Grilled Chicken Breasts with Lemon and Thyme Recipe at Cooking.com

By pattie_d

A bold mixture of red-pepper flakes, garlic, thyme, lemon juice, and olive oil serves as a spicy marinade for bone-in chicken breasts. If you want your chicken spicier still, increase the red pepper or leave the breasts in the marinade for an hour or two.

Ingredients

• 1/2 tablespoons lemon juice
• 1/4 teaspoon dried thyme
• 1/2 teaspoon dried red-pepper flakes
• 1 clove garlic, minced
• 1/4 cup olive oil
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon fresh-ground black pepper
• 4 bone-in chicken breasts (about 2-1/4 pounds in all)

Details

Cooking time 25mins
Adapted from cooking.com

Preparation

Step 1

Light the grill or heat the broiler. In a shallow dish, combine the lemon juice with the thyme, red-pepper flakes, garlic, oil, salt, and black pepper. Coat the chicken with the mixture.

Grill the chicken breasts over moderately high heat or broil them for 8 to 10 minutes. Turn and cook until the chicken is just done, about 10 minutes longer.

Variations:
*Try any dried herb you like in place of the thyme. Marjoram, oregano, rosemary, or sage are all good choices.

*Use boneless, skinless chicken breasts instead of bone-in breasts. Grill them until just done, about five minutes per side over moderately high heat.

*Use a quartered chicken instead of bone-in breasts. Cook the breast sections as directed in Step 2 and allow thirteen minutes per side for the leg quarters.