Grilled Chicken & Veggies

Occasionally, there’s a meal plan that comes together so well you just can’t resist sharing it… That would be this one – good enough for family, easy enough for almost any day and pretty enough for company. YUM!

Grilled Chicken & Veggies

Slice chicken breasts to 1/2 inch thickness and lay out on large platter.

Sprinkle with a healthy amount of Worcestershire sauce and allow to rest for about ten minutes.

Set grill to medium heat and chop vegetables to fit on skewers.
(We like peppers, broccoli, cauliflower, onion and celery on ours.)

Lightly season all with salt and pepper – lemon pepper is really good here.

Drizzle a bit of lemon juice over veggies and place on upper rack of grill.

Place chicken on lower rack, close grill for 7 minutes.

Flip chicken, close grill for 5 – 7 minutes.

Veggies will be tender crisp and chicken will be done. Serve with steamed rice if desired.

Prepare one skewer of veggies and a slice of chicken for each person, rice per serving needed.

We particularly love the veggies on skewers, because they’re fun to eat that way.

Corn OFF the Cob Salad

This is a summer favorite at our house – you can’t miss with grilled corn, it’s so sweet and delicious, everyone loves it!

Grill corn for about 10 minutes to create black grill marks on corn.

Fry up a pound of bacon and break it into pieces.

Toss Spring Greens with Spinach leaves and red onion rings for salad base. Lightly toss in some bacon and the grilled corn you’ve sliced off the cob.

Top with a Sun-dried tomato vinaigrette dressing with a bit of extra honey for that natural sweet flavor.

If serving this for dinner, add some sliced boiled egg, shredded cheese and a crusty bread. You’ve got a great meal for a few cents per person!

Colorado Recipes – Original Mountain Flavor

I’m often asked if Colorado offers a specific cuisine. Yes, I believe we do offer an amazing local cuisine, native to the plains and the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.

Colorado Recipes abound.

grilled beef steakGrowing up here on the plains, I vaguely remember the massive steak dinners my parents served to guests. We raised our own grain fed beef, so the table was often laden with massive platters of beef steak.

Season with salt and pepper, a bit of garlic powder and sliced onion sizzling in the pan, these delectably perfectly prepared steaks were melt in your mouth tender, a centerpiece on the table. So tender they could be cut with a fork, the steaks had you drooling in anticipation from the first hint of smokey wood on the grill.

Trust me, nothing satisfies like steak. A tasty Colorado buffalo grass grown beef steak can do what nothing else can do – fill you up with goodness. Easy on the seasonings, a little fresh rosemary on top goes a long ways toward tantalizing those within wafting distance.

A Colorado recipe steak is cooked with more love than butter, seared on a hot grill and hot through the middle. YUM!

Grilled Chicken with Peach-Dill Chutney

Yum… this was a delicious dinner tonight.

Both boys commented about the unusual limy/peach flavor in the sauce over the chicken. So, thumbs up to different flavors.

Grilled Chicken -

Chicken breasts for however many you’re feeding dinner.

Grill 1/2 onion (per serving) sliced in a hot skillet until blackened. Add in 1/2 peach (per serving) diced in bite sized pieces. Sprinkle dill seed liberally over chicken on grill and onions in pan. (I used about a tablespoon for five chicken breasts.)

Grill chicken separately until tender and blackened.

Add chicken to skillet, lift onions and peaches over top of chicken. Sprinkle with a little salt and pepper to taste. Cut two limes in half and drizzle over everything. Allow juice to sink to bottom and sizzle in pan. Add 1 1/2 cup Tropical V-8 Splash and simmer to thicken.

Serve with white or brown rice and fresh green salad for a delicious meal.

Blackened onions and peaches make a delicious sauce over the chicken and rice.

This summer dish was a crowd pleaser tonight!