Grilled Lemon Chicken Salad

This is healthy, fresh, and delicious.  My friend, Abby, made it for me and I needed the recipe!  You know that feeling when you have one too many slices of pizza?  Or when you eat a huge hamburger and fries and feel kind of ill?  This is the opposite of that feeling!

Grilled Lemon Chicken Salad

(Serves 6)

• 3/4 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice (4 lemons)
• 3/4 cup good olive oil
• 2 tsp kosher salt
• 1 tsp freshly ground pepper
• 1 Tbsp minced fresh thyme leaves
• 2 pounds boneless chicken breasts
• 1 cup raw sugar snap peas, stems and strings removed
• 1 red bell pepper, julienned
• 1 yellow pepper, julienned
• 1 lemon thinly sliced
• Dressing
• 1/4 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice
• 1/4 cup good olive oil
• Kosher salt
• Freshly ground pepper

Whisk together the lemon juice olive oil, salt, pepper and thyme.  Marinate the chicken in lemon juice/olive oil mixture overnight (or at least 6 hours).  Grill chicken and slice diagonally in 1/2 inch pieces.

Toss sliced chicken breasts with sugar snap peas, red and yellow bell peppers, lemon slices and dressing.  Serve cold or at room temperature.