Alida’s Grilled Boneless Chicken Breasts. When it comes to grilling, chicken breasts can be problematic, especially boneless, skinless chicken breasts. We would normally salt grilled chicken breasts, right? You don't need to do that if you brine.
This easy, healthy recipe produces tender and plump marinated chicken breasts that are grilled to golden perfection.
Chicken breasts are arguably one of the most difficult of the standard meats to grill—so often, they come out dry, chewy, and cardboard-y.
Grilled chicken breast doesn't have to turn out dry and chewy.
You can cook Alida’s Grilled Boneless Chicken Breasts using 9 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Alida’s Grilled Boneless Chicken Breasts
- It's 6 of Boneless/skinless chicken breasts.
- It's 1 cup of Greek yogurt.
- You need 1 tbsp of lime zest.
- You need 1 tbsp of lime juice.
- It's 1 of Serrano pepper minced.
- It's 2 of garlic cloves minced.
- Prepare 1 tbsp of Cumin.
- You need 1 tsp of Paprika.
- You need 1 tsp of Salt.
The secrets: pounding the meat, brining it, and cooking over a medium-high fire. Skinless, boneless chicken breast has become a mainstay of the American diet. As an added bonus, a serving of grilled, skinless, boneless chicken breast contains no saturated fats — the "bad" fats that raise the levels of "bad" cholesterol in your blood, according to the American Heart Association. These grilled boneless chicken thighs are juicy, tender and full of flavor.
Alida’s Grilled Boneless Chicken Breasts instructions
- Rinse the chicken breasts under cold running water and then blot dry with paper towels.
- Combine next seven ingredients.
- Put breasts in shallow glass baking dish and cover with the yogurt mixture.
- Marinade chicken in mixture for at least 30 minutes.
- Heat grill to high, clean the grates before they get too hot and oil the grates.
- Place the breasts on the hottest part of the grill and don’t touch them for about 2 – 3 minutes.
- Grill:.
- Rotate breasts 45 degrees to create some grill marks; Grill for an additional 2 to 4 minutes and turn them over; Grill for 2 more minutes and then rotate again 45 degrees to make those grill marks; Continue grilling for another 2 to 4 minutes. Check the internal temperature with an instant-read thermometer (Target temp is 160 degrees).
- Remove the chicken breasts from the grill and place on a plate..
Their easy prep makes them perfect for outdoor entertaining. For these grilled boneless chicken thighs, I made a simple marinade with paprika, garlic, salt, pepper, olive oil and finely chopped parsley. Without skin or bone, this lean cut cooks so quickly that it's almost impossible to get it to taste both grilled and glazed. To produce great grilled flavor and glaze the meat in a relatively short period of time, we brine the meat while the grill heats to season it and keep it moist during cooking. Grilled chicken breasts can be a juicy, well-seasoned meal—or a dry, flavorless regret.