Chicken is a simple everyday product, but with the help of marinade you can create real culinary wonders with it. Marinade will help the chicken become more aromatic, juicier and softer, well cooked or baked.
Marinade recipes
For frying chicken in a pan
If you decide to cook the chicken in the pan, it is worth marinating it with tomatoes, mayonnaise, olive oil. After soaking the marinade, the chicken will become noticeably softer and more tender.
Tomato
Wanted:
- 2 tomatoes;
- 1 pod of Bulgarian pepper;
- 20 g of dill;
- 20 g parsley;
- to taste coriander;
- 60 g of mayonnaise;
- 60 ml of soy sauce.
Cooking: 15-20 minutes. Caloric content: 145 kcal.
Put the meat in a deep bowl. Grind the tomato, sweet peppers, greens and shift to the meat. Add spices to taste, mayonnaise, soy sauce. Mix well. Leave the meat in the refrigerator for a couple of hours so that the pulp is soaked.
With olive oil and herbs
Wanted:
- 1 lemon;
- 1 bunch fresh basil;
- 4 sprigs of thyme;
- 45 ml of olive oil;
- 5-6 g of salt;
- 1 pinch of freshly ground black pepper.
Cooking: 10 minutes. Value: 168 kcal.
Peel zest from a lemon with a fine grater, squeeze juice out of pulp. Rip basil leaves by hand. Combine in a deep dish butter, zest, lemon juice, basil, thyme leaves. Season everything with pepper, salt and mix. Put the chicken pieces into the marinade, mix well, leave for half an hour, so that the meat is soaked.
Grilling
To make the chicken covered with a beautiful crust, turn on the grill in the oven and pre-pick the meat in red adzhik by adding onion rings and butter.
You will need:
- 160 g onions;
- 30 g adjika red;
- 10 g of salt;
- 35 ml of an odorless oil.
It takes: 15 minutes. Value: 154 kcal.
Honey-mustard marinade for roasting chicken in the oven
Honey mustard marinade goes well with chicken meat, and it's easy to cook.
With mustard, honey and anisette
You will need:
- juice from half a lemon;
- 100 ml of anisette;
- 2-3 sprigs of thyme;
- 35 ml of olive oil;
- 20 grams of mustard grains;
- 15 g of honey;
- 2 pinches of black pepper;
- 5 g of salt.
Cooking time: 10-15 minutes. Value: 180 kcal.
Combine mustard with lemon juice, season with salt, pepper, add thyme leaves, olive oil, honey, mix everything. Pour anisette vodka, mix again. Pour the marinade over the chicken, leave for 30-40 minutes. Bake in a hot oven.
With honey, mustard and fragrant spices
Wanted:
- 60 g of mustard "Russian";
- 25 g of flower honey;
- 2-3 cloves of garlic;
- 1 pinch of coriander;
- turmeric to taste;
- 5 g of spirits;
- ground black pepper to taste;
- 5 g of salt.
Cooking: 15 minutes. Calorie: 177 kcal.
Mustard, pre-ground coriander seeds, turmeric powder, ground pepper, zira, finely chopped cloves of garlic, honey, salt well mixed. In this marinade stand chicken meat for half an hour.
With soy sauce
This marinade is prepared with different additives - with apple juice, Dijon mustard, sesame oil, garlic, ketchup. Do not be afraid to experiment, there is no mild French mustard - add a little Russian. No sesame oil - it will replace the olive.
With Dijon mustard
Wanted:
- 50 g of soft Dijon mustard;
- 200 g of ketchup;
- 50 ml of soy sauce;
- 50 g of chili sauce;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- 25 ml of lemon juice;
- 20 grams of sugar.
It will take: 10 minutes. The number of calories: 167.
Grind the garlic cloves into a mush or chop very finely. Combine mustard with ketchup, garlic, sauces, lemon juice, sugar. Put the prepared chicken in the marinade, leave for at least 15 minutes in a warm place for up to 10 hours on the shelf of the refrigerator.
With apple juice
Wanted:
- 300 ml of apple juice;
- 8 cloves of garlic;
- 25 ml sesame oil;
- 65 ml soy sauce;
- 30 grams of sugar;
- 1 large onion.
Cooking: 15 minutes. Caloric content: 175 kcal.
Apple juice combined with sesame oil, soy sauce, add mashed garlic, sugar, salt and mix thoroughly. Place the pieces of chicken in a special cooking sleeve, pour apple-soy marinade, fix the end of the sleeve and send it to the oven.
