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Here’s my wife’s latest marinade for chicken. Of course this can be used very nicely on any poultry, pork or fish I would say.
My wife and I make a great team. She makes the marinade, and I smoke or grill it up. Sometimes she grills it too, and sometimes I make the marinade and cook it up. Either way, it’s working, because we’re eating pretty damn good these days!
Plus, you’ll notice if you look around at some of the recipes on this website that they’re on the healthier side. We use lean meat, and low fat ingredients wherever possible.
Preparation Time: 45 minutes
Marinade Time: 8 hours
Cook Time: 2 hours
Servings: 4
Ingredients
- 4 skinless boneless chicken breasts
- 1 cup lemon juice
- 1/2 cup honey
- 1/4 cup olive oil
Preparation
- Clean and rinse your chicken breasts and put them in a sealable container.
- Combine the lemon juice, honey and olive oil in a microwave safe bowl and microwave on high for 10 seconds. This will thin out the honey and allow for better mixing. And only 10 seconds will keep it from getting too warm to safely mix with the meat. Pour this over the chicken breasts, seal the container and refrigerate over night, or for 8 hours.
- After the meat is thoroughly marinated, take the chicken out of the marinade and discard the marinade. Get your smoker set up. You'll want to get this up to about 250 to 270 degrees F. I used apple wood for this, but you can certainly use the wood of your choice.
- Once the smoker is settled in at about 260 degrees F, put the chicken directly on the grate. This will take about 1 1/2 to 2 hours to get done. Depending on how done you like your chicken.
Note: I recommend taking it off when the temperature of the meat, (measured at the center of the thickest part of the breast), reaches about 160 degrees on a digital thermometer. Most charts list 167 degrees as the temperature for being done. I’ve personally found that 160 degrees is thoroughly cooked, but still very moist and tender. 167 degrees tends to be more dried out and a bit on the chalky side.
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Sounds great curt! Living in Toronto it is cold so it is hard to get the smoker that hot.
I’ll have to wait till spring!!
Hey Steve. Check out this link and let me know what you think. I’m going to try this out today and probably write an article on it.
I bought the material called Reflectix and will make a jacket for my smoker! It gets mighty cold here in Wisconsin too. http://www.virtualweberbullet.com/coldtemp.html
A great basic marinade for fish, too.
You bet it is. As I put in the post, I would recommend it for fish and pork also.
I need to send my husband to your place for some lessons. He has these dreams of smoking and grilling meats to perfect but they usually … umm … well …. go really badly. lol
This sounds like a chicken marinade I’d love!
Send him on over. I’d love the company on the grill or the smoker. We’ll have a good ole time!
I just did some shrimp and a loaf of bread today on the smoker.
What a delicious marinade! My husband loves smoked chicken but I need to learn how to do that.
Such an easy recipe.
sounds delicious, I love lemon!
Sometimes the more simple recipes can be the most delicious! This looks like it was served as a salad…beautiful! Thanks!
It sounds like you have some great team work happening in the kitchen! This simple, tasty chicken proves it.
I love how simple & surely delicious this is!
I like this…it’s an easy n simple one…
This sounds great! I got a smoker at the end of last summer, so I haven’t used it. This would be a great recipe to try it with. Thanks for posting!
You’re welcome! Smoking meats and other foods adds such a delicious flavor.