Lemon Herb Grilled Chicken – Eat Yourself Skinny

This Lemon Herb Grilled Chicken is definitely made with only a few easy elements for a scrumptious, healthy meal! Packed with a lot taste because of tangy lemon juice, tons of garlic, and recent thyme!

This lemon herb grilled rooster is a recipe that has been on rotation in our house for over 10 years and I’ll inform you why. Simple, recent elements that take advantage of flavorful rooster! This lemon herb marinade is completely scrumptious made with a combination of olive oil, tangy lemon juice, tons of garlic together with recent herbs!  This lemon herb marinade additionally makes an incredible salad dressing as effectively!

Why You’ll Love this Recipe

• Super flavorful, versatile and straightforward to throw collectively.
• Only 5 easy elements you most likely have already got in your kitchen!
• This marinade additionally tastes nice on steak, fish or shrimp and works as a salad dressing.
• Great for weekly meal prep served over rice, with roasted veggies or on a salad.

Ingredients You’ll Need

This simple lemon herb rooster requires only a few easy elements that you simply most likely have already got at house in your pantry or fridge!  Here’s what you’ll want:

• rooster – this recipe calls for two kilos boneless rooster thighs (bone-in works too), however you could possibly additionally use boneless skinless rooster breasts and even rooster wings as effectively.
• olive oil – this helps infuse the flavors into the rooster and prevents it from sticking to the grill.  I like to make use of an excellent olive oil that doesn’t need to be costly, simply make certain it’s chilly-pressed and natural for probably the most taste.
• lemon juice – this provides such a vivid, recent style and also you’ll want about 2 lemons. Feel free so as to add in slightly lemon zest too if you’d like much more lemon taste!
• garlic – you need to use recent chopped garlic or minced garlic from the jar.
• recent herbs – recent thyme and rosemary actually add such a recent style to the rooster marinade, however you could possibly use dried thyme, dried rosemary and even dried oregano as effectively.
• salt + pepper – wanted to season the rooster and add taste.

How to Make Lemon Herb Chicken

1. Make the marinade.  In a small bowl or jar, whisk collectively the olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, recent herbs, salt and pepper till all mixed.
2. Prepare rooster.  Place rooster in a shallow dish or a 1-gallon sealable plastic bag and pour many of the lemon herb sauce over the rooster (I all the time recommend reserving slightly little bit of the sauce to brush on the rooster later whereas grilling!)
3. Marinate!  Place rooster within the fridge and let it marinate for not less than half-hour, however not than 2 hours (lemon may be very acidic and can start to breakdown the rooster’s texture so that you don’t wish to marinate this too lengthy).  When able to grill, take away rooster from the dish or bag, shake off any extra and discard leftover marinade.
4. Grill and serve.  Heat a grill or grill pan on medium warmth and brush grill with oil to forestall the rooster from sticking.  Grill the rooster 5 to six minutes on all sides or till cooked via and not pink (cooked rooster ought to have an inner temp of 165 levels). Remove rooster from grill and let it relaxation for five minutes earlier than serving.

Helpful Tips and Tricks

• Marinate the rooster for not less than half-hour, however not than 2 hours because the acidity from the lemon juice will breakdown the rooster’s exterior texture leading to mushy, robust rooster so be sure to don’t exceed 2 hours.
• Make certain so as to add slightly oil to the grill or grill pan in order that the rooster doesn’t stick.
• If you don’t wish to grill the rooster, you may bake it within the oven at 400 levels F for 22 to twenty-eight minutes, or till rooster is totally cooked via.
• Chicken ought to have an inner temp of 165 levels to make sure that it’s cooked via, however not dry.
• Reserve slightly little bit of marinade (earlier than it touches the rooster) to brush on it whereas the rooster is grilling for much more taste.
• This lemon herb marinade would style superb as a salad dressing as effectively!

How to Serve

Prepping and Storage

Leftovers will be saved in a sealed, hermetic container for 3 to 4 days within the fridge.  I like including this leftover rooster to my salads for straightforward lunches!  You can even freeze these rooster breasts for as much as 4 months within the freezer and defrost within the fridge in a single day earlier than reheating.  If you’re already utilizing rooster that has been beforehand frozen and thawed out, I don’t suggest freezing once more.

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