Blackened Chicken Breasts

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A flat-perforated cookware is utile for searing and blackening. The cookware is preheated implicit nonstop vigor and provides a unchangeable aboveground that acts arsenic a buffer against the flames. After the chickenhearted is seared, it is finished implicit indirect heat; keeping it from getting excessively acheronian connected the extracurricular earlier it's cooked connected the inside.

Large (8-ounce) bosom halves are preferable to smaller ones, which tin adust retired much readily. Cut the cooked, rested bosom halves into thirds to make 8 portions.

See Chicken Grilling 101 for related accusation connected equipment, brines, cooking and handling tips.

The bosom halves tin beryllium prepped for cooking respective hours successful advance, but bring them to country somesthesia for a half-hour earlier grilling.

From Real Entertaining columnist David Hagedorn.

Ingredients

  • 6 eight-ounce boneless, skinless chickenhearted bosom halves (tenders removed), preferably brined for 2 hours (See box)
  • Kosher salt
  • 7 tablespoons Red Rub oregon your preferred spice hitch (see related recipe)

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (unbrined chicken)

  • Calories

    210

  • Fat

    3 g

  • Saturated Fat

    1 g

  • Carbohydrates

    4 g

  • Sodium

    770 mg

  • Cholesterol

    100 mg

  • Protein

    40 g

  • Fiber

    2 g

  • Sugar

    2 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Real Entertaining columnist David Hagedorn.

Tested by David Hagedorn.

Published May 11, 2010

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Updated March 13, 2026

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