Name: Lemonade Chicken Marinade for Grilling
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 1 min
Ingredients: 3 Garlic Cloves; 1 Lemon; 1 tbsp Granulated Sugar; ½ tsp Italian Seasoning; ⅛ tsp Garlic Powder; ½ cup Olive Oil

This 5 minute chicken marinade for grill has it all – it is extremely flavorful, easy to make, and so delicious!

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You can make this yummy grilled chicken marinade with just a few ingredients you already have in your pantry, and get your chicken marinated in just 5 minutes! This marinade has it all, lemon juice and zest for tang, sugar for caramelization, garlic and Italian Seasoning for your favorite flavor.

This marinade will have you say winner, winner chicken dinner, when you use it for grilled chicken! Next time you are looking to make grilled chicken, make sure to make this amazing chicken marinade for grilling!

Tools For Making Grilled Chicken Marinade

You only need a few tools to make this delicious lemonade marinade for grilled chicken.

– Cutting Board, to chop garlic for this delicious marinade.

– Kitchen Knife, to chop garlic and to cut lemons for juicing.

– Lemon Zester, to get the flavorful lemon zest

– Lemon Juicer, to juice the lemons for fresh lemon juice.

– Glass Cup, for mixing the ingredients together. Or, you can use a small mixing bowl to mix the chicken marinade ingredients together.

Ingredients For Making Marinade For Grilled Chicken

You need just a few ingredients to make this amazing, the best chicken marinade. Here is what you will need:

– Garlic

– Lemon

– Garlic Powder

– Sugar

– Italian Seasoning

– Olive Oil

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What is Lemonade Marinade for Grilled Chicken?

Grilled chicken lemonade marinade (it rhymes!) is a delicious marinade made out of commercial lemonade and other flavorings, such as garlic, soy sauce and spices.

This marinade for grilled chicken is made from scratch, without using store bought lemonade.

Because I always interested in making a recipe healthier, without losing any of the flavors, I decided to use the lemonade flavors (sugar and lemons), but make the marinade from scratch myself, so that I can control how much sugar and how much lemon I use in it.

I am still using sugar in this marinade recipe for chicken thighs and breasts, as it is sugar that will caramelize the chicken, as it grills. But I am able to control the amount of sugar in this marinade much better.

Should I Buy Grilled Chicken Marinade Or Make It?

If there is a certain chicken marinade that you really like, you can buy it.

However, chicken marinade costs money, and sometimes you buy it, use some of it once and then the rest of it just sits in the refrigerator without being used.

When you make it, you make just as much as you need, without wasting anything. And, you can use healthy ingredients, and make it to your own liking.

There are many ways to add different flavors to the lemonade grill chicken marinade, to give it a different spin. See below for tips and recommendations of different ingredients.

How To Make Lemonade Chicken Marinade For Grill

It is so simple to make this delicious chicken marinade grill. Here is how to do it in just minutes:

Zest the lemon. Then, use the lemon juicer to make lemon juice.

Chop the garlic.

In a glass measuring cup, combine chopped garlic, lemon zest and lemon juice, Garlic Powder, Sugar, Italian Seasoning and Olive Oil and mix the ingredients together.

That’s it, the marinade is ready, and you can now use it to marinade chicken thighs or chicken breasts. See, I told you this was a very simple recipe. Now, you can use it to marinade chicken, grill it and then serve it with Best Air Fryer Asparagus and Air Fryer Sweet Potato Fries.

Variations for Grilled Chicken Marinade

Here are more ideas for making changes to this delicious poultry recipe, to add different flavors, and put different spins on it.

– If you don’t want to use Sugar in the recipe, you can skip it. The marinade for chicken will still be super flavorful and delicious.

– You can also add a bit of honey instead of sugar, if you prefer honey flavor.

– You can use Oregano instead of Italian Seasoning for a Greek spin on the recipe.

– Use Rotisserie Chicken Spice Mix instead of Italian seasoning to add delicious flavors.

– Love Cajun flavors? Use Cajun Seasoning instead of Italian seasoning.

– Add a bit of soy sauce for an additional layer of flavor

– Use Taco Seasoning and replace lemon with lime for a delicious limeade chicken marinade

How To Use Lemonade Marinade

What can you use this delicious lemon and garlic recipe for? Of course, you can use it for chicken. Chicken wings, chicken breasts, chicken thighs, or any other parts of chicken that you are planning to grill, this is a delicious marinade to use.

You can also use it for other items to marinade before grilling them, such as pork chops, pieces of turkey, or vegetables.

Pro Tips For Making Lemonade Chicken Marinade Recipe

– Love lots of garlic flavor? Garlic Powder is optional for this recipe, and you can add a bit more for even more delicious, garlic flavor.

– We chop garlic for this recipe, but you can also use garlic press to process garlic.

– Since you need to zest and juice the same lemon, make sure to zest first, then juice. If you juice the lemon first, it would be harder to zest it.

– To get the juice out of the lemon, zest it first, then cut it into halves. Then, microwave the lemon halves for about 20 seconds and then use lemon juicer to get the juice out of the lemon.

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