Sweet Tea Grilled Chicken
(Last Updated On: August 4, 2020)Sweet Tea Grilled Chicken: Juicy chicken in a flavorful sweet tea marinade. Your favorite summer drink is now a main dish! #ad
Nothing says summer to me like grilling. The sizzle of meat, and the smell of charcoal make my mouth water.
Grilling at our home typically involves hotdogs, hamburgers, or a thick, juicy steak. However, this time I wanted to mix things up with something that doesn’t get a lot of love on the grill: chicken.
Besides grilling, another thing I associate with summer is Iced Tea! It’s not a summer day without sitting out on the porch with an icy cold glass of sweet tea! Why not incorporate it into a recipe?
I decided to combine two of my favorite things about summer into one great dish.
This Sweet Tea Grilled Chicken is easy enough for a weeknight summer meal, but delicious enough for a summer BBQ party. Slow down, relax, and make some #MomentsToSavor.
You can choose to enjoy it on a busy work night, or while lounging with friends on a lazy Saturday afternoon.
The chicken itself is marinated in Tradewind’sSlow Brewed Iced Tea for 24 hours. This really drives home a punch of flavor that permeates and tenderizes the meat.
Goes great with:
Sweet Tea Grilled Chicken
Ingredients
- 2 Cups Tradewinds Sweet Tea
- 1/4 Cup Kosher Salt
- 1 Vidalia Onion Thinly Sliced
- 1 Lemon Thinly Sliced
- 3 Cloves Garlic Minced
- 2 Fresh Rosemary Sprigs
- 1 Tablespoon Freshly Ground Black Pepper
- 6-10 Chicken DrumSticks
Instructions
- In a large bowl combine Tradewinds Sweet Tea, salt, onion, lemon, garlic, rosemary, and pepper.
- Pour marinade into a large baking dish, and cover. Marinate in the fridge for around 24 hours. You could also use a baggie if you’d prefer.
- Remove chicken from marinade, and pat dry with paper towels. Discard marinade.
- Heat grill for medium heat (around 350 degrees). Grill for about 10 minutes on each side until internal temperature reaches 165 degrees F,and juices run clear.
Nutrition
Adapted via My Recipes.
Tips:
If you don’t like drumsticks, chicken breasts would also be fabulous. Just be sure to adjust your cooking times (and appetite!) appropriately.
If you want an even more unique flavor twist, use flavored tea like raspberry instead!
Mouth watering for some Sweet Tea Grilled Chicken tonight? Head on over to https://www.tradewindstea.com/buy-tradewinds/ to pick some up today.
What a great idea! I’m a southern gal so we love sweet tea but I have never thought of using it as a marinade.
I love that you used the tea to marinate. What a wonderful idea for the chicken
Thanks Rosey!
Just the title had me interested!! What a great recipe and I already know I have to try it!
I hope you do Adaleta!
This recipe sounds interesting. I will try to recreate this at home. My boys love chicken and I am sure marinating it in tea would have a unique, distinct flavor they would love.
Hope you enjoy Annmarie!
Interesting recipe. I haven’t used tea as an ingredient in a marinade. I will try to do that. The chicken drumsticks look really good!
Drumsticks are the best! 😀
Wow, this is an interesting recipe that I am sharing with my mom. Always good to have new ways to serve chicken, other than fried 😀
So true, it can get boring after a while!
I love this. I might need to make this real real soon like this weekend.
The sooner the better right?!
What a clever idea, I am always looking for new and easy ways to season chicken.
This recipe sounds like it will be such a huge hit at my house. Dinnertime is about to step up a notch. Thanks for this recipe.
This chicken looks good but I can’t get past the ice tea. My adult son that does most of the cooking loves ice tea and said this sounds like a great idea to him. Two of his favorite things chicken and ice tea. He even has his pure leaf sweet tea stocked in his cupboard.