Mediterranean Grilled Chicken Breasts
These Mediterranean Grilled Chicken Breasts are a super flavorful way to make your weeknight meals even easier with an incredibly flavorful, super easy-to-make grilled chicken breast!
Use it in our Greek Chicken Salad Wraps!
Who else loves healthy, simple, fast, and easy dinners? I knew we weren’t alone. Cooking from scratch often conjures up images of slaving away in a kitchen for hours on end. Au contraire, that’s not what it means at all. At least not in this super busy household. That’s why these Mediterranean Grilled Chicken Breasts are a favorite in our house!
Recipe Video
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Ingredients Needed
There are a ton of pre-made bottled chicken marinades out there that you can buy. But really, making your own takes only a few more minutes than opening a bottle. And it’s so much fresher with perfect flavors for Mediterranean Grilled Chicken Breasts!
- Chicken Breasts – Boneless and sliced in halves.
- Fresh parsley – Any kind of curly, flat leaf, whatever you have. Fresh is best, but you can sub dried if you need to.
- Fresh Garlic – Also ok to use pre-minced if that’s all you have, but fresh is best.
- Fresh Lemon Juice – You can… well you know the drill (see above).
- Dried Oregano – Reverse on this one – dried works but if you have fresh, awesome!
- Kosher Salt, smoke paprika, fresh cracked black pepper, and olive oil.
Step-by-Step Instructions
It really doesn’t get much easier for a grilled chicken breast.
- Pierce chicken breasts with a fork and then generously season chicken breasts with salt and pepper.
- Add all of the marinade ingredients to a plastic bag and add chicken and mix well.
- Let marinate and then grill!
Done. Easy, right? We LOVE this as the chicken for our Avocado Chicken Chopped Salad!
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Side Dishes to Serve With
Israeli Couscous Cucumber Salad
Garlic and Gruyere Roasted Asparagus
Other Favorite Grilled Recipes
10 Minute Spicy Grilled Shrimp Skewers
FAQs
At the very least 20 minutes but the longer the better! Basically the longer you let it marinate, the more flavorful it will be! You can marinate it for up to 2 days.
Yes. For the 6 tablespoons of fresh parsley, you can sub 6 teaspoons of dried parsley.
Nope – bottled is totally fine.
YES! You can sub it for 1 1/2 tablespoons of fresh oregano, minced.
So Easy. So flavorful. And so not full of High Fructose Corn Syrup, Xanthan Gum, Sorbate, or Sodium Benzoate you’ll find in those bottled marinades!
Enjoy! As always, if you make this recipe or any of my others, I love to hear what you think! Leave a comment below, email me, or you can find me on Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest!
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Mediterranean Grilled Chicken Breasts
Ingredients
- 4 chicken breasts 2 lbs chicken total
- 6 tablespoons of olive oil
- 6 tablespoons of fresh lemon juice
- 6 large garlic cloves minced
- 6 tablespoons of fresh minced parsley
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- 1 1/2 teaspoon of dried oregano
- salt and pepper to season
Instructions
- To a large plastic food storage bag, add olive oil, lemon juice, parsley, garlic, paprika, and oregano and give a little mix.
- Give the chicken breasts a small slice with a knife or pierce with a fork, and then generously season with salt and pepper on both sides. Add to plastic bag with marinade. Seal bag and with your hands, mix the chicken and the marinade together well. Place in fridge and let marinate for 20 minutes or up to two days in the fridge (the longer the better!)
- Pre-heat grill.
- Remove chicken from bag and cook on a grill (or in a grill pan on medium high heat) for about 5-6 minutes per side. Cook until chicken is cooked through and has an internal temperature of at least 165 degrees.
An absolutely [perfect recipe for delicious grilled chicken! This is one to make and enjoy all week with salads, in wraps! I need new chicken recipes to add in to my meal plan and my family will love these flavors! Great meal prep chicken
This is the perfect meal prep item in my opinion. I love the simple ingredients and hassle-free assembly. Bonus points for the fact that it can marinate for a few days…also for the fact that we can use it in so many ways. Thanks for the recipe…sharing!
I love a good, quick chicken marinade. I also adore the way chicken soaks up Mediterranean flavors. Your recipe is different than mine. I can’t wait to try it!
Love how simple this is to make. We often grill boneless breast, but they’re not too flavorful. I can’t wait to try this. The ingredients for the marinade sound tasty and I have everything needed already in the house. Thank you.
What a great, easy dinner. I love the marinade ingredients, the chicken turned out fantastic. Definitely going to have to try this. Thanks for sharing!
I happen to have a package of chicken breasts that I just took out for dinner tonight… I’m going to whip up this easy marinade right now so that the chicken is ready to grill as soon as we get home. Thank you for the delicious, healthy dinner inspiration. The family is going to really enjoy this one.
You can never go wrong with chicken. These tasty pieces of meat can be used in sandwiches, pasta sauce, and salads. Great for many meals throughout the day from breakfast to dinner.
I don’t have a grill how long would I cook this for on the stove or in the oven?
Hi Nell! In the oven at 400 degrees- about 25 – 30 minutes. Once the center reached 165 degrees, then it’s fully cooked. On the stove top about 5-7 minutes on each side until, again internal temp is 165 degrees. Let me know what you think! 😀
Greetings, this looks so yummy!
Do you think I could cook it in my air fryer? I only got it last week and I’m trying to learn what I can and can’t use it for. Thanks so much!
Hi Amy! Absolutely! At 360 degrees for 10 minutes on one side, flip, and 8-10 on the other side until the center reaches at least 165 degrees.
So good! Very tasty! I used dried parsley since I didn’t have fresh ones and they turned out great. I marinated it for 2 days.
This was a hit! Family loved it and it was so easy to make! This recipe is a keeper!