Grilling Lemon Thyme Chicken Breast with Feta Salad on your Pellet Grill

hey everybodyJohann Magnussen here big Swede barbecueand today we’re grilling up some lemonthyme chicken breast with a veryrefreshing feta salad on to Memphis woodfire grillso the first thing that we need to do ismake the lemon thigh marinade that thechicken breasts will marinate inovernight so we will start with choppingthe thym thoroughly then we want toplace the time together with a lemonvinaigrette the Dijon mustard some oliveoil garlic and some salt and pepper totaste in a mixing bowl and whiskthoroughly so when the marinade is doneit’s time to start trimming the chickenbreast so the way that I like to trimthe chicken breast when i grill it isjust to take off some of the extra fatthen flip it over and then you see thechicken breast almost have a heart shapeand what I like to do is separate thebigger muscle from the smaller one andthen I use the smaller muscle for stewsand things like that and then you have agood size beautiful chicken breast likethat that will grill very evenly whenthey’re trimmed you put the chickenbreast in the marinade and you let thatmarinate for 24 hours in therefrigerator and you want to make surethat you turn it around a couple oftimes so all the parts of the chickenbreast really soak in that beautifulmarinade so it is now time to make thefeta salad and the first thing that youwant to do is half a lemon and squeezethe lemon juice into a mixing bowl thenyou want to whisk the lemon juicetogether with the olive oil the mustardthe agave nectar and some chopped dilluntil thoroughly mixed next it’s time topeel the Persian cucumbers to cube themand then mix them with them choppedtomatoes and the feta cheese togetherwith the vinaigrette you want to tossthis gently season it with a little bitof salt and pepper and then refrigeratefor at least an hour before surgeryso I just brought out the chicken breastfrom the fridge and these have beenmarinating now for 24 hours and theythey smell and they look amazing fromthe lemon theim marinade so what we wantto do now is we want to set up ourMemphis wood fire grill to 500° grillmode and we want to use some sort offruit wood pellets so the Memphis woodfire grill is now sitting at 500 degreesand it’s time to grill the chickenbreast the way that I like to cook theseis to an inner temperature of 165degrees and I like to flip the breastsquite frequently by doing that it willcook more evenly and I would guessbreast this size will take between 10 to15 minutes to get up to internaltemperature 165 so while we’re waitingfor the chicken to be ready it’s time toslice the lemon and you really just wantit to slice it into thin slices we’regonna put these on the grill give them acouple of minutes on each side just togive them some good sear marks and thenwe’re going to serve this together withthe chicken and the feta sound thechicken breast now has an innertemperature of 165 degrees so it’s timeto take them out of the Memphis woodfire grill let them rest for a couple ofminutes and then we’re gonna slice themup and start plating and that is how youmake a grilled lemon thyme chickenbreast with a wonderful feta salad onthe Memphis wood fire grill if you likethis recipe please subscribe to Memphisgrills YouTube channel or check outtheir website wwm fish grills comps formore recipes like this and I think theonly thing left for me is to try makesure that I get both the salad and thechicken on it and oh mana lot of of charred flavor from thechicken you can really taste a lemon andthe time and it just balanced perfectlywith the lightness of the cucumber thetomatoes and the feta cheese this is areally refreshing dish I hope you try itat home happy grilling man this is good