• Having a Baby
    • Pregnancy
    • Baby Checklists
    • Trying To Conceive
    • Labor Birth
  • Baby Names
    • Baby Boy Names
    • Baby Girl Names
    • Unique Baby Names
  • Kids Learning & Activities
    • Kids Crafts
    • Printable Mazes
    • Kids Recipes
    • Coloring Pages
    • Kids Education
    • Printable Sudoku Puzzles
    • Kids & Math
    • Preschool
    • Kids & Science
  • Dinner Ideas & Recipes
    • Easy Recipes
    • Quick and Easy Dinner Recipes
    • Dessert Recipes
    • Healthy Recipes
    • Dinner Recipes
    • Freezer Cooking Recipes
    • Chicken Recipes
    • Salad Recipes
    • Crock Pot Recipes
    • Soup Recipes
    • Chili Recipes
    • Pasta Recipes
    • 5 Ingredient Recipes
    • Mama Shirley’s Recipes
  • Celebrations
    • Kids Birthday Parties
    • Baby Showers
    • Celebrate Father’s Day
    • Celebrate Mother’s Day
    • Celebrate St Patrick’s Day
    • Celebrate Valentine’s Day
    • Celebrate Christmas
    • Halloween Recipes
    • Easter Recipes
    • Celebrate Thanksgiving
    • Celebrate Graduation
    • Celebrate New Years
    • Celebrate July 4th
  • Family Life
    • Family Health
      • Women’s Health
      • Nutritional Foods in Season
      • Lose Weight Fast
    • Checklists
    • Free Printables
    • Gardening
    • Household Pets
    • Kid’s Behavior
    • Quotes about Family Life
  • Search

Mobile Menu

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Menu
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Before Header

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
Affiliate Disclosure

Moms Who Think

Parenting Advice and So Much More

  • Having a Baby
    • Pregnancy
    • Baby Checklists
    • Trying To Conceive
    • Labor Birth
  • Baby Names
    • Baby Boy Names
    • Baby Girl Names
    • Unique Baby Names
  • Kids Learning & Activities
    • Kids Crafts
    • Printable Mazes
    • Kids Recipes
    • Coloring Pages
    • Kids Education
    • Printable Sudoku Puzzles
    • Kids & Math
    • Preschool
    • Kids & Science
  • Dinner Ideas & Recipes
    • Easy Recipes
    • Quick and Easy Dinner Recipes
    • Dessert Recipes
    • Healthy Recipes
    • Dinner Recipes
    • Freezer Cooking Recipes
    • Chicken Recipes
    • Salad Recipes
    • Crock Pot Recipes
    • Soup Recipes
    • Chili Recipes
    • Pasta Recipes
    • 5 Ingredient Recipes
    • Mama Shirley’s Recipes
  • Celebrations
    • Kids Birthday Parties
    • Baby Showers
    • Celebrate Father’s Day
    • Celebrate Mother’s Day
    • Celebrate St Patrick’s Day
    • Celebrate Valentine’s Day
    • Celebrate Christmas
    • Halloween Recipes
    • Easter Recipes
    • Celebrate Thanksgiving
    • Celebrate Graduation
    • Celebrate New Years
    • Celebrate July 4th
  • Family Life
    • Family Health
      • Women’s Health
      • Nutritional Foods in Season
      • Lose Weight Fast
    • Checklists
    • Free Printables
    • Gardening
    • Household Pets
    • Kid’s Behavior
    • Quotes about Family Life
  • Search
Home » Dinner Ideas & Recipes » 5 Ingredient Recipes » 5 Ingredient Chicken Recipes » Summertime Chicken Recipe
grilled summertime chicken

Summertime Chicken Recipe

Grab your FREE copy of one of our most popular and engaging activity packets! Whether you’re in the classroom or keeping your little ones busy at home these days, we have fun, engaging, and FREE printable activity for your kiddos to enjoy. To snag and instantly download you copy, just CLICK HERE!

Nothing says the taste of summertime quite like delicious chicken, fresh off the grill. Add in some seasonal vegetables and you’re sure to enjoy the fresh flavors coming together. There’s just something special and delicious about grilled chicken and vegetables for a perfect summertime meal.

Even better: summertime chicken is an easy meal. While it requires some overnight marinating, it comes together quickly. Most of the prep time is just spent marinating the chicken and vegetables, which doesn’t require much active effort.

As this recipe is written, it’s so easy that even a child could do most of the prep work. That’s perfect if you want to get your kids involved in cooking with you. It’s a misconception that home cooking has to be time-consuming and labor-intensive. You don’t have to be a slave to the kitchen or spend a fortune to get dinner on the table. What’s really important is that you have a family meal together that’s healthy, affordable, and simple to prepare.

Once the chicken and vegetables have been marinated long enough to let the flavors really soak in, the cooking time is also fast. This is the kind of meal that you can start before you go to bed at night and have ready to grill as soon as you get home from work the next day. It’s a must in any
busy family’s repertoire.

Grilled Chicken Recipes

Who doesn’t love grilled chicken? It’s versatile, healthy, and doesn’t tend to be the kind of meal your family will find boring. Unlike some more complex meals like lasagna or enchiladas, what makes grilled chicken a star is the fact that it can be served in many different ways. Chicken’s simplicity is what makes it so welcome on your dinner table.

