16 Chicken Recipes Grilled to Perfection

By Marcus T. • Jun 05, 2024

Fire up the grill... it's summertime and the backyard barbeques are calling! Need a change-up from your typical burger and hotdog cookout? Throw some chicken on the grill and try one of these 16 Grilled Chicken Recipes that are sure to fill you up and delight your taste buds. With a variety of different marinades, sauces, and recipes components — grilled chicken is a great starting point for a variety of creative (and easy!) summer recipes.

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#1. Grilled BBQ Chicken Thighs

Grilled BBQ Chicken Thighs reward patience and care with the juiciest, tenderest chicken you could ever dream of! Slow grilled and slathered in barbecue sauce, this chicken is bursting with smoky, sweet, and savory flavors. This dish practically screams summertime cookout and will win the taste test against other grilled chickens every time. Grilled BBQ Chicken Thighs are guaranteed to be a crowd favorite — even if you’re just cooking for one or two!

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#2. Best Grilled Greek Chicken

Well, isn't this just lovely! The Best Grilled Greek Chicken is a Mediterranean vacation in a golden, juicy-grilled package! Beautifully seasoned, aromatic, and with notes of sunny lemon, this easily marinated, easily cooked, and easily eaten poultry embodies what Greek cooking is all about! Best Grilled Greek Chicken is the best, no question about it!

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#3. Hawaiian Chicken Skewers

Pineapple is a unique fruit in the culinary world. Its tropical sweetness and fibrous texture actually make it perfect for pairing with more savory flavors. So brushing it with a unique, tangy, and garlicky marinade as it grills next to marinated chicken is no surprise, even as it fills your taste buds with wonder! Hawaiian Chicken Skewers do exactly that, with the juicy chicken infused with the full smoky, savory sauce and grilled to a beautiful char, and the pineapple offering an incredible contrast of tastes. Hawaiian Chicken Skewers add a white sand beach vibe to your summer cookout, so prepare both your plates and your flip-flops.

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#4. Grilled Chicken Taco Salad

Summer is popping and it is time to get outside and enjoy the weather. Grilled Chicken Taco Salad is the perfect dish to add to your beautiful-weather meal lineup! Grilled and juicy, these chicken breasts are surrounded by crisp, peppery arugula, sweet grilled corn, crunchy tortilla chips, zesty zucchini, ripe avocado, and plump cherry tomatoes. All of that goodness is immersed in a tangy lime-infused vinaigrette that is absolutely breathtaking. Enjoy the weather and your food — try Grilled Chicken Taco Salad and spice things up a bit. Summer never tasted so good!

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#5. Grilled Lemon Chicken

The secret to this delicious Grilled Lemon Chicken is the marinade that keeps the chicken flavorful and juicy. Bright, herbaceous, and uplifting, that marinade infuses the chicken with flavors that pair wonderfully with its natural savoriness. Grilled Lemon Chicken is impossibly juicy and tender, which will make it a hit at the next barbeque. Serve it as part of an amazing sandwich or eat it on its own paired with fresh greens!

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#6. Tequila Lime Grilled Chicken

When the temperatures are warmer and the days are longer, Tequila Lime Grilled Chicken is what you'll be craving! The juicy grilled chicken encompasses the flavors of summer thanks to its sweet and spicy Tex-Mex-inspired marinade. Put Tequila Lime Grilled Chicken on a big, fresh salad or serve it with some colorful grilled veggies, and every meal will taste like a summertime barbecue!

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#7. Grilled Chicken Shawarma Kebab

Chicken shawarma is one of the best preparations of chicken ever devised: the meat is slathered in a rich, tangy, aromatic marinade and cooked to a juicy, gorgeous golden brown. Grilled Chicken Shawarma Kebab speeds up the process of getting that incredible chicken to your tastebuds, cooking up the chicken on the grill to ensure beautiful coloring and savory flavor. With a homemade garlicky tahini sauce, Grilled Chicken Shawarma Kebab is a fantastic meal whether you serve it with pita bread and tzatziki sauce, couscous, or on its own as part of a summer cookout!

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#8. Grilled Chicken Ramen Salad

Have your salads been a bit limp and lackluster lately? This Grilled Chicken Ramen Salad will bring you out of the slump with a very crunchy, Asian-inspired dish. The ramen noodles are slightly toasted, so they maintain their texture, and fresh snow peas and crumbled bacon add to that. Add the tangy vinaigrette to your Grilled Chicken Ramen Salad and you have a lunch worth closing your work computer for.

