Lemon and Garlic Grilled Chicken

This recipe is by far my favorite for grilled chicken. It's not a chicken that will need BBQ sauce or any other condiment that doesn't belong on chicken. This chicken is delicious. Even though a full breast is shown in the picture, I usually cut them into tenderloin sized pieces. Marinate the tenderloins to increase the delicious lemon/garlic flavor.


Lemon and Garlic Grilled Chicken
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Juice of 1 lemon, approximately 3 tablespoons
3 tablespoons olive oil
1 teaspoon minced garlic, about 2 medium cloves
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
1 pound chicken breasts (Cut really thick chicken breasts down to thin them out and make the pieces a little smaller so they absorb the marinade better - I trimmed and cut the breasts into tenderloin size pieces)

Combine all marinade ingredients. Place chicken in a ziploc bag and pour marinade over chicken. Seal bag and place in fridge overnight. (I only marinaded my thawed tenderloin sized pieces for 2hrs - worked great! I put them in a 9x13 and covered it with cellophane) Grill (or cook in frying pan). Serve with sides of your choice or cut into bite sized pieces and add to desired recipe.

Double the marinade and chicken and grill it all up and freeze the extras to use later. It would be great chicken for a salad, aunt renees, Hawaiian haystacks, pizzas, pastas, fettuccine alfredo etc... really any dinner that needs cooked chicken.

Recipe by MyKitchenCafe