Grilled Chicken with Pepper-Lime Sauce
This grilled chicken dish is flavor-packed, healthy, and easy to prepare.
Ingredients
- 2 chicken breasts
- ¼ cup unsweetened Greek yogurt ( 2-5% fat content)
- 1 shallot (finely minced)
- ½ clove garlic (finely minced)
- 1 tsp red pepper flakes
- 1 tsp honey
- 1 Tbsp Dijon mustard
- Juice of 2 limes
- 1 can of preserved red piquillo peppers
- Salt & freshly-ground black pepper (to taste)
Instructions
- Salt and pepper both sides of the chicken breast.
- Marinade chicken breads in the ¼ cup of Greek yogurt overnight.
- Before cooking the chicken, remove chicken from fridge and allow to rest at room temperature for 1 hour.
- Preheat grill to 500F.
- To make the pepper-lime sauce, combine minced shallot, minced garlic, and lime juice with the red pepper flakes, honey, and Dijon mustard and allow to rest for 15 minutes.
- Blend mixture with red piquillo peppers until smooth.
- Taste and adjust seasoning with salt, pepper, and lime.
- Grill chicken on both sides, and allow to rest for 3 minutes before serving.
- Serve chicken with sauce.
Notes
Any leftover grilled chicken and sauce can be used the next day on top of a simple salad.