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Grilled Chicken Breasts

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Chicken breasts are one of the most popular and also one of the easiest items to grill. It's also easy to produce chicken jerky if you don't know what you are doing. These step by step directions will show you how to easily grill delicious, juicy chicken. There are so many variations with rubs, sauces and marinades that we could probably do a whole site on chicken. We will cover some of these variations in time, but this article focuses on how to grill a chicken breast properly. The great thing about boneless, skinless chicken breasts is that you can cook them over direct, high heat without much risk for flare-ups since they are so lean. This means you can cook them really quickly and sear in all of those juices. The directions below are for relatively thin chicken breasts, less than an inch thick. Times may vary based on the thickness of your breasts, heat of your grill, etc. For these reasons, we can't recommend more strongly the use of a good, instant read thermometer like the Thermapen. Your target temperature is around 160 degrees. Ok, we know you are ready to get started, so let's take a look at step by step directions.

Prep: 10 mins
Cook: 15 mins







Yields: 4 Grilled Chicken Breasts

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Ingredients

  • 4 Boneless, skinless chicken breasts
  • Olive Oil
  • Salt and pepper to taste
  • Favorite spice

Details

Preparation

Step 1

1. Light the grill and leave it on high for direct heat grilling. Make sure you clean the grates!

2. Rinse the chicken breasts under cold running water and then blot dry with paper towels.

3. If you have a chicken breast that is really thick on one end, pound it down with a mallet or pot until you get a more uniform thickness for the whole breast. This will allow the chicken to cook more evenly.

4. Rub the chicken breasts with a little olive oil.

5. Season you chicken with whatever seasoning you like. This could be as easy a little kosher salt and some fresh ground pepper.

6. Place the breast on the hottest part of the grill and don't touch them for about 2 - 3 minutes. As shown in the photo below, you can actually tell that the chicken breast is cooking through, they will get more and more opaque as they cook. If you try to flip them too quickly, they will stick to the grill.

7. Using tongs, lift each breast, rotate 45 degrees and then place them back on the grill. Presentation is half the battle and this will create some impressive grill marks!

8. After 2 to 4 minutes, lift the chicken breasts with tongs and flip them over.

9. Grill for 2 more minutes and then rotate again 45 degrees to make our grill marks on this side.

10. Continue grilling for another 2 to 4 minutes and you should be done! Again, to be sure, use a good instant-read thermometer like the Thermapen, along with our free MeatTemps iPhone app to check the internal temperature of your chicken. For thicker breasts, you may need to close the lid for 5 minutes or so to cook them all of the way through.

11. Remove the chicken breasts from the grill and place on a plate.




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