As with this recipe, grilled chicken recipes can be served with roasted and marinated vegetables on the side. But you can also use grilled chicken on kebabs, alternating cubes of chicken with other vegetables, such as peppers, tomatoes, or onions.

Grilled chicken is also delicious when served with pasta, which can include vegetables or not. A combination of grilled chicken and vegetables tossed over pasta with a drizzle of olive oil and topped with parmesan cheese makes a family-pleasing pasta primavera.

Grilled chicken is also an ideal protein choice to serve with a dinner-sized portion of salad. When you’re making grilled chicken with salad, you can decide which vegetables will be the best additions to the recipe. You can go with a classic American palate and add ranch, tomatoes, carrots, cucumbers, and shredded cheese. You can make a Greek-inspired salad with black or kalamata olives, tomatoes, pepperoncini, Greek dressing, and crumbled feta. The possibilities are endless.

Grilled Chicken Marinade

Plain chicken can sometimes be kind of ho-hum. It’s inoffensive but it’s also not very exciting. That’s why choosing the right grilled chicken marinade is so essential. A marinade takes chicken from mundane to magical.

Even better than adding delicious flavor and pizzazz to your chicken, a good marinade also preserves the natural juiciness of the chicken. One of the top complaints about chicken can be that it’s sometimes too dry. You never have to worry about that again when you use a grilled chicken marinade!

This recipe calls for a bottle of Italian salad dressing as a marinade. But you can also dress up the marinade by adding a clove or two of minced garlic, a teaspoon of oregano or basil, or a teaspoon of lemon juice.

But you can also change the recipe by using any of a variety of other dressings. A balsamic vinaigrette is a good, flavorful choice, as is a bottle of Greek vinaigrette. Even a raspberry vinaigrette has a tangy flavor that you may love.

You can even make your own marinade, which doesn’t take long to whip up. Combine 1/3 cup each of lemon juice, olive oil, and red wine vinegar and add a teaspoon each of dry basil and oregano.

Another popular marinade is a take on the Hawaiian dish shoyu chicken. Sold by street vendors, shoyu chicken is flavorful and delicious. Shoyu chicken is a combination of brown sugar, soy sauce, and garlic, providing a complex sweet and savory flavor.

Of course, you can also try just pouring a bottle of barbecue sauce over the chicken as a marinade. Grilled barbecue chicken is a summertime family favorite for good reason; everybody loves it!

Even though this recipe is called summertime chicken, it’s really great at any time of year. As long as you can use the grill, this recipe can deliver a delicious meal you’ll proudly serve your family.

If you enjoyed this recipe, make sure to check out our Olive Oil Chicken and our Sweet and Saucy Chicken.

Print
clock clock iconcutlery cutlery iconflag flag iconfolder folder iconinstagram instagram iconpinterest pinterest iconfacebook facebook iconprint print iconsquares squares iconheart heart iconheart solid heart solid icon
summertime chicken recipe

Summertime Chicken Recipe


1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)

Loading…

5 from 1 reviews

  • Author: Moms Who Think
  • Prep Time: 10 Minutes
  • Cook Time: 15 Minutes
  • Total Time: 25 minutes
Print Recipe
Pin Recipe

Description

Summertime chicken is an easy meal. While it requires some overnight marinating, it comes together quickly. Most of the prep time is just spent marinating the chicken and vegetables, which doesn’t require much active effort.


Ingredients

Scale
  • 1 cup Italian dressing
  • 4 chicken breast halves, about 2 pounds
  • 4 ears fresh corn or frozen ears of corn (thawed)
  • 2 large ripe tomatoes, cut in half crosswise

Instructions

  1. In shallow dish, pour 1/2 cup dressing over chicken.
  2. In another dish, pour remaining dressing over corn and tomatoes.
  3. Marinate both, covered, in refrigerator at least 3 hours or overnight, turning occasionally.
  4. Remove chicken and vegetables, reserving marinades.
  5. Grill or broil chicken and corn 20 minutes or until chicken is done, turning and basting with marinades.
  6. Arrange tomatoes, cut-side up, on grill or broiler pan.
  7. Grill 10 minutes, frequently basting.
  • Category: Main Course
  • Method: Grilling
  • Cuisine: American

Keywords: grilled chicken recipes, grilled chicken marinade

Did you make this recipe?

Share a photo and tag us — we can’t wait to see what you’ve made!

Category: 5 Ingredient Chicken Recipes

Related Posts

You may be interested in these posts from the same category.

creamy chicken and broccoli

Chicken and Creamy Lemon Broccoli Recipe

triple mango chicken recipe

Triple Mango Chicken Recipe

raspberry thyme chicken recipe

Raspberry Thyme Chicken Recipe

Previous Post: «Perfect Cheesecake Tips Simple Secrets to Cheescake Recipe
Next Post: Refrigerator Rolls Recipe Refrigerator-Rolls-1»

Primary Sidebar

Don’t Make These Common Baby Naming Mistakes

Unlock instant access "The Ultimate Guide to Baby Naming in 2021!" and learn how hundreds of parents named their babies, what they regret doing, and what they would do again if they were having a baby today.

    Built with ConvertKit

    Site Footer

    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • Pinterest
    • Twitter
    • YouTube
    • About Us
    • Sitemap
    • Privacy Policy

    Copyright © 2021 Moms Who Think · All Rights Reserved · Powered by Mai Theme