These grilled chicken recipes include marinated breasts and thighs, skewers, foil packets, wings and assembled salad or wrap meals. Choose the cut and serving style you want, then open the complete recipe for quantities and directions. The wrap starts with chicken already grilled, while the other selections include their own grill-cooking stages.
- Grilled Chicken Recipes with Breasts, Thighs and Tenders
- Chicken Skewers, Foil Packets and Wings
- Grilled Chicken Salads and Wraps
Include marinating and sauce preparation in your plan. Several grilled chicken recipes keep clean serving sauce separate before the remaining mixture touches raw poultry. Similar-size pieces and a cooler grill area help the method work as intended; follow each recipe’s checks rather than judging by char alone. Add separate sides where the recipe provides only chicken or small wing portions.
Grilled Chicken Recipes with Breasts, Thighs and Tenders
These options use different marinade bases and resting schedules. Choose even pieces that match the individual method, and keep the used marinade separate from the finished food.
1. Garlic Herb Grilled Chicken Breast
Small, evenly flattened breast pieces marinate with garlic, lemon, oil and Italian herbs before grilling. The method includes a several-hour refrigerator marinade and a short rest. Choose sides separately for the finished chicken portions.
2. Grilled BBQ Chicken
A homemade ketchup-based barbecue sauce is simmered and divided before marinating thin cutlets. Separate portions are protected for late basting and serving. Include sauce cooling and the marinade period before the chicken reaches the grill.
3. Honey Lime Chicken Tenders
Italian dressing, honey and lime coat tenderloins during a refrigerator marinade. The pieces are drained before grilling, and the used mixture is discarded. This is a smaller cut with separately chosen accompaniments.
4. Thai-Style Grilled Chicken Thighs
Soy, fish sauce, brown sugar, lime and dry spices flavor opened boneless thighs during marinating. The chicken grills over two heat zones and rests before serving. Optional cilantro finishes the cooked portions.
Chicken Skewers, Foil Packets and Wings
These grilled chicken recipes include different equipment and serving sizes. Chicken and produce cook on separate skewers in the pineapple version, while the foil packets keep vegetables and sauce together.
5. Hawaiian Teriyaki Chicken Skewers
A pineapple-soy sauce is cooked and divided before chicken marinates in part of it. Chicken and oiled produce use separate skewers so their cooking can be managed independently. Clean reserved sauce finishes the plates.
6. Garlic Herb Chicken Kabobs
Chicken cubes marinate in a mayonnaise-and-ranch mixture with vinegar and dry seasonings. They are threaded with space before grilling and turning. This recipe is for chicken skewers, with any vegetable or grain side prepared separately.
7. Hawaiian Barbecue Chicken Foil Packets
Even chicken portions, pineapple, peppers and zucchini share individual double-foil packets with a barbecue mixture. A small clean sauce portion is saved before assembly. The packets stay seam-up and are vented carefully after grilling.
8. Honey Buffalo Grilled Wings
Wing pieces marinate before cooking over a two-zone grill, with protected sauce portions for basting and serving. The batch is portioned as an appetizer. Add other dishes if using the wings as part of dinner.
Grilled Chicken Salads and Wraps
Finish with grilled chicken served over romaine or folded into a wrap. One grills the chicken during preparation, while the wrap is a way to use already-cooked grilled breasts.
9. Grilled Chicken Caesar Salad
Chicken cutlets grill after a lemon-and-oil coating, then rest before slicing over dry romaine and tomatoes. Commercial Caesar dressing, Parmesan and croutons finish the bowls. The recipe portions the prepared vegetables and toppings with the chicken.
10. Grilled Chicken Caesar Wrap
Already-grilled, cooled breasts are sliced and divided with dressed romaine between wraps or lettuce portions. Optional Parmesan and croutons provide the finish. This is an assembly recipe for prepared chicken rather than instructions for grilling raw breasts.
Before You Choose Your Recipe
Choose grilled chicken recipes by the cut, marinade and way you want to serve the meal. Allow for preparation before grilling, keep clean serving sauces protected and follow the complete recipe for cooking and resting. The linked directions explain the included sides or assembly components.
