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This is my list of the 25 BEST Summer Grilling Recipes! These dishes are flavorful through and through and there’s something for everyone!
When it’s too hot to cook indoors, fire up the grill and let it do all your cooking!
Whether you’re looking for a delicious chicken breast or thigh recipe, steak, or seafood, I’ve got you covered. These are going to become your favorite things to make in the summer time. Summer grilling recipes are great when you have a cook out, or on a random weeknight when you don’t want to heat up the house.
And if there’s one thing you know, it’s that none of these recipes are boring!
If you’re looking to figure out where to start, my favorite recipes are the Peruvian chicken, steak fajitas, and anything with veggies!
Chicken Grilling Recipes
Easy Grilled Drumsticks
This is the easiest Grilled Drumsticks Recipe! When you're ready to cookout, toss the marinade in a bag the night before and let the chicken soak it all in. Then just toss on the grill until golden!
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Simple Asian Grilled Chicken
A simple and easy recipe for Asian grilled chicken! It’s a quick chicken marinade with soy sauce, minced garlic, rice vinegar, ground ginger, and one secret ingredient that makes the chicken SUPER tender!
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The Easiest Grilled Chimichurri Chicken
The BEST and EASIEST 2 ingredient grilled chimichurri chicken. We’re marinating the chicken breasts in prepared chimichurri sauce and grilling it up! So flavorful and hardly any work at all!
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Spatchcock Peri Peri Chicken (or Piri Piri)
The most delicious spatchcock chicken rubbed with homemade peri-peri sauce! Peri Peri Chicken is a whole chicken rubbed down with a spicy pepper sauce made from piri-piri or African bird’s eye chili peppers. Grill it outdoors or in the oven!
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Best Peruvian Chicken (Pollo a la Brasa)
The Best Peruvian Chicken Recipe (Pollo a la Brasa). This recipe requires no special equipment. All you do is prepare the marinade and allow the chicken to soak up all that flavor. Then toss it in the oven or on the grill. Serve Pollo a la Brasa with homemade green sauce.
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Chicken Shish Tawook
My authentic Shish Tawook recipe is absolutely perfect! These skewers start with an easy yogurt, lemon, and garlic marinade loaded with spices. Lebanese grilled chicken skewers are perfect to serve with rice pilaf or wrapped up in pitas with lots of garlic sauce!
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Easy Persian Chicken Kebabs
Marinated Joojeh Chicken – threaded onto skewers with peppers and onions that can easily be tossed on the grill all summer long. These Persian Chicken Kebabs are sure to become a family favorite!
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Greek Chicken Souvlaki Skewers
Greek Chicken Souvlaki skewers marinated in Greek olive oil, lemon juice, minced garlic, and Greek oregano. The marinade ingredients are simple but the flavors they yield are seriously amazing! Serve with tzatziki sauce and a Greek salad or wrapped up in warm pita bread with French fries on the side.
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Best Ever Chicken Fajitas
Learn how to make really flavorful chicken fajitas as home! This is my take on the tex-mex chicken fajitas and the flavors are incredible!
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White Cheddar Chicken Burgers with Caramelized Onions
Caramelized Onions White Cheddar Chicken Burgers will be a hit at your next cookout or on a weeknight for the family! The chicken patties are loaded with caramelized onions, lots of cubed cheddar cheese, and a few pantry staple seasonings. You can even swap the ground chicken for turkey and watch how quickly this becomes your favorite burger recipe!
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Chicken Satay with Peanut Dipping Sauce
Chicken Satay is a classic easy appetizer to serve with peanut dipping sauce. I love making it a main dish by serving this up with coconut rice and tossing the sauce with some veggies! Grill these chicken skewers and serve them up with my slightly sweet and slightly spicy peanut dipping sauce.
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Beef and Salmon Grilling Recipes
Adana Kebab with Sumac Onions
Turkish-style Adana Kebab is the perfect grilling recipe! Season the ground meat mixture generously, pop them onto skewers, and grill until seared. Serve with Sumac onions and fluffy bread.
