Summer Favorite: Grilled Chicken and Grilled Peach and Arugula Salad

This is one of my absolute favorite meals to grill. If you are thinking grilled peaches sound weird,
I promise you should try it. Grilling gives the peaches an amazing flavor and it compliments grilled chicken or whatever you want to grill, very well. I found the original in Real Simple magazine several years ago, and have tweaked to make it work for 4 people better and added some notes about techniques for grilling.   We just buy a chicken marinade from the store to make it easy, but you could whip one up with a little olive oil, lemon juice and salt and pepper if you didn't want one. If you have grill like ours, the classic Webber, you are going to need to use foil like I do to keep the peaches and onions from falling through.


 




Grilled Chicken with Grilled Peach Salad

• 4 chicken breasts
• Good store bought marinade (we like the lemony herby ones)
• 2 tablespoons Olive Oil
• 2 medium red onions, sliced into 1/2 inch thick rings
• 4 peaches cut into wedges
• 4 cups baby arugula
• 2 tablespoons basalmic vinegar
• 1/4 cup of blue cheese
• salt and pepper

1. Marinade your chicken.
2. In a bowl combine the onions, peaches, ONE tablespoon of the olive oil, salt and pepper (about a teaspoon each).
3. Spread out the peaches and onions as well as you can in one layer on a makeshift foil tray. It's basically 2 pieces of foil where I fold up the edges to keep the veggies from falling off (picture below).
4. Put the Chicken and onions on the grill at the same time.
5. Turn the chicken occasionally until it's cooked through.
6. I put most of my attention on flipping the peaches and onions and moving them around as much as I can. You want to make sure they get a little char on them. This takes about 20-25 minutes.
7. Just after you pull the chicken and peaches and onions off the grill - prepare the salad. Toss the arugula with olive oil, vinegar, peaches and onions. Top with the blue cheese.
8. Serve chicken alongside the salad and you have an awesome healthy meal.

***Makes 4 servings
***2 on Bryce's Dish Scale. Other than the bowl you mix stuff in and the cutting board, its all on the grill!