Wine Marinated Chicken with Lemon & Rosemary
My big, tough husband has been plagued with scary dreams lately.
He does work installing high end home theaters and security systems, and has to crawl under houses to run the cables from room to room. Which basically means he crawls over rat poop and is surrounded by spiders and cobwebs.
Occasionally around 3am he’ll have a dream that he is in a crawl space and spiders start falling on him. He’ll start whimpering and scooching down the bed under the covers, as if he were in a crawl space trying to escape. The dreams seem too real to him, and it takes him a while to calm him down and be convinced he’s not under spider attack.
Me: Shawn, what’s wrong?!
Shawn: Spiders! A spider fell on my head!
Me: REALLY!?
Shawn: Ya, I was under the house and a spider fell right on my face!
Me: Under the house? *pauses, confused* I think you’re dreaming.
Shawn: No!
Me: Shawn, it’s the middle of the night and we were sleeping. You weren’t under the house. It was just a dream, you’re ok. There’s no spiders.
Shawn: Oh. Good.
Now that it’s happened WAY more than a few times, he’s much easier to calm down. He’ll start whimpering or scooching, and I’ll reach over, rub his arm, and say, “You’re dreaming again.” He’ll go, “Hmmm? Mmmm.” Then fall back asleep.
I’m basically a nightmare comforting pro.
Along with being a nightmare comforting pro, I’m now a wine marinated chicken dinner pro.
This wine marinated chicken is seriously a-ma-zing. The chicken breast is marinated in white wine along with lots of lemon zest, fresh rosemary and some garlic. Grill it up on the BBQ for even more flavor, and during the last minute of cooking you brush it with a rosemary olive oil mixture.
The wine marinated chicken is full of flavor yet it’s very light on calories, low carb, is gluten free and paleo. We’ve already made this wine marinated chicken twice this summer, and I see us making it many, many more times. I love it served along salad or roasted veggies.
Wine Marinated Chicken with Lemon & Rosemary
Ingredients
- 2 chicken breasts, about 6 ounces each (I get my chicken from ButcherBox, which I highly recommend)
- zest of 2 lemons
- 5 sprigs of rosemary, 3 of them removed from the stem and the leaves finely chopped
- 4 cloves of garlic, smashed
- 2 cups white wine, I use sauvignon blanc
- 6 tablespoons olive oil, divided
- salt and pepper
Instructions
- Make the marinade by combining the white wine, 3 tablespoons olive oil, lemon zest, 2 of the chopped stems of rosemary, 2 full rosemary sprigs, smashed garlic and the chicken. Marinated the chicken in a baking dish covered in saran wrap or gallon size ziploc bag. Marinate in the fridge for at least 2 hours, or up to 2 days.
- In a small bowl, make the olive oil rosemary mixture by combining the remaining 3 tablespoons olive oil and the last stem of finely chopped rosemary. Set aside.
- Preheat your grill over medium-high heat, and brush the grates with olive oil. Remove the chicken from the marinade and grill for minutes roughly 8 minutes per side, occasionally using a brush to baste the chicken with the wine marinade. Cook until the chicken is cooked thru and reaches an internal temperature of 165 degrees. During the last 1 minute of cooking brush both sides of the chicken with the rosemary olive oil mixture. Remove from heat and allow to rest for 3 minutes.
- Serve warm along with desired sides. Leftovers will keep in an airtight container for 5 days.
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31 Comments on “Wine Marinated Chicken with Lemon & Rosemary”
Oh poor Shawn!! Spiders nightmare is so disturbing.
Nat, I love everything that involves rosemary. This looks amazing/perfect! I must give this recipe a try ;-)
I’m always on the lookout for simple grilled chicken recipes, and this one looks delish! Love the lemon and rosemary in the marinade!
Poor Shawn! Spider nightmares are an extra kind of terrible. What’s not terrible though? This chicken. Those marinade flavors sound perfect for a grilled summer dinner. Yum!
Oh my gosh! I dream about spiders, snakes, etc. all the time. It is so disturbing and vivid. I wake up slapping my face lol. This dinner looks so delicious! Simple and elegant and totally summery! Yum! Also, wine makes everything taste delicious :)
I do not envy his job! I had a plumber come a few months ago and he had to crawl under my house. I always feel sorry for them. Scary under there! Love this recipe. We always use red wine, so I need try it with white! Your pic is so pretty with those whole-roasted carrots!
I love how packed full of flavor this chicken is, yet how simple it is to make! These are by far the best kinds of recipes! Totally making this! … and poor Shawn! My heart goes out to the two of you! ;)
Scary critter dreams are the worst! Mine usually involve snakes.
But I love this chicken recipe! We eat grilled chicken at least a couple nights a week during the summer. Pinning!
I love how absolutely simple/perfect this chicken looks! It would be perfect for dinner, or sliced over a salad…yum. Pinned! :)
Thanks Rachel! It’s such an easy way to turn boring plain chicken into a fabulous summer dinner. Hope you like it if you try it!
Poor guy – I hate spiders too and have had several nightmares about them. The chicken (and carrots) both look fantastic!
Well jeesh, poor guy! I hate spiders and can relate…but I do love simply prepared chicken and this one is a keeper :)
Kathi
Your poor husband, spiders are the worst, well maybe spiders and snakes. Anyway this chicken looks wonderful, love the marinade!
I’m feeling for your hubby! There’s nothing worse than scary spider dreams – good thing he has a nightmare whisperer sleeping next to him :).
He probably forgets all about it once he takes a bite of your chicken the next day! I love marinating chicken, especially in the summer. It’s hard to beat a well-marinated and seasoned chicken breast. So good!
Nightmares are the worst, especially when they involve small spaces and spiders! Poor Shawn! At least he has you there to calm him down :) I love to enjoy a glass of wine, or three, with dinner, but I’ve actually never used it for cooking! Since I love it by the glass, I know that I would love anything that was marinated in it. I will put this on my list of things to grill this summer :)
Spiders falling on your head?! That is a nightmare for sure!!! This chicken looks beautiful! And those carrots look amazing too!!!
I don’t envy Shawn’s dreams at all… yikes that does not sound like fun.
However, I love EVERYTHING about this recipe (especially the fact that it’s made with wine!)! Those carrots in the background look perfect, too!
Oh no, those dreams sound scary! Yikes. This chicken looks yummy and healthy! Win/win!
I absolutely love this marinade, anything cooked with wine is automatically that much better. At least in my book. Poor Shawn. I can relate, spider dreams are the worst! :)
Your poor hubby! Just imagining crawling under a dark space under a house and having spiders and the like falling on me makes me feel like I’m in a nightmare!
The chicken sounds like a perfect easy mid-week dinner, and I suppose easy to adapt to whatever herbs you happen to have. Definitely up my alley! :-)
So gorgeous! Lovin’ rosemary. And can’t wait to use it from my garden this year.
Scary spider dreams are the worst. :)
Have a beautiful day Natalie!
Poor Shawn! I swear, those spider kind-of dreams are the absolute WORST. And this chicken looks FAB. I love any marinated chicken and yours looks like it has the ultimate flavors! Beautiful photos, too! I wanna take a bite out of my screen. ;) Pinned!