These grilled boneless chicken thighs are the best summer recipe, with an amazing chicken thigh marinade with a spice blend of simple ingredients you already have in your pantry. This dark meat recipe for chicken will give you the best results for the best flavor when you let the chicken marinade for at least 3 hours but up to 24 hours overnight.
So prep this chicken recipe for an easy yet tasty weeknight dinner recipe that you can easily throw on the grill, and serve it with your favorite side dishes to complete the meal.
Recipe Ingredient Notes
To make our grilled boneless chick thighs, you need the following ingredients:
- Oil: we use olive oil for this recipe but you could also use avocado oil as well
- Lemon juice: fresh lemon juice is always best, but lemon juice concentrate will work in a pinch too!
- Balsamic vinegar: This will provide the added depth of flavor to these amazing boneless chicken thighs, so don’t skip it!
- Honey: raw honey, local honey, any and all of it will work great!
- Worcestershire sauce: another sauce you want to make sure you have on hand, this is a key pantry staple in our house!
- Garlic powder: if you don’t have garlic powder available you can also used mince garlic too, but garlic powder can distribute better for the boneless thighs.
- Onion powder: easily found in the season section of your local grocery store and great for so many other recipes!
- Oregano: this spice will add the sweet heat that you want for this boneless skinless thighs recipe.
- Boneless chicken thighs: chicken wings or boneless skinless chicken breasts would work as well!
- Salt: pick your preference, kosher salt, sea salt, or pink Himalayan salt will do.
- Pepper: ground black pepper works best for this recipe.
Equipment Needed
For this recipe, you only need a few simple kitchen tools. We recommend using the following equipment:
How to Make Grilled Boneless Chicken Thighs
- Make the marinade. Whisk together the olive oil, lemon juice, balsamic, honey, Worcestershire sauce, garlic powder, onion powder, and oregano.
- Marinade the chicken. Place the chicken in a large freezer bag and pour the marinade over the meat. Seal the bag and massage the contents of the bag to coat the chicken evenly in marinade. Refrigerate for 1 hour.
- Prep the grill. Preheat the grill to medium-high heat (~400°F) and brush the grate with olive oil.
- Grill. Remove the chicken from the Ziploc bag and season it with salt and pepper on both sides. Place the chicken on the grill, presentation side up, cover the grill, and cook for 5 minutes. Flip the chicken, cover the grill again, and cook for an additional 5 minutes or until the internal temperature of the largest piece reaches 160°F.
- Rest. Allow the chicken to rest for 5-10 minutes before serving.
Recipe Notes
For this recipe we are using boneless chicken thighs, however, that does not mean you need to use the same piece of chicken. This will work for all parts of the chicken, chicken breasts, chicken wings (YUM), drumsticks, or even just bone-in chicken thighs too! It is the best chicken marinade to get flavorful juicy chicken.
Storage Suggestions
Fridge: store any leftover chicken thighs in an airtight container for 3-4 days for the best results.
Marinating: Enjoy amazing flavor by doing the meal prep for this dish the day before and let the flavors of the marinade penetrate the chicken producing super flavorful and juicy chicken thighs.
Serving Suggestions
We recommend serving this recipe with our Instant Pot Corn on the Cob, Creamy Pasta Salad, Easy Potato Salad. You can find more classic American recipes here.
Frequently Asked Questions
If you want to make these boneless chicken thighs a little bit sweeter, you can always add 1 tbsp of brown sugar or even a little bit of bbq sauce to the sauce mixture and mix it all together.
Three are a few options for making these thighs nice and spicy. You can mince up a jalapeno and include it in the sauce, pour in a little bit of hot sauce or even a little sriracha sauce will do the trick too!
With this marinated chicken you definitely can skip any sort of preseasoning of the chicken. The marinade ingredients have so many great flavor profiles that will bring a taste to this boneless chicken thighs recipe. So skip this if you normally do this for your chicken recipes.
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Grilled Boneless Chicken Thighs
Ingredients
- ½ cup olive oil
- ¼ cup lemon juice
- 3 Tablespoons balsamic vinegar
- ¼ cup honey
- 2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- 3 teaspoon garlic powder
- 2 teaspoon onion powder
- 1½ Tablespoons oregano
- 2 pounds boneless, skinless chicken thighs
- ¼ cup olive oil, for grill grate
- 2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon pepper
Instructions
- Make the marinade. Whisk together the olive oil, lemon juice, balsamic, honey, Worcestershire sauce, garlic powder, onion powder, and oregano.
- Marinade the chicken. Place the chicken in a large freezer bag and pour the marinade over the meat. Seal the bag and massage the contents of the bag to coat the chicken evenly in marinade. Refrigerate for 1 hour.
- Prep the grill. Preheat the grill to medium-high heat (~400°F) and brush the grate with olive oil.
- Grill. Remove the chicken from the bag and season it with salt and pepper on both sides. Place the chicken on the grill, presentation side up, cover the grill, and cook for 5 minutes. Flip the chicken, cover the grill again, and cook for an additional 5 minutes or until the internal temperature of the largest piece reaches 160°F.
- Rest. Allow the chicken to rest for 5-10 minutes before serving.
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The marinade for these chicken thighs is going to be a family favorite!
This was oustanding!