I’m fully aware that we’ve had a bit of a run of lemon and oregano recipes but here me out with this grilled chicken – I’ve still got tonnes of that oregano my mate gave me and well, it’s coming up to Bank Holiday and time to get the BBQ out. So if you don’t like it, please feel free to pucker up and kiss my bum!
Just a very quick post today as lots to do, but I want to make a special plea to you lot following my bee-facts on Tuesday. If you’ve got a moment or two, pot up some nice bright flowers and stick them outside. Nothing fancy: a few flowers in a rusty beans can will do the job, hell, you can stick a lupin in your fundament for all I care, but let’s save the bees. We’re surrounded on our street by pristine laws of immaculate grass and mm-precision borders and it makes me sad: where are the bees to land if not on our dandelions? We’re deliberately letting the garden grow a bit wild, if only because it makes us laugh when some of the neighbours wince as they walk past. Now they know how I feel when I catch sight of their chinos and Daily Mail.
Oh and whilst we’re on the topic of nature:
Seriously, it makes an amazing pesto for this recipe: spinach and wild garlic pesto pasta (3 syns). Though I recommend you choose the leafs away from the path, otherwise you’ll be accompanying your dinner with a light drizzle of dog piss.
The grilled chicken, then.
lemon and oregano grilled chicken
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Yield 8 thighs
This recipe for lemon and oregano grilled chicken is fresh from Martha Stewart's website, but that's OK, she probably stole it off someone else anyway. #topical
This recipe couldn't be easier, so even your hamfisted attempts at clarting about in the kitchen can't end in disaster. Make the marinade, leave it to sit and then grill it! BBQ or normal grill, who cares - end result is tasty chicken!
DON'T be tempted to skip the oil, for goodness sake. It adds a bit of succulence and for crying out loud, if you're having a BBQ, better to spend the syns on something tasty than an arseholes-and-eyelashes burger from Aldi? Yes?
Looking for something to serve this with: try using the same ingredients to make a batch of roast potatoes and, whilst you've got your grill hot and steamy, whack our peanut butter pork skewers on there!
Ingredients
- as many chicken thighs as you want, though this makes enough marinade for about eight - boneless is better, but if you're alright with the thought of a bone in your mouth, and let's be honest we've all read the graffiti in the bogs which confirms that fact, go with the bone
- 2 tablespoons of grated lemon zest
- 120ml of lemon juice (fresh, mind, don't you be cheap about this)
- 2 tablespoons of olive oil (12 syns, which I've dividing between eight)
- two tablespoons of fresh oregano if you have it (finely chopped) or dried if you're a Dismal Deirdre
- good pinches of salt and ground pepper
- fresh oregano sprigs if you're that way inclined
Instructions
- look, there's two ways of approaching this - make your choice:
- I'm a hussy: OK, leave the skin on the chicken, it's tasty, but you should syn it...should...but well, you know...
- I'm a nun: take off the skin, throw it in the bin, sob silently into your sleeve at what a monster you've become
- whichever way you choose, prick the chicken all over with a fork
- the next step is to combine all the ingredients together and give those chicken thighs a good rub, you saucy minx
- leave to marinate for as long as you dare
- BBQ for however long it takes for the juices to run clear and the internal temperature reaches over 74 degrees in the thickest part of the chicken
- you can, of course, grill in the oven - same rules apply!
Serve with salad!
Notes
- nothing fancy to report here, but if you're sick of chicken thighs don't worry - you can use chicken breasts just as well - we recommend Musclefood's chicken because it doesn't shrink away to an epiglottis-sized piece of nothing when you cook it. We have secured a deal with them which includes a crazy amount of chicken, along with other syn-free meats, and I suggest you take a look right here (oh and full disclosure, we get a tiny bit of commission: but remember our rule, it we don't rate it, we don't sell it)
- we've got a Weber BBQ and love it - this one, actually - but honestly, you don't need to spend a lot of money on a BBQ - as long as it gets hot, that's all you need
- buy a meat thermometer for your BBQing though - seriously - unless you're a fan of spending all weekend trying to stop your innards falling through your hoop! Amazon do a proper cheap number here!
Courses BBQ
Cuisine Italian
My question to you is simple: why aren’t you making this? Want more chicken ideas? Then I, being a merciful Lord, will oblige:
- chicken and cabbage stir fry (1 syn)
- sesame chicken and broccoli (1 syn)
- best ever lemon chicken fakeaway (1.5 syns)
- subway cubway style (1 syn)
- blackened chicken caesar salad (1.5 syns)
- chimichurri turkey skewers (1.5 syns)
- blackened chicken casear salad (1.5 syns)
- chicken and mango salad (1.5 syns)
- Gregg’s style festive chicken bake (1.5 syns)
- honey and rosemary chicken (0.5 syns)
- chicken, ham and leek pie (4 syns)
- marmalade glazed chicken (2.5 syns)
- creamy tequila chicken tagliatelle (less than 2 syns)
Enjoy!
J