Lager Lemon Chicken

As of late, it may seem to you all that I haven’t been cooking.

Sure, I’ve been posting, but any recipes are from back in Paris, and since I left Paris over a month ago, it appears, from this blog, that I have not been cooking at all since I left. Well, I gotta tell ya, it’s simply not true… and taken completely out of context.

While I did take a short (OK, month-long) break from cooking, for the past two weeks I’ve had my very own hot plate to cook for my very own Canadian again. I’ve just been moving through my photo archives instead of posting the more recent stuff.

But that all ends here, my friends. Today, I have to show you what I made for dinner last night, because it’ll knock your socks off. (My best friend growing up got very upset with his uncle when he told him this and then the socks did not actually fly from his feet. It was very, very sweet. And also kind of sad.)

So, without further ado, I bring you Lager and Lemon Grilled Chicken. I found the recipe through Gretchen at Canela and Comino, but originally it’s from Cooking Light (bonus points!)

It’s supposed to be grilled chicken, but since all I have is a stovetop, I seared the chicken on both sides in a little bit of olive oil, and then I poured the rest of the marinade in so that the chicken could poach in it. Once the marinade had reduced by about half, I served the chicken, along with the marinade as a sauce, over zucchini.

The only other changes I made were to halve the garlic cloves and throw them in the marinade instead of mincing them, and to also throw in two of these green not-too-hot peppers that I bought in bulk at my Spanish grocery store thinking they were spicy jalapenos only to learn that they were… well… not.

You must go try this chicken now. It is so amazingly flavorful, ridiculously easy and actually good for you! All is well with the world!