Keep your chicken dinner ridiculously simple with this easy Italian Chicken Marinade!
Yep ~ that’s right… it’s the Easy Italian Chicken Marinade!!
You know how much I love easy recipes, and this is one of my family’s favorites ~ about as easy as it can get!
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Easy Italian Chicken Marinade
Easy Italian Chicken Marinade!
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Keep your chicken dinner ridiculously simple with this easy Italian Chicken Marinade!
Author: The Frugal Girls
Recipe type: Entree
Cuisine: Italian
Serves: 4
Ingredients
- 3 pounds Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts
- 8 ounces Italian Dressing
- 3 Garlic Cloves, minced {optional}
- ½ White Onion, sliced {optional}
Instructions
- Add all ingredients to Freezer Ziploc Bag.
- Place in the refrigerator to marinate, turning and flipping every few hours if desired.
- When ready for dinner {after several hours of marinating, or up to a day later}, remove the chicken from the bag, toss the marinade out, and get ready to grill!
- Grill your pre-marinated chicken on the grill outside {8 minutes on each side at 400 degrees}, or on a grill pan inside.
- If you’re not ready to cook it yet… after adding the chicken and marinade to the bag, place directly in the freezer for some pre-marinated chicken later! {just pull out of the freezer, and defrost in the fridge… letting all of the yummy flavors soak into the chicken} prior to cooking.
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It’s SO easy… we’ve even taken this camping, and grilled it on our little bbq at dinner time for a nice alternative to burgers and hot dogs! 😉
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H. Harris Hatfield says
September 11, 2015 at 9:40 amGreat recipes.
Heidi says
September 13, 2015 at 1:59 pmAww ~ thank you… so glad you’re enjoying the recipes! 🙂
Betsy @ Anna Nimmity says
August 30, 2012 at 4:29 pmThis is my kind of recipe! I’m pinning this so I remember to try it. Thanks, Heidi!
Kerri white says
August 28, 2012 at 9:57 amI cook the chicken in the marinade, at the end the chicken gets carmalized with the yummy Italian dressing, we serve it with rice and veggies, super yummy!! I also like the use the white meat tenderloins for this recipe, they seem to absorb more flavor!
judybird2 says
August 29, 2012 at 3:37 pmI have been making this for years and everyone always raves about it. Like another commenter, I just bake my chicken in the oven in the Italian dressing, just pour it right over the top of the chicken. People fight for seconds on this and also want extra of the marinade that baked with the chicken. They will dip every bite of chicken into it, and always ask for my recipe. They looked puzzled when I say ” sure, pour Italian dressing over chicken and bake it”. They can’t believe it is that easy. I even cooked for awhile for some rich people and some of their dinner guests would beg for my recipe. Told them the same thing. I have not tried just marinating the chicken in the dressing and then grilling, but I bet it is delicious, am going to try it.