Easy grilled chicken recipe with Campbell’s grill sauce. Try them with teriyaki, lemon pepper , or cheddar applewood bacon sauce.
I know I am starting to sound like a broken record, but lately I feel like there is less and less time in a day to do all the things I need to do as a mom. Do you feel the same way? Sometimes after the kids’ karate lesson ends at 5:45 pm, I just haven’t gotten around to preparing dinner.
Why does that happen? After picking up the children from school, they want me to prepare snacks or smoothies. Then it’s schoolwork time, helping them with homework and projects. After schoolwork is complete, I insist on teaching them Japanese every day. I find that when I only teach them Japanese on weekends they don’t retain as much. On the days when we have piano lessons and swim lessons, there is even less time I can get to the kitchen. I applaud all the busy parents out there who manage to juggle their children’s activities and prepare home cooked meals each day.
The good thing is sometimes I do delegate some cooking duties to Mr. JOC: marinating the meat during the day so when he gets home from work he can grill, or asking him to pick up ingredients on his way home for a quick meal, like my many donburi recipes. Unfortunately there are more times than I could count when the meat’s not defrosted or there just isn’t enough time. I think as parents, we naturally want our children to enjoy home cooked meals and lately I discovered a quick way to make them with Campbell’s Grill Sauces. They are super easy to use and my family enjoys them, especially the Grilled Teriyaki Chicken one! The best part is, I can ask Mr. JOC to prepare and cook the entire meal from start to finish. This gives me a bit more time to help the children with their work, read to them, or work on my blog. Let me show you how easy it is to prepare: First, preheat a grill on medium high & oil the grates.
How to Prepare Grilled Chicken with Teriyaki Sauce (Step-by-Step Instructions)
Open your favorite Campbell’s Grill Sauce and heat over low heat in a sauce pan.
Butterfly the chicken breast. Butterflying is a really useful technique to create a uniform thickness throughout a piece of meat, so that it will cook more quickly and evenly. Turn the breast over and with the edge of a knife parallel to the cutting board, cut the length of the side of the breast. Carefully slice the breast in half width-wise almost to the other edge. Keep the edge intact and open the breast along the fold.
Season both sides of chicken breast with salt and pepper & steam some of your favorite veggies in a pot.
Grill breast for about 4 min, then rotate them 90° and grill for another 4 min. This will create the nice crisscross shape. Flip the chicken breast over and do the same.
Place the chicken on your choice of carb and pour the sauce over. Garnish with scallion and sesame seeds.
Now isn’t that surprisingly simple? 🙂
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I make meal lists so it is easy to pick one when I don’t necessarily feel like cooking.
My simple, time-saving tip is to make extra when you’re cooking so you only cook once instead of twice.
I feel exactly the same way. I never have enough hours in the day. Chicken teriyaki was the first Japanese dish I was introduced too and it remains a favourite dish of mine xx
Beautifully simple and delicious dish. Life is just busy and it only gets busier when they get older. The only way the after work and school insanity ended for me is moving to a country with public transportation and I am no longer the taxi driver. Enjoy the insanity as they grow up so fast. Take care, BAM
This is such a great idea for a quick weekend dinner!
my time saving tip is have the kids do it!!! once a week or so we have all of them get together and make dinner (its usually something that goes in the oven like ribs or chicken) but it sves me from having to work and then cook!
Simply damn delicious Nami!!!
Cooking an “extra meal” and putting it in the freezer!
I usually do this with meats, but some veggies work, like spinach.
I always wonder how other people manage all the activities, me and my husband work fulltime but we are lucky to have my mil living with us and taking care of the baby. He is not even 2 years old, but we already enrolled him in music, art and gymnastic classes, and with time his activities will increase, I just hope to be able to keep up 🙂
Also, love that you teach the kids Japanese, I think its so important to keep your “original” language in the family. We speak Romanian, and at home we ONLY speak to our son in Romanian, he knows just a few words in English, but that ok, he will learn English inevitably when he goes to pre-school in September. Communicating with him in our native language helps him have a relationship with the grandparents, since they don’t know English.
I use my crockpot and also make big batches of pasta or stews that I can freeze for a quick dinner later!
For just about any recipe that I’m going to make chicken for, I always make the chicken in the crockpot if it’s frozen. It saves me from having to cook it and then I can just add it to whatever meal I want.
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I like to prep as much as I can ahead of time. With two small children, cooking time consuming meals can really be a problem when they are underfoot. Thank you for the wonderful giveaway.
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