightly with oil. Pound chicken thin. Mix salt, pepper, and thyme with 1½ tbsp fig jam. Brush half the mixture on chicken breasts and grill until just cooked through and browned on both sides.
- Grilled Herbed Chicken, Smoked Cheddar and amber beer sauce, tossed with cavatappi
- Marinate chicken breasts in olive oil, dry herbs and garlic for 4-6 hours prior. 2. Season chicken breasts on both sides and grill on stovetop grill or outdoor grill turning occasionally until done, 160F internal temp. Let cool. 4.
- Heat Things Up In The Kitchen With A Romantic Meal
- Boneless, Skinless Chicken Breasts (3 oz.), pounded 6" wide 1. Drop the pasta into a pot of boiling salted water and cook until "al dente". (approx. 8 minutes) 2. Season the chicken breasts evenly (one side only) with salt and pepper.
- New dish, old favorite: Grilled chicken with pear and kale
- Coat the chicken breasts evenly and allow to marinate for at least 1 hour and up to 1 day. Have a pre-heated, hot grill seasoned with oil. Wipe away the marinade and grill evenly on both sides marking them and cooking the chicken to an internal ...
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Please Note
Beer Can Chicken and 74 Other Offbeat Recipes for the Grill
Try Something Different Tonight!
Beer-Can Chicken: And 74 Other Offbeat Recipes for the Grill
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From Publishers Weekly
After such all-encompassing efforts as The Barbecue! Bible and How to Grill, Raichlen turns his attention to a single and hilarious style of preparation, one based on an inspired theory: if there is anything a guy loves more than his grill, his brew and his gadgets, it is the opportunity to combine the three into a succulent main course. The basic technique is simplicity itself, boosted by just enough schoolboy rudeness to make it irresistible. Take one whole chicken, insert half a can of a favorite beer into its cavity, then prop it up on the BBQ. The can, in combination with the drumsticks, forms a tripod that keeps the bird upright, allowing the skin to achieve a fine crispness even as the internal steamer flavors the bird and eliminates the need for basting. A cornucopia of rubs, marinades, and beer-can fillers provides for more recipe variations than one would sanely care to attempt (massage the chicken in dill, sugar, garlic and mustard, pour a little Scandinavian liquor in with the ale and, voil%uFFFD Chicken Aquavit). For teetotalers, there are sauces made from cola, ginger ale, peach nectar or lemonade, each with the appropriate can of soft drink inserted into its awaiting fowl. He does include some recipes that might be better in theory than practice, such as the Quail on a Throne, which involves small cans of prune juice and a Cinnamon-Prune sauce. Subtle safety tips are proffered (Never grill a bird on an unopened can!).
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Can't You Smell It?
What's Your Favorite Marinade or Sauce for Grilled Chicken Breasts
Please share the recipe to your favorite marinade or sauce for grilling chicken breasts. We love finding new tasty ways to serve chicken for dinner!
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CharlieHawks
Feb 13, 2012 @ 8:28 am | delete
- I'm the type of cook that burns toast. However, with your expert advice I think that I can handle grilled chicken. Great Lens... Keep up the good work
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Tipi
Feb 12, 2012 @ 2:19 pm | delete
- Oh Robin, I really should know better than stopping by yummy food lenses when I haven't had lunch yet. I can almost smell the chicken cooking on the grill. :)
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GeniePark
Feb 10, 2012 @ 3:22 pm | delete
- I just love grilled chicken breasts. The key of any good grill food is good marinade.
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nyclittleitaly Feb 10, 2012 @ 2:49 pm | delete
- You got me so hungry for chicken now.
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naheedahsan
Feb 10, 2012 @ 9:26 am | delete
- A great lens with some useful advice, i like to try some...
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BradKamer Feb 9, 2012 @ 7:00 pm | delete
- Grilled chicken breast can be used so many different ways. As a time saver, I like to marinade mine with italian dressing and seal in a ziplock for few hours. I like this lens, it is "back to basics" but a very useful reminder! Well done.
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EdwardJames81
Feb 9, 2012 @ 8:21 am | delete
- I find dousing the chicken breast with a little water whilst it is cooking stops the meat from drying out. A great lens with some useful advice.
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stewarc6
Feb 8, 2012 @ 2:59 pm | delete
- I can never make my chicken look lightly browned on both sides while being tender in the middle. Next time I will try and grill it your way, thanks for the grilling tips!
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jercow75
Feb 5, 2012 @ 11:01 pm | delete
- Nice lens. You've helped me plan dinner for the weekend.
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opheliakeith
Feb 4, 2012 @ 12:39 pm | delete
- There's nothing like mango chicken on an outdoor grill. Yum!
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RandomChuck
Jan 31, 2012 @ 4:03 pm | delete
- I've been using a George Foreman grill for a long time. This makes me want get a little more creative. Great lens.
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Pangionedevelopers
Jan 27, 2012 @ 10:45 pm | delete
- wow ,great job
gonna sit down and dig in here for more information
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canoz
Jan 27, 2012 @ 10:20 pm | delete
- I've never considered indoor grilling. Being in Australia we have a BBQ on the back verandah always ready to go! It gives any meat the best flavour. My kids beg for 'plain chicken' so they can load on the cranberry! I'm keen to try a homemade BBQ sauce though so I'll bookmark to follow this up! Thank you!
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APackageAtTheDoor
Jan 22, 2012 @ 5:56 pm | delete
- We really love Hawaiian Huli Huli Chicken for grilling although Greek Chicken with lemon and oregano is a great grilling marinade too. Nice lens, thanks!
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