Grilled Chicken with Pepper-Lime Sauce

This grilled chicken dish is flavor-packed, healthy, and easy to prepare.

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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.