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#9. Summer Chicken Wraps

Making lunch during the warm weather months should be as easy and breezy as the season itself. That's why these Summer Chicken Wraps are just the thing to satisfy your midday hunger! A simple, yet scrumptious, mix of your favorite dressing, savory grilled chicken, crisp lettuce, and melt-in-your-mouth Monterey Jack cheese makes for a wrap experience that's distinctly delectable! Ready in a flash and filling in the best way, Summer Chicken Wraps makes your life as easy as a leisurely summer day!

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#10. Grilled Chicken Caesar Salad

Grilled Chicken Caesar Salad is the classic. The gold-standard. The king of salads. It earned this lofty title thanks to its own flavor merits: a combination of crisp, crunch, creamy, and cheesy. The garden-fresh bed of lettuce supports homemade sourdough croutons and the classic peppery, creamy, tangy dressing. The grilled chicken adds savory and meaty flavors while mingling with the other tastes on the plate. You can taste the difference immediately: a homemade Grilled Chicken Caesar Salad beats anything that comes out of a bag.

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#11. Chicken Satay with Peanut Butter Sauce

Chicken Satay with Peanut Butter Sauce is a classic of Thai restaurants and now it can be the star of your backyard barbeque! The tender chicken is marinated in coconut milk, curry powder, garlic, ginger, brown sugar, fish sauce, and turmeric for a distinctly golden and sweet finish. It’s grilled to perfection and then served with a savory-sweet homemade peanut butter sauce that bursts with flavor. Chicken Satay with Peanut Butter Sauce is hearty, spicy, garlicky, and absolutely mouthwatering! You’ll be rethinking how you do chicken in the future once you try this!

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#12. Cactus Salad

Cactus Salad doesn't contain any actual cactus, but it's the kind of salad you'll want when you're out exploring the cactus-strewn deserts of the Southwest! The dressing is bold, creamy, tangy, and vibrant thanks to the feature of some fresh avocado. The salad itself has plenty of zesty chicken, grilled summery corn, and hearty black beans to really capture that feeling of the open orange vistas underneath the sun. Cactus Salad is a bounty of deliciousness from the far corners of the United States!

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#13. Bob's Hot Honey Wings

Hot honey is our friend Bob's favorite blend of flavors. He was determined to perfect it, and that's how Bob's Hot Honey Wings came to be. He takes the juicy chicken wings and rubs them with some electrically spicy seasonings. He creates his alluring sweet honey glaze with a kick that has the power to make you come back for more! Served with spicy grilled shishito peppers, fiery Thai chiles, cooling cilantro, crunchy peanuts, and chili crisps for even more heat, Bob's Hot Honey Wings are the way to go when the sweet and spicy cravings need to be extinguished! Thanks, Bob!

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#14. Perfect Picnic Sandwiches

You have the picnic blanket, the basket, and the cold sodas. All you need now is the picnic site and, of course, these Perfect Picnic Sandwiches. These grilled barbecue chicken sandwiches are literally soaking in flavor with the sweet and tangy sauce coating the savory chicken. Stacked with tomato and lettuce on a toasty Kaiser roll, Perfect Picnic Sandwiches are great for taking to work, enjoying indoors, or, yes, eating outside in the sun!

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#15. Chimichurri Chicken

Chimichurri Chicken doesn't do things by half-measures. It goes all in so you can enjoy big flavors with ease! At its heart is the secret weapon — a homemade chimichurri that's herbaceous, savory, and so fresh, perfect for marinating succulent chicken or accenting tender, fluffy couscous! Served with sharp feta cheese, Chimichurri Chicken makes sure that other grilled chicken dishes pale in comparison!

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#16. Balsamic Chicken & Strawberry Salad

The full summer experience somehow fits into a single salad bowl with the Balsamic Chicken & Strawberry Salad. If that isn't an invitation to enjoy it, we don't know what it is! Grilled chicken basted with a homemade strawberry-barbecue sauce is the perfect blend of sweet and savory, accented by the kiss of the flame. The salad itself is refreshing and light, with tangy bites of feta cheese and crunchy almonds, and it even has its own strawberry vinaigrette for the full berry-picking feeling! Balsamic Chicken & Strawberry Salad is seasonally scrumptious!

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