I often say a fantastic dinner can be with a few ingredients, like my Grilled Lemon Chicken. Grilled Lemon Chicken might sound passè, but with a bit of love, it becomes elevated yet accessible. The secret is grilling fresh lemons to create complex flavors for our marinade.
For the longest time, I wasn’t a chicken fan. I found most chicken to be bland, dry, and tasteless. After some research, I discovered that my dry chicken was caused for several reasons.
- I was using chicken breast, and although it’s leaner & “healthier,” I find it’s not as flavorful as chicken thigh.
- Like so many, I wasn’t taking the extra few minutes to marinate my chicken.
- Salmonella is a serious concern, but I find that fear causes a lot of people to overcook their chicken. According to most, chicken must only be cooked at 165° F. That means I usually cook it to around 160° F and rely on carryover cooking to sail the chicken past the 165° F mark.
Grilled Lemon Chicken Marinade
The easiest thing I do to create flavorful chicken is to make a quick marinade. Sometimes, hearing the word marinade, people think it takes long hours or days to marinate meat. The good news is that chicken doesn’t take long to absorb unique flavors. Usually, I only marinate my chicken for 30 minutes to 2 hours any longer, and the meat gets chewy.
Usually, any marinade I make consists of an acid to help tenderize the meat. That is where the grilled lemons play a crucial part in my marinade. I lightly spray the lemons with Chosen Foods avocado oil and grill them (on my Bull Grill) until they are lightly charred. Grilling the lemons will add tremendous complexity to the lemons and elevate our grilled lemon chicken.
Grilling lemons or other citrus can also be a fantastic way to create cocktails, mocktails, and other recipes. Many times, when a recipe calls for regular citrus, I’ll grill it and wow my friends and family.
Easy Grilled Lemon Chicken
Equipment
- Bull Grillwww.bullbbq.com
Ingredients
- 1 pound Chicken Thigh boneless skinless
- 1/4 cup Mustard
- 1/4 cup Lemon Juice grilled & strained
- 1 tsp Herbs de Provence
- 2 tbsp Salt
- 1/4 cup Chosen Foods Avocado Oil
- 1 tbsp Garlic Powder
- 1 tsp White Pepper
Instructions
- In a large bowl combine grilled lemon juice, herbs, salt, garlic, and white pepper. Whisk the ingredients together and slowly drizzle in all the avocado oil.
- Toss the chicken in the marinade and allow to marinate for 30 minutes to 60 minutes covered in the fridge. That is plenty of time for the chicken to absorb the flavors. Any longer and the meat might become tougher because of the acidity in the lemon.
- Place chicken on a medium-high preheated Bull Grill. Grill each side of the chicken for approximately 4-5 minutes. Remove from the heat once the chicken has reached an internal temperature of 165°.
- Let the chicken rest for 5 minutes and serve with grilled lemon halves.
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