Grilled Island Chicken

This recipe comes from here.  This is the very best chicken I've made!  It was so good.  Yesterday's chicken was good, but this one was way better.  It was good by itself, or it would have been good with flat bread and tzatziki sauce, or with French fries.  It was juicy and flavorful.  I wasn't expecting it to be so good, because the marinade is so simple, but it's really, really good.

Grilled Island Chicken

1/3 cup vegetable oil
3 TBSP freshly squeezed lemon juice (I used 2)
1 1/2 TBSP soy sauce
1 clove garlic, finely minced
1/2 tsp dried oregano
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper
2-4 chicken breasts (If I was using more than 2, I would double the recipe)

Combine all the ingredients except chicken in a bowl or Ziploc bag.  Mix well.  Add the chicken breasts, and marinate all day.  Cook on the grill until done.  I cubed my chicken and did it on skewers, that's our favorite way to eat grilled chicken, and it cooks the fastest, but you can cook the breasts whole too.

Pineapple Apricot Chicken Skewers

Once again, this recipe comes from here.  She has a lot of great grilling recipes.  I've been using the grill more this year, and I've really liked it.  The downside is, we're going through chicken faster than ever!  My stash in the freezer is almost gone.  I need a chicken sale!  I did halve this recipe, it makes a TON of marinade.  You could easily do 2 chicken breasts, or 3 smaller ones with half the recipe, and that's plenty of chicken for us.

Pineapple Apricot Chicken Skewers

32 ounce jar of pineapple apricot preserves
1 TBSP yellow mustard
3 TBSP balsamic vinegar
2 TBSP honey
1 tsp garlic powder
salt and pepper
4-6 chicken breasts, cubed
8-10 bamboo skewers

Combine the ingredients in a gallon ziploc bag except chicken.  Mix well.  Add chicken, mix in and marinate from 2 hours to all day.  The longer the better.  (I only did a couple hours, next time I would plan better and do all day.)  Put chicken on skewers and grill until cooked through.

I halved the amount of preserves, but I did the full amount of the other seasonings.  I hope that makes sense.  So if I made the whole recipe, I would do 32 ounces of the preserves, but double the rest of the spices.