Thursday 9 July 2015

BBQ'd herby, lemony chicken

The smell of BBQ in the air is a sure sign that it's summer and while the sunshine bit of Summer is pretty patchy you can make the most of the good weather by being barbecue ready.

This is a fun and easy recipe which will give you tasty Summer alternative to KFC AND it comes with a salad! It's easy to dry chicken too much on the barbecue but this recipe avoids that by using pounded, thin meat. This is known as a paillard and it's definitely an easy way to impress this BBQ season. 

You will need:

  • 6 chicken breasts without the skin
  • 5 tablespoons olive oil
  • 1⁄2 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
  • 140g bag rocket
  • 25g Parmesan
  • 3 lemons
  • 2 cloves of garlic 
  • 3 rosemary sprigs 
  • 6 sage leaves
  • Cling film or baking parchment
  • Rolling pin or meat mallet
  • Sharp knife 
  • Grater for zesting
  • Pestle and mortar
  • BBQ
  • Serving dish
  • Tongs



How it's done:
  • Place each breast between two sheets of cling film or baking and bash each one to ½ a cm thick using your rolling pin or mallet.
  • Finely shred your sage 
  • Chop rosemary finely
  • Zest one whole lemon  
  • Juice half a lemon
  • Crush garlic
  • Add crushed garlic,  pepper, salt, rosemary, sage and olive oil together and pour over chicken. 
  • Chill chicken for two hours
  • Clean rocket
  • Shave parmesan using grater
  • Cut remaining lemons into chunk wedges
  • Add rocket, parmesan, oil and balsamic vinegar together – you have your salad
  • Once BBQ flames have died down spread coals out to create an even layer
  • Cook chicken for 1-2minutes on each side. 
  • Transfer to a clean plate and rest.
Serve with salad and a wedge of lemon.



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