Crunchy Smoked Chicken with grilled apricots, basil, and honey
Description
The PERFECT non fried, fried chicken. For some reason I was really craving fried chicken, but I hate using so much oil. Thus, this recipe was born! The chicken is crazy flavorful and the panko adds the perfect crunch. You could grill any fruit or veggi along side this dish and it would work perfectly
Scale
Ingredients
- 4 chicken breasts
- ½ cup Grainy Dijon mustard
- ½ cup buttermilk
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- zest of one lemon
- 2 cups Pork Panko breadcrumbs
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- S&P to taste
- 4 Apricots, halved
- 4 T Basil, chopped
- 2 T Honey
Instructions
- Put the chicken pieces in a large zip lock baggie and mix in the buttermilk, garlic, and the mustard.
- Marinate a minimum of 2 hours and up to overnight.
- Set grill to 400F
- Combine crumbs, lemon zest, salt and pepper in a shallow bowl. Drizzle in the olive oil and mix.
- Remove chicken from bag and press each piece of chicken into the crumbs. The marinade will help the crumbs stick. Press the crumbs in with your hands to completely coat the top.
- Set the chicken (crumb side up) on a foil or parchment lined sheet pan. Press any extra crumbs into the chicken.
- Place sheet pan on the middle rack and cook for 30 minutes. Add the sliced apricots to the grill grates and cook an additional 10 minutes until chicken is done and apricots are warmed with blackened grill marks.
- Serve the chicken with the apricots, top with basil and honey.
