
Summeripe Grilled Chicken
- Prep Time: 270
- Cook Time: 15
- Total Time: 285
Description
A savory yet sweet Summeripe Peach paste is used to make the perfect accent to juicy grilled chicken breasts or chicken skewers. Fire up the grill and try this tasty recipe!
Ingredients
Scale
Ingredients
Chicken
- 4 chicken breast, boneless, skinless
- Slice breast into thin halves, creating 8 thin breast halves
- *For chicken skewers, cut chicken breast into even 1/2 inch strips
Summeripe Peach Paste
- 4 green onions cut into two inch pieces
- 1 jalapeño pepper, coarsely chopped
- 5 garlic cloves
- 2 tablespoons or about two inches of fresh ginger, coarsely chopped
- One handful of fresh cilantro leaves
- 2 tablespoons blue agave syrup or honey
- 4 tablespoons fresh lime juice
- 1 tablespoon amchoor powder (option to substitute with allspice)
- 1 teaspoon fresh thyme, leaves only
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
- 2 Summeripe peaches, peeled, pitted and quartered
Instructions
Directions
For the Summeripe Peach Paste
- Put the first eleven ingredients into a food processor
- Process until finely chopped scraping ingredients from the side of the processor if needed
- Add Summeripe Peaches and process until the Summeripe Peaches are the size of small peas
For the Chicken
- Place chicken into a large storage bag and add 3/4 of the Summeripe Peach Paste. Reserve the remaining paste for basting
- Marinate the chicken in the Summeripe Peach Paste for 4 to 8 hours
- Preheat grill to medium-high
- Grill the chicken until meat is firm with good grill marks, 3-6 minutes per side, depending on the thickness of the chicken breast
- *If making skewers, thread the chicken strips onto the skewers, loosely for even cooking
- Baste the remaining paste onto the chicken breasts the last 1-2 minutes of cooking
Notes
- Great Tip: Add thinly sliced Grilled Summeripe Chicken and sliced Summeripe Peaches to make any salad into a healthy & protein packed summer time meal.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 8
- Calories: 280
- Sugar: 4
- Sodium: 412
- Fat: 6
- Saturated Fat: 2
- Unsaturated Fat: 3
- Trans Fat: 0
- Carbohydrates: 8
- Protein: 46
- Cholesterol: 126