Grilled Chicken Breast Recipes

By Food & Wine
Updated September 21, 2017
Credit: © Scott Hocker
From grilled boneless chicken breasts to marinated grilled chicken breasts, these grilled chicken breast recipes are perfect for any occasion.
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Grilled Chicken Breasts with Grapefruit Glaze

Credit: Karen Mordechai
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Simply prepared yet special, these chicken breasts are grilled and basted with a bitter, tart, and sweet glaze.

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Grilled Chicken Breast Tacos with Creamy Cabbage Slaw

Credit: © Phoebe Lapine
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Buy pre-shredded cabbage to make these tacos super fast.

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Grilled Chicken Breasts with Lemon and Thyme

Credit: © Ben Dearnley
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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.

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Grilled Chicken Breasts with Sautéed Mushrooms

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Before grilling chicken, Francis Mallmann tucks orange zest and just-picked oregano under the skin. The fresh flavor is amazing with the crispy, smoky bird.

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Grilled Chicken with Pomegranate Molasses

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Go heavy on the fresh black pepper. The char from the grill and the sticky tang of the pomegranate molasses can withstand a lot of black-pepper heat.

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Grilled-Chicken Banh Mi

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This popular Vietnamese sandwich combines sweet, sour, crunchy and soft in one delicious—and portable—package.

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Grilled Chicken and Corn with Jalapeño-Lime Dressing

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To both maximize his grill and take full advantage of summer’s exceptional produce, chef Dan Kluger combines grilled corn, grilled scallions and grilled chicken in a bright, spicy jalapeño-lime vinaigrette.

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Grilled Mango Chicken with Cabbage Salad

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Jeni Britton Bauer uses sweet-tart mango sorbet as a marinade for chicken and in the dressing for her crunchy cabbage slaw.

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Berber-Spiced Chicken Breasts

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Steven Raichlen is ambivalent when it comes to chicken breasts: "You could describe them two ways," he says. "They're the canvases upon which a grill master paints his colors. Or, to put a less charitable spin on it, they're the meat grill masters love to hate because they're so intrinsically bland." Here, Raichlen rubs the chicken breasts with a blend of North African spices that, when cooked on the grill, forms a crispy crust that is full of what Raichlen calls "gutsy in-your-face flavors."

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Grilled Chicken with Oregano

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Fresh oregano has a compelling funkiness to it. Combined with shallot in a lemony vinaigrette, the oregano is superb with grilled chicken breasts.

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Chicken and Green Bean Salad

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Green beans, tender chicken, a punchy vinaigrette: This refreshing, substantive salad has a lot going for it.

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