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Mexican Hot Dogs with Charred Serranos
Mexican Hot Dogs are the most delicious way to eat a hot dog! Loaded with charred serrano peppers, mayonnaise, and a quick pickled jalapeno and tomato pico de gallo. Make them on a grill pan or the outdoor grill!
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The BEST Steak Fajitas
The absolute BEST Steak Fajitas you've ever had! This is my take on the tex-mex steak fajitas. Marinated for hours in lime juice, garlic, and cumin — so good you'll never use another recipe again!
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The Most Delicious Carne Asada
Homemade carne asada that melts in your mouth! Thinly slice carne asada, and serve in tortillas or over rice! The balance of flavors here is so delicious.
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Chili Lime Baked Salmon in Foil
The best baked salmon in foil recipe EVER! Brushed with my lime and chili sauce, dusted with a hint of cumin, and chipotle chili. This recipe is so easy to make and pulls together in less than 30 minutes! The salmon is so flakey and tender when baked inside foil.
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Marinated Mojo Steak Tacos with Quick Guac
Mojo steak tacos is one of my favorite taco recipes! Combine the marinade ingredients and add the flank or skirt steak. Grill and load it into homemade flour tortillas with your favorite toppings!
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Rockin’ Sweet Onion Mushroom Swiss Burgers
Learn how to make the BEST diner-style sweet onion and mushroom swiss burgers! The burger patty is juicy and perfectly seasoned, but it's the mushrooms and onions really take it over the top! Top it off with swiss cheese, and you'll see why it's so addicting!
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Banh Mi Burgers with Spicy Sriracha Mayo
Banh mi burgers made with a seasoned beef patty made on the grill or cast iron skillet topped with homemade spicy sriracha mayo, jalapeños, cilantro, and pickled carrots and daikon! So easy and so delicious — we can’t get enough!
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Salads, Vegetables, Sides, and Desserts:
Super Fresh Grilled Shrimp Salad with Honey Mustard Vinaigrette
A simple salad made almost entirely on the grill! We're grilling up romaine lettuce, shrimp, corn and bell peppers, and using it in this fresh grilled shrimp salad. Top it all off with my 4 ingredient honey mustard vinaigrette!
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Grilled Romaine Chicken Caesar Cobb Salad
A mash up of two salad! This grilled romaine chicken Caesar Cobb salad has all the things you love about caesar salad and a Cobb salad! Complete with quick garlic grilled chicken, this salad is sure to make bagged lunches a little more pleasant!
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Grilled Halloumi Watermelon Salad with Hot Honey Dressing
Grilled Halloumi Watermelon Salad is crispy, crunchy, and so refreshing! Salty halloumi cheese pairs beautifully with the sweet watermelon. And drizzled in a lime and hot honey dressing this salad is just so delicious!
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Grilled Zucchini Salad
Grilled Zucchini Salad with charred corn and sweet peppers! Dressed in a herby lemon dressing that brightens. Top it off with a handful of crumbled feta cheese and this is seriously going to be the only salad you'll want ALL SUMMER LONG!
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Mexican Street Corn (Elotes)
The perfect corn on the cob recipe for this summer! Mexican street corn is so easy to make at home. Corn that can be grilled or made in the oven with a garlic mayo, lime juice, cotija cheese, and chili powder for a little heat. Serve it for a barbecue party or enjoy them as a snack!
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Grilled Peaches with Cookie Crumble and Vanilla Ice Cream
Sweet and juicy grilled peaches topped with a quick and easy cookie crumble with toasted pecans – and it's all served with vanilla ice cream! This is the perfect summer weather dessert where you don't even need the oven! The grilled peaches are brushed with cinnamon butter hot off the grill, topped with a biscoff cookie crumble, and served hot with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on the side.
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If you’ve tried any of these summer grilling recipes, I’d love to hear what you’ve tried and enjoyed!
