Best Grilled Lemon Pepper Chicken Breasts With Thyme Gremolata Recipes

LEMON AND THYME GRILLED CHICKEN BREASTS

Steps:

• Place chicken breasts between two sheets of parchment or plastic wrap. Using a mallet or rolling pin, pound each to an even thickness of 1/2 inch. Do not make them any thinner or they could dry out.
• Place chicken in a large bowl and toss with salt, pepper, thyme, garlic and the zest and juice of 1 lemon. Mix in olive oil. Cover and refrigerate 1 to 2 hours. Remove chicken from fridge while you heat the grill.
• Light the grill, building a hot fire, or heat your gas grill to high. Once grill is fully heated, brush breasts lightly with olive oil and place chicken on the grill. Cook until undersides are browned and chicken is about halfway cooked, 3 to 5 minutes. Flip breasts and grill until cooked through, 3 to 5 minutes more.
• Transfer chicken to a platter. Drizzle with oil and garnish with additional lemon juice, olive oil and basil or mint leaves.

GRILLED LEMON PEPPER CHICKEN BREASTS WITH THYME GREMOLATA

Steps:

• Whisk the lemon juice, pepper, and salt.
• Add the oil in a stream whisking until the marinade is emulsified.
• Pound breasts until about 1/4" thick.
• Place marinade and breasts in a resealable plastic bag and marinate in the refrigerator at least 30 minutes (can be overnight as well).
• Prepare grill.
• Mix all ingredients for the gremolata.
• Grill on an oiled rack about 5-6 inches over the heat until cooked through.
• About 2-4 minutes per side.
• Can be garnished with lemon slices and sprigs of thyme.

GRILLED LEMON CHICKEN

Steps:

• Whisk together the lemon juice, olive oil, salt, pepper, and thyme. Pour over the chicken breasts in a nonreactive bowl. Cover and marinate in the refrigerator for 6 hours or overnight.
• Heat a charcoal grill and cook the chicken breasts for 10 minutes on each side, until just cooked through. Cool slightly and cut diagonally in 1/2-inch-thick slices.
• Skewer with wooden sticks.

GRILLED LEMON PEPPER CHICKEN BREASTS WITH THYME GREMOLATA

Steps:

• In a bowl whisk together lemon juice, pepper, and salt to taste and add oil in a stream, whisking until marinade is emulsified. With a rolling pin or smooth side of a meat pounder flatten chicken 1/4 inch thick between sheets of plastic wrap. In a large resealable plastic bag marinate chicken in marinade, chilled, 30 minutes.
• Prepare grill.
• Grill chicken on an oiled rack set 5 to 6 inches over glowing coals until just cooked through, about 2 minutes on each side.
• Serve chicken sprinkled with gremolata and garnished with lemon and thyme.
• Make gremolata:
• In a small bowl stir together gremolata ingredients.

PAN-GRILLED CHICKEN WITH GREMOLATA

Steps:

• Heat a grill pan over medium-high heat. Remove the tenderloins from the chicken breast and set aside for another use. Brush the chicken lightly with oil, then season the skin with salt and pepper. Place the chicken on the grill skin-side down, and cook until the edges turn opaque, about 6 minutes. (To get nifty cross-hatch grill marks, about half way through cooking reposition the breast about 45 degrees from their original position.) Season with salt and pepper, and turn chicken over, and cook until firm to the touch, about 6 more minutes.
• While the chicken cooks, make the gremolata: Chop the garlic, add the salt, and continue chopping to make a paste. In a small bowl, stir the garlic together with the lemon zest, parsley and olive oil Season with pepper, to taste.
• Slice the breasts, against the grain and serve with the gremolata.

LEMON PEPPER CHICKEN BREASTS ON A BED OF RICE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350.
• Sprinkle lemon pepper on both sides of breasts. Sprinkle the lemon pepper to your own taste.
• Using a non-greased 9"x13" glass baking dish place the chicken, and melted margarine (or butter) inside. Cover.
• Bake for 30 Minutes.
• Remove from oven. Remove chicken and set aside. Add one cup of long grain white rice, one can of chicken broth (or equal amount of bouillion). Stir together and cover tightly with foil.
• Put pan back in the oven.
• Bake 30 Minutes.
• Remove from oven, and place chicken back inside.
• Cook for another 15 minutes.
• This update to the recipe (11/19/13) brings it back to its roots and eliminates the problems people were having with under cooked rice/overcooked chicken.