Grilled Chicken Breasts With Grapefruit Glaze

Vino Girl's Note:

From Food & Wine. The recipe doesn't specify this, but you may want to divide the glaze recipe, otherwise you are dipping a brush with raw chicken juices into it. I know when you boil the remaining glaze it's most likely quite safe, but I don't like to risk it.

• Total Time: 30 mins
• Prep Time: 10 mins
• Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 4

• 2 garlic cloves , minced
• 1 teaspoon grapefruit zest
• ½ cup grapefruit juice
• 1 tablespoon cooking oil
• 2 tablespoons honey
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ¼ teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
• 4 bone-in chicken breasts

Directions:

1. Light the grill.
2. In a small bowl, combine the garlic, grapefruit zest, grapefruit juice, oil, honey, salt, and pepper.
3. Grill the chicken breasts over moderately high heat, brushing frequently with the glaze, for 8 minutes.
4. Turn and cook, brushing with more glaze, until the chicken is just done, 10 to 12 minutes longer. Remove.
5. In a small stainless-steel saucepan, bring the remaining glaze to a boil.
6. Boil for about 1 minute, remove from the heat, and pour over the grilled chicken.

Reviews

[Sydney1126]

This was dinner for Easter 2009. We all liked it and will eat it again. I was very impressed with how easily this went together. I couldnt do it on the grill as it was too windy to do properly, so I did it in the oven. Amazingly enough the grapefruit juice is NOT overpowering in this. We do not really eat grapefruits, but this sounded so intriguing to me. I think next time I might double the glaze and use it as a marinade so all of the flavors can really get into the meat. I also used only 1 clove of chopped garlic. Next time I might try garlic powder as I dont care for pieces of garlic on the chicken. I wonder if instead of using fresh grapefruit juice, you could use frozen/concentrate to make it "stickier" for the glaze. The juice was awful "juicy". Now I am crious to try this with other citrus, like lime-ade, lemon-ade, orange juice or pineapple juice....hmmmmmm...I love recipes that send me into another direction :)