4 ways to make the juiciest grilled chicken

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Lemon-garlic grilled chicken breasts.

Lemon-garlic grilled chicken breasts.

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Genevieve Ko

UNITED STATES – This smoky beauty of a recipe – with its juicy swirl of lemon and olive oil, its fragrant charred garlic and parsley – is mouthwatering in the primal way of fried drumsticks and saucy wings.

The leanness of the chicken breast, compared with the richness of increasingly popular thighs, gives the marinated meat a crystalline brightness, like a blue summer sky after a thunderstorm.

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