Perfect Picnic Grilled Chicken. Too often they're dried out or rubbery. But when soaked in a super-quick marinade — with balsamic, brown sugar, and dried thyme — you're. This recipe combine chopped Granny Smith apples, dried cranberries, celery, walnuts, and shredded chicken into a sandwich with sweet, sour, and creamy notes.

This chicken recipe takes the flavors of a Greek salad and manages to incorporate them into grilled chicken. Mint, oregano, dill, and parsley team up with lemon, garlic, tomatoes, olives, and feta for a perfect Greek bite. Leftovers are perfect folded into a pita for lunch. You can cook Perfect Picnic Grilled Chicken using 9 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Perfect Picnic Grilled Chicken

You need 12 piece of chicken legs, thighs & breast.
It's 1 cup of olive oil.
Prepare 1/4 cup of balsamic vinegar.
Prepare 1 tbsp of water.
You need 1 tbsp of salt.
Prepare 1/2 tbsp of black pepper.
You need 1/2 tbsp of garlic powder.
You need 1/2 tbsp of onion powder.
It's 1 tbsp of Italian seasoning.

It's the perfect side dish for a picnic, it can easily be doubled for a crowd, or you can add grilled chicken to make it a filling entree. —Danielle Miller, Westfield, Indiana Thick-sliced baguette makes a picnic-perfect sandwich: the bread won't get soggy as it sits! Always marinate the meat in the refrigerator. If using a marinade as a basting or dipping sauce, set aside a portion for later before adding it to the raw food. Place the chicken on direct heat to finish cooking through; this makes the skin extra crispy.

Perfect Picnic Grilled Chicken step by step

Put chicken in a bowl with all the ingredients & mix well & cover & refrigerate overnight..
Take chicken out of refrigerator 1 hour before cooking to get to room temperature..
Cook chicken on preheated grill on low temperature, turning & basting every 5 minutes with the marinade that's in the bowl & do not baste for the last 10 minutes of cooking. Should take about 30 minutes more or less depending on the size of the chicken pieces..

Turn sauced chicken as needed to prevent it from burning. It's always the sides that make the picnic, cookout, or barbeque! So, we picked out some of our favorite summer sides. These easy, healthy side dishes pair perfectly with main-dish picnic recipes like roasted salmon and grilled chicken breasts, and they're great options for the vegetarians in your crowd. Once covered, pop the chicken in the fridge.