Today, I have a Citrus Grilled Chicken recipe. I chose this recipe because of it’s easy-to-find ingredients as well as the fact that the weather is getting quite nice here and it’s definitely time to pull out the grill! But don’t worry, if you don’t have a grill, you can do this in a pan as well. Give it a try!
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Clean Eating Citrus Grilled Chicken
(Makes 2 servings)
Ingredients:
- 1 orange
- 1 lime
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 1 teaspoon minced garlic
- 2 (6 ounce) boneless, skinless chicken breasts
- 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper (I omitted this so Mini Chef would eat it)
Directions:
- Zest orange and lime into a large bowl.
- Squeeze orange juice into bowl.
- Add oil, garlic and chicken, tossing to coat.
- Cover and refrigerate 30 minutes.
- Prepare grill or grill pan over medium-high heat.
- Remove chicken from marinade, and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
- Cook chicken 6 minutes per side or until done.
NOTE: The recipe doesn’t call for using the rest of the lime. But if you enjoy a lime flavor on your chicken, squeeze the juice over the chicken while it’s cooking. Delish! Also, if you don’t have a bowl wide enough so the chicken can evenly marinate, just pour everything into a large ziplock bag and let it sit in that. (That’s what I did!)
Made this last night. It was really good but sour due to the lime. Next time I don’t think I would squeeze the lime juice over the chicken while its cooking; at least not as much as I did. Other than that, a really great recipe that I will definitely make again!
Made this tonight! Loved it, I had a lemon on had but no lime. We loved it
Daphne – Fantastic! 🙂
This was excellent! I made it with Cilantro lime rice and it was just amazing! Thanks again Tiffany!
Gms2606 – Fantastic! So glad you enjoyed it. 🙂
Made this last night and they turned out so delicious!! Super moist!! I actually used the marinade to make a sauce after the chicken breast where done. My hubby loved it!! Thanks!!
Tayra – Awesome! So glad you both enjoyed it!
Made this recipe for dinner tonight and it was soooo good!
Jeanine – Glad you enjoyed it! 🙂
Made this tonight, very good. We are just start on the journey of clean eating and every recipe I have made from your site has been great. Thank you for sharing!
I made these and they were great. But thanks to the weather I can’t grill a whole bag outside yet. If I wanted to bake them in the oven, how long would you grill say six breasts at once? Thanks for your help.
Casey – I did mine on the stove top grill. If you do it in the oven, it would be just like any other chicken breast. I would guess about 40 minutes at 350 F. But that’s just a guess.
Cheers from Singapore! I stumbled across your blog recently, thanks to my new-found love for clean eating. Made this citrus chicken last night and loved it 🙂 We Asians love spicy food, so it was a little out of my comfort zone, but tasty nonetheless. I’d like to try baking the french toast casserole this weekend, looking forward to it! Thanks for this fantastic blog and your delish recipes!
Filzah – My pleasure! Glad you enjoyed it. And if you make it again, feel free to add some cayenne or other spice to it. It should be quite tasty!
I tried this recipe today and it was perfect! I used skinless chicken breast tenderloins instead and used lemon instead of lime. I actually squeezed the lemon in the marinade and the flavors were well balanced! Clean eating doesn’t mean tasteless food and this recipe clearly showcased that. With the use of your website, there may be hope for me after all lol thank you 🙂
Anquanette – On the contrary! Eating clean means eating delicious foods! Happy I could help. 🙂
Making this tonight. Will let you know who it turned out. I can’t wait!
Angel – Please do!
Made this for dinner last night and totally LOVED it. Just starting with clean eating and you my dear, are an angel.
Lee B – Awesome! So glad you liked it!
I’m new to clean eating and this was the first recipe I tried. I added some chipotle seasoning to add a little spice! I was concerned my husband wouldn’t be on board with clean eating, but he loved it! Thanks, Tiffany!
Teresa – My pleasure! 😀
I started clean eating today! I’m making this recipe tonight for my family. I was just wondering the calorie count in this recipe?
Erin E – I don’t know. I don’t figure data for eMeals recipes. But there are lots of calculators on the web. MyFitnessPal.com is a good one.
Just finished the last bite & it was Delish!
I’m wondering though, how many calories are in it?
Johnine – Glad you enjoyed it! I don’t figure data for eMeals recipes, so you would have to enter the recipe into a nutrition calculator online. I usually use MyFitnessPal.com, but there are many others.
One thing, is it sour orange you should used( I new to cooking in general and well yes sour oranges are used more in cooking but I just wanna make sure)
Daniel J – No, I did not use sour oranges. I used a Naval orange.