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If you love a classic lemon and basil flavor profile, you're in for a delightful surprise. Place the chicken on the grill with soaked lemon slices on top). Cook until chicken is completely cooked through.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook lemon garlic basil orzo with grilled chicken using 9 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Lemon Garlic Basil Orzo with Grilled Chicken:
- Get 3 cups cooked orzo(1 1/2 cups uncooked)
- Make ready .75 oz fresh basil fine chopped (reserve 3tbsp for service)
- Get 2 large garlic cloves minced
- Take Zest of 1 large lemon
- Take 1 lemon
- Make ready 1/2 cup peas
- Take Salt
- Get 5 tbsp unsalted butter lemonade pepper season
- Take 2 boneless skinless chicken breasts
This lemon orzo salad also includes grilled chicken breasts, seasoned very simply with salt and pepper. After the chicken comes off the grill, it's shredded into bite-size pieces and folded into the lemony salad. Feel free to bulk up this salad with more grilled chicken for an even bigger protein boost. It would be phenomenal in any salad-type recipe calling for cooked or grilled chicken.
Steps to make Lemon Garlic Basil Orzo with Grilled Chicken:
- Salt your water and boil the orzo until aldente, strain and rinse to stop the cooking.
- Add 2 tbsp of butter to a pan a cook the garlic until fragrant. Add juice of half a lemon and cook for an additional few minutes
- Add 3 tbsp of butter until the sauce thickens
- Add the pasta and the peas and a couple pinches of salt and heat through. Add the basil for a few minutes followed by Parmesan cheese, up to you how much. Taste for salt or additional lemon juice and serve with lemon pepper chicken. Finish with some fresh basil if you have it.
Avocado Chicken Salad Grilled Chicken Orzo Salad with Honey Lime Dressing Grilled Chicken Cobb Salad Chopped Greek Chicken Salad Greek Chicken Burritos Add it to either of these salads: Orzo Salad with Basil, Tomatoes and Feta or Summer Roasted Vegetable Orzo. Make this orzo pasta salad a meal-in-one by adding rotisserie chicken, lemon basil chicken, Greek chicken, lemon garlic shrimp, salmon, pork, steak or crispy bacon. You can also go more Italian and add chopped pepperoni, chopped summer sausage or salami. Pat chicken dry using paper towels and place in a large resealable plastic bag. Combine lemon peel, lemon juice, garlic, salt, oil and basil in a blender or food processor.
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