Marinades for smoking chicken
Smoked chicken is an inexpensive but always tasty dish. Add two spoons of 3% vinegar or lemon juice, spices, honey or sugar and get a great marinade.
With vinegar
Wanted:
- 15 g of salt;
- 30 ml of vinegar 3%;
- 5 g sugar;
- ginger root;
- coriander seeds;
- ground black pepper;
- 1 large clove of garlic;
- 6 juniper berries.
Cooking: 5-10 minutes. Caloric content: 163 kcal.
Pour water (1.5 liters) into the pan, put granulated sugar and salt. Send all other ingredients to the boiling water according to the recipe. Cool the marinade and pour the bird, placing the oppression on top. Leave for 3-4 days.
With honey
Wanted:
- ½ tbsp. lemon juice;
- 2 tbsp. l honey;
- 40 g of spices;
- 1 handful of chopped parsley;
- 2 large cloves of garlic;
- 10 g of salt;
- Fragrant and black pepper-peas.
It will take: 10 minutes. Value: 174 kcal.
Knead peppercorns. In a large container combine lemon juice with honey, spices, parsley, garlic, pepper.
Put the marinated chicken pieces and leave for 10 hours. Before smoking, clean the meat from seasoning.
How to Marinate Chicken Skewers
We offer you three marinade recipes for chicken meat shashlik. Thanks to the incredibly successful combinations of ingredients, these marinades are very fragrant. The fillet is enough to stand in the marinade for a couple of hours, and the legs can be left for a day.
With beer
Wanted:
- 3 large cloves of garlic;
- ¾ Art. beer;
- ¼ Art. soy sauce;
- 80 g of liquid honey;
- 10 g of Dijon mustard;
- 25 ml of olive oil;
- 1 pinch of chili.
It will take: 15 minutes. Value: 172 kcal.
Peel the garlic cloves, chop. Mix honey in mustard with mustard, butter, sauce, add chili, chopped garlic and pour beer. Stir well. Marinade pour chicken pulp, mix. Put in the fridge for two hours.
With wine
Wanted:
- 300 ml of kefir (can be replaced with natural yogurt);
- 200 grams of rye bread;
- 200 ml of dry white wine;
- 250 g onions;
- black pepper, salt.
It will take: 15-20 minutes. Caloric content: 165 kcal.
Pour wine into a saucepan, send to the fire. Put the crumb of rye bread, onion, chopped into a cube, cook for 10 minutes. Cool the cooked mixture and blend with a blender, pour in kefir, season with spices, mix everything thoroughly. Pieces of chicken pour the marinade, send to the shelf of the refrigerator. Marinate 3 hours.
With soy sauce
You will need:
- 250 ml of soy sauce;
- 250 ml of kebab ketchup;
- 1 handful of paprika.
It will take: 5 minutes. Calories: 159 kcal.
Combine in a large bowl sauce with ketchup, mix well. Put the prepared meat in marinade, sprinkle with paprika and put in the fridge. After a couple of hours, you can start cooking kebabs.
With honey and balsamic vinegar
Honey, which is used for marinade, goes well with mustard. Prescription balsamic vinegar is added, but you can take lemon juice - it will be no worse.
Required for 1 serving:
- 50 g of honey;
- 50 ml balsamic vinegar;
- 10 g of mustard;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- to taste basil, black pepper, salt.
Time: 10 minutes. The number of calories: 166.
In a bowl, mix honey with balsamic vinegar, mustard, chopped garlic, and spices. Add large pieces of chicken, marinate for about 40 minutes. Then cook in any way.
Useful tips
Choose spicy herbs for marinade at your discretion - you can take a dry mix of Provencal herbs, basil, thyme. We do not recommend to get involved in fresh rosemary. If you do not have onion on hand, you can take leek or red, did not find basil - no less tasty it will turn out with fragrant fresh dill.
For cooking smoked chicken marinade with the addition of acid. It can be 3% vinegar or lemon juice. It is good to use orange and lemon zest, adding olive oil, capers, basil, lemon juice, salt, pepper to it.
Chicken breasts recommend marinate in pomegranate sauce. To do this, take one pomegranate, 45 grams of yogurt, 20 ml of narsharab sauce, 5 cardamom pods, 1 pinch of sweet powder and salt. Squeeze 100 ml of juice from a pomegranate, combine it with narsharab, natural yogurt, sweet powder, crushed cardamom pods, season, mix well.
