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Grilled chicken breasts with roasted carrots, rice

Grilled Chicken Breast Recipe with Lemon, Garlic, and Rosemary

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Description

Sauce based on a recipe from SeriousEats.com


Ingredients

Scale
  • 4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
  • 2 lemons
  • 6 Tbsp olive oil
  • 3 medium cloves garlic, finely chopped
  • 3 Tbsp chopped fresh rosemary
  • Salt and fresh-ground pepper to taste

Ingredients for lemon grilled chicken breasts


Instructions

  • Preheat your grill. We used one chimney-full of charcoal and put it under half the grate of our kettle grill. If using gas, turn it up to medium-high or high. 
  • Make cutlets of the breasts by laying each one flat and slicing it, halfway through its thickness, with a very sharp knife. Be careful!
  • Make the seasoning/dressing by—in a large bowl— whisking together the oil, enough juice from the lemons to make about 2 tablespoons, the rosemary, and garlic. Season to taste with salt and pepper. 
  • Pour about half of the dressing into a small bowl and reserve it for topping the chicken after grilling. 

reserving some dressing for later

  • Place the chicken cutlets in the large bowl and toss with the sauce until everything is evenly covered. 

Tossing chicken with lemon dressing

  • Place all the cutlets on the grill and start to cook. Flip them all about every minute and a half. 
  • After flipping each cutlet twice, start taking temperatures between flips. Use your ThermoPop 2 to measure each cutlet’s internal temperature. Look for the lowest temperature in each breast.

Temping grilled chicken

  • When the lowest temperature in each cutlet is 157°F (69°C), move it to the cool side of the grill or remove it from the grill to a serving platter. 

Dressing the grilled breasts with lemon sauce

  • When all the cutlets are done, pour the reserved (non-chicken-exposed) sauce over them.
  • Serve!

Grilled chicken breast cutlets