Recipe of the Week – Chicken Breasts with Garlic Butter
April 20, 2009
(From The Chicken Entrée Collection at emealsforyou.com)
Chicken Breasts with Garlic Butter
Last week I posted about moving on from Mac and Cheese and trying something a little more (adult); so why not go the same route with plain old grilled chicken. Taking your normal grilled dinner and adding a simple and easy touch will have your family smiling. This recipe requires about 5 extra minutes of prep time and is well worth it.
Also let’s take a minute to discuss the finer details. This recipe calls for boneless chicken breasts, so if you have bone-on chicken breasts no big deal. The garlic butter recipe calls for cilantro, many don’t like the taste of cilantro, so don’t put it in or substitute parsley or rosemary of just go without the “green stuff”. As I have stated in the past, make these recipes your recipes, change or don’t change them to adjust for your taste. The important thing is to try different methods and ingredients; get out of the same old grind and live a little.
Chicken Breasts with Garlic Butter
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 4 |
| Category: | Chicken Entrée |
| Meal: | Other (General) |
| 4 | Tb | butter, salted |
| 1 | tsp | cilantro |
| 1 | cloves | garlic, minced |
| 4 | medium | chicken , breast, boned with skin on |
| 1 | Tb | oil, olive |
| 1 | pinch | salt and pepper to taste |
Allow butter to soften; mince garlic and cilantro and blend into the softened butter. Place the butter in plastic wrap, roll into a log and set in the refrigerator to firm up. Cut a pouch into the chicken breast on a diagonal about 11/2 inches wide and 11/ inches ‘deep. Stuff a Tb of the butter into each pouch. Pour a little of the olive oil over the breasts and salt and pepper them to taste. Heat grill to high temperature then cook the breast 10 -15 minutes, until juices run clear.
Note: garlic butter is also great on steaks and burgers.
Entry Filed under: Dinners. Tags: chicken breasts, easy garlic butter recipe, garlic butter, grilled chicken, grilled chicken breasts, moist chicken breasts.
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