This smart idea comes from The Woks of Life.

Simply Recipes / Frank Tiu

Grilled chicken breasts are my culinary Achilles heel.

I make them all the time, but I still haven’t mastered how to do them well consistently.

grilled chicken on a plate

Simply Recipes / Frank Tiu

No one wants to find undercooked chicken after it comes off the grill.

Yes, you read that correctly!

I was skeptical, too.

sliced grilled chicken over a bed of salad greens and halved cherry tomatoes in a bowl

Simply Recipes / Frank Tiu

Lets just say I have finally mastered perfectly juicy grilled chicken.

Now, lets discuss why this works.

The Woks of Life method combines a few techniques into one easy-to-prepare grilled chicken recipe.

Next, water is added.

But you don’t just dump it in.

Marinate the chicken as you normally would, for at least a couple of hours or overnight.

I do not own a cleaver, so I used a meat mallet to help break down the chicken.

Once placed on the gas grill, the chicken cooked beautifully in about four minutes per side.

Thankfully, with this recipe, I can cross this culinary quandary off of my list.