Grilled Barbecue Chicken and Vegetable Foil Packs
Jun 24, 2015, Updated Jul 08, 2021
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Grilled Barbecue Chicken and Vegetable Foil Packs is such an easy recipe! Tender, flavorful chicken covered in sweet BBQ sauce and cooked on the grill inside foil packs with zucchini, bell peppers and asparagus.
If you’re looking for some other great grilling recipes, check out this Grilled Chicken Thighs with Brown Sugar Glaze recipe and these delicious Coconut Lime Grilled Shrimp & Summer Veggies in Foil Packs.
This Is The Ultimate BBQ Chicken Recipe For Summer!
Easy grilled chicken smothered with bbq sauce and topped with veggies is the ultimate summer food!! Each little packet is complete with tender, juicy and delicious meat and veggies.
Why, yes, I seriously AM showing you how to drench chicken in barbecue sauce, stick it in a foil-pack and grill it! It all started with FFWD…
Besides, if it wasn’t for foil-pack dinners, we wouldn’t survive. Okay, kidding! But still. It’s a good story.
SO! Hiiii, you guyyyyys! How are you? All is well? GOOD!
In this corner over here it’s a little past midnight, I’m chomping on Wheat Thins – reduced fat – and talking to you!
Why am I up this late, working?
Beeeecause… I went for a run on the treadmill at 10 pm and now I am friggin’ wired! I can’t fall asleep. I can’t even sit still. I could literally go for a Tarjay-run right this minute, if only Tarjay was open this late.
I’m also starving, and looking at this delicious grilled barbecue chicken is not helping. I could eat a horse. I won’t. But I could.
I occasionally pride myself on being able to throw together somewhat creative and delicious meals including chicken – which is something that someone must do when their only reason for not going vegetarian IS grilled chicken – and adding things like tons of sweet-with-heat barbecue sauce is something I could inhale day after day.
Come to think of it, we can never get enough of this. You just can’t stop taking, bite after bite… By the end of they day?!? Only crumbs remain. Seriously awesome chicken… seriously.
I’m a very fun girl, I promise.
This Chicken Has The Best Homemade BBQ Sauce
Okay so, the chicken and veggies are really incredible. I enjoy this more than the Italian Chicken I made for you last year. This is packed with enough flavor that I’d MAYBE consider eating it without the barbecue sauce. I’m lying.
The real winner here IS the barbecue sauce! AND I want to slather it on everything humanly possible.
P.S. Use YOUR favorite bbq sauce, m’kay? Cool.
ENJOY!
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Grilled Barbecue Chicken and Vegetable Foil Packs
Ingredients
- 8 aluminum foil sheets large enough to wrap around one chicken breast
- 4 (4-ounces each) boneless, skinless chicken breasts
- 1/2- cup barbecue sauce, (use your favorite)
- 1 zucchini, , sliced into thin rounds
- 1 red, , green or yellow bell pepper, cut into thin strips
- 8 asparagus spears
- salt and fresh ground pepper, , to taste
- extra virgin olive oil
Instructions
- Preheat the grill to medium-high heat.
- For each foil pack, prepare two sheets of aluminum foil; place the sheets one on top of the other for durability.
- Place one chicken breast on each stacked pair of foil sheets; season with salt and fresh ground pepper.
- Brush each chicken breast with 1 to 2 tablespoons barbecue sauce.
- Divide equally and arrange vegetables around each chicken breast; season with salt and pepper.
- Drizzle chicken and vegetables with little olive oil.
- Fold the sides of the foil over the chicken, covering completely; seal the packets closed.
- Transfer foil packets to the preheated grill rack and cook for 20 to 25 minutes, or until done, turning once.
- Chicken is done when thermometer reads 165 F.
- Allow the chicken to rest for a few minutes.
- Serve.
IF COOKING IN THE OVEN
- Preheat oven to 400F.
- Prepare chicken as directed above.
- Seal the packets closed and transfer to a baking sheet.
- Bake in the oven for 25 minutes, or until done.
- Remove from oven and carefully open up the foils; put the packets under the broiler for 3 to 4 minutes.
- Remove from broiler.
- Brush with more barbecue sauce. (optional)
- Serve.
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Nutrition
Nutritional info is an estimate and provided as courtesy. Values may vary according to the ingredients and tools used. Please use your preferred nutritional calculator for more detailed info.
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Can I use tenderloins for the packets? How much would that reduce the grilling time? I’m pretty new at grilling 🙂 And when you say turn it… Do you mean flip it?
Hi Lorlie! Yep, flip it. 😀 You can use tenderloins, but I would start checking for doneness a little sooner – at about the 17 minute mark. As long as the thermometer reads 165F or higher, they’re good to go. 🙂
I made this in the oven tonight at 400 degrees and it’s taken about 50 minutes to bake. I had to uncover it the last 10 minutes because the chicken was just not cooking. don’t count on a 25 minute meal if baking this recipe.
How do you get the grill marks on the food if it is wrapped in foil?
Hi Jennifer! Yeah, you can’t get grill marks if it’s in foil, but for the sake of a better photo, I removed the chicken from the foil once it was cooked, placed it on the grill for a few minutes to get the grill marks and then back in the foil to take the photo. 🙂
I was wondering the same thing- I don’t think it would look anything like the pics if made according to the recipe
Hi Holly! If you want the grill marks, once the chicken is done, remove it from the foil, place it on the grill for a minute or two on each side and serve.
Then why do the vegetables have grill marks as well
Hi Laurie! After all was cooked and done, I put them on the grill for maybe a minute or so, just to get those grill marks.
Great question, Katerina!
I made my husband read this recipe to see if he’d be interested in this dinner.
That was his first question.
I just gave him deer in the headlights look.
I’m going to make this tonight! Looks fantastic!
How did you get the grill marks if it was cooked in the foil packet?
Hi Debra! I took the chicken out of the foils and place them on a hot grill – I allowed it to sizzle for just about a minute on both sides, photographed it and served it.
…these are just some of the things we do for prettier pictures. 😉
I am seriously obsessed with these! It’s like my whoooole dinner in one little foil packet. Love, love, LOVE!
Can we start a petition to keep Target open 24 hours a day? Sometimes you just need to impulse shop in the middle of the night. And Walmart just doesn’t cut it.
I’m going to have my husband make this soon. It looks so good!
Oh I hate when I get wired after a late workout. And the hunger big man you were in a bad place 🙂 these pictures are fantastic though. I love the simplicity of this. I wouldn’t have thought to do it so yay you taught me something!!
WOW this looks great. I love that it’s so easy. I’m making this tomorrow night with vegetables on hand and my face homemade barbecue sauce. Thank you! 🙂
Love bbq chicken and how easy this dish is to make! Perfect for summer 🙂