Jake’s Grilled Chicken Marinade {All Things Delicious}

Meet Wendi and Jake. These two amazing people are good friends of ours, and they just found out they are having TWINS!!!! Can you imagine!?!? I am soooo excited for them. They even found out that one is a girl and one is a boy!!! I can’t even begin to tell you how excited I am for them. These two amazing friends of ours are THE. NICEST. PEOPLE. on the planet. I have known them for a little over four years now and they were our neighbors when we moved into St. George. I snapped this picture of them and their cute family a few years back.

Well, the other day, Wendi was in charge our BUNKO night. {She always does an amazing job}. Her cute hubby made THE. MOST. DELICOUS. chicken I have tasted in a really long time. And since you all know that I am watching what I eat, I basically FORCED him to give me the recipe. Ha ha, no he actually gave it freely. I made the recipe that weekend for my own family and they LOVED IT. And when I find something that my kids will scarf down, I declare a success. Not only that, but I made this recipe again for my biggest loser peeps last week, and almost everyone requested the recipe. When that happens, you know you have a winner! I don’t share recipes here at All Things Thrifty very often, but when I do, you better bet they are tried and trusted. Maybe it’s because I don’t cook as often as I should, or maybe it’s because I’m super picky about which recipes I share. You be the judge.

If you plan to make this delicious recipe, you will need: 1/2 c. Olive Oil, 1/3 c. Soy Sauce, a few swirls of Honey (I used raw honey), 1 1/2 t. Cumin, 1 t. Oregano, 1/2 Lemon {freshly squeezed}, 1/2 t. Kosher Salt, Pepper {to taste}, and 2 cloves Garlic {pressed}. Combine all of your ingredients into a large bowl and stir well. Then, place thawed/raw boneless skinless chicken TENDERS into the marinade for 2-3 hours. {I love the fact that you don’t have to marinate them for too long because I am terrible at planning that far ahead}. When making the chicken you can try other types of chicken, but I have only made this recipe with chicken tenders. AND when I try a recipe and it knocks my socks off, I don’t deviate from what the boss says. {The boss being who gave me the recipe to begin with}. I figure that if I want my recipe to taste as well as theirs, I better do what they say…..to a T}. Grilled Chicken Marinade Recipe

After the chicken has marinated for a few hours, place the tenders on a pre-heated BBQ. After you start the cooking process, turn the BBQ down to medium and cook them SLOWLY. Since they are chicken tenders, they will still cook quite fast.

Turn them in a few minutes. I know I should have timed this process, but I’m lame like that sometimes. I just turned them when I thought they looked like they needed it.

I’m telling ya, peeps, this chicken is soooo delish.

For this many tenders, I doubled the marinade recipe, but I could have put a few more in with them if I had thawed a few more pieces. I bought my tenders at Costco.

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Comments

Jana and Kyla says:

April 30, 2012 at 1:30 pm

I am on a grilling kick right now! The weather we're having just puts me in the mood!:) This looks so good…can't wait to try it!!

The Yoder's Four says:

April 30, 2012 at 2:48 pm

Sounds easy and yummy! Definitely going to try this soon! Thanks!

Bliss says:

April 30, 2012 at 9:15 pm

Pinned it in my recipes to make.

~Bliss~

Christy Jenkins Photography says:

May 1, 2012 at 8:09 am

If you are really organized after you bring home your groceries make marinade and place chicken in freezer bags and freeze. As the chicken thaws out in the fridge it marinades. This is a great way to save time during a busy week.

Denise Z. says:

May 1, 2012 at 3:04 pm

I had all the ingredients on hand yesterday so…I mixed them up, marinated some chicken breasts and grilled them up. They were really moist and VERY GOOD! This one's a keeper! TFS.

Mamas Spare Time says:

June 2, 2012 at 3:12 pm

Making this tonight for dinner with friends, hopefully it will be a hit! Looks so good, I just had to try it.