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Chef critique

Grilled Lemon Chicken with Corn-Basil Relish

A cohesive and appealing summer grilling recipe, but the overall salt amounts are far too low and a formatting rule for bulleted lists was not followed.

Score: 6/10

Suggested fixes

  • Increase the total kosher salt in the ingredient list to 2 teaspoons.
  • Adjust the chicken marinade to use 1 teaspoon kosher salt.
  • Adjust the zucchini seasoning to use 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt.
  • Adjust the corn-basil relish to use 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt.
  • Convert the 3-item bulleted list for the zucchini seasoning into a standard prose sentence.

Issues

  • high / flavor: The recipe is significantly underseasoned. One pound of chicken requires about 1 to 1.5 teaspoons of kosher salt to reach a 1.25% salinity by weight, but only 1/2 teaspoon is used. The 12 ounces of zucchini and 2 ears of corn are also underseasoned with only 1/4 teaspoon of salt each.
  • low / clarity: The bulleted list used to season the zucchini contains exactly three ingredients (oil, salt, pepper). The recipe guidelines state that bulleted lists should only be used for mixtures of more than three ingredients.

Strengths

  • Efficiently utilizes the grill for all major components
  • Great use of overlapping timing (marinating while prepping veggies, grilling zucchini while chicken cooks)
  • Clear instructions with ingredient amounts properly brought into the text