Recipe for chicken marinade balsamic vinegar
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They all use 5 ingredients or less and are gluten free. This year I’ve decided to try and stop my 4pm summer supermarket dashes and get organised by making my own marinaded meats and storing them in the freezer ready for when outside cooking calls. I hope this post is useful as it has lots of tips and advice about how to make these chicken marinades work for you. There’s spicy, BBQ, asian style, lemon and herb, piri piri and sticky honey options. Pick your fave and off you go! Each marinade has 5 ingredients or less. Suitable for grilling, oven cooking, barbecue cooking or slow cooking.
Batch prep now, and enjoy later when the sun is shining! I need to marinate chicken in? I have previously always used plastic bags for these chicken marinades. So I’m on the hunt for reusable plastic bags to store them in. I’ll update the post when I’ve tested some! I usually mix the marinade straight into it until well combined, then coat the chicken breasts. Chicken breasts need to marinate for at least 1 hour in the fridge.
Chicken thighs, I tend to give at least 2 hours in the fridge. So marinating overnight is fine for the Honey and Mustard, Italian, Pesto, Sticky Soy, and Jerk Chicken recipes contained in this post. Those that do have acid in, if you marinade longer than 2 hours, you can find that the chicken changes texture a little, to become a bit mushy. It’s never bothered me to leave them for longer than 2 hours, but I’m just warning you in case you do leave chicken breasts in an acidic marinade and find this. Put the chicken and marinade into the plastic bag and squish out all of the air. OR if you don’t have time for this, freeze immediately. If you do this make a note on the bag, that when they are fully defrosted and you come to use them, they need an hour sitting in the marinade before cooking.
Pop them safely into the freezer. I use all of these frozen marinades by defrosting in the fridge overnight or for at least 5 hours. I pull a bag out in the morning, and it’s ready by dinner time. I have to say, I find the texture isn’t quite as good if they’ve been microwaved and I ALWAYS end up over cooking them.
There’s a good BBC article here on different ways to defrost if you do fancy trying the other methods. I find that cooked from frozen chicken is so tricky to not overcook trying to be sure that it’s cooked through that it is never quite right. 4 ingredient chicken marinades, or even 3! Of course you don’t need all of them, just whichever relate to the recipe you choose. This is only used in the Jerk Marinade, and it is really needed. It’s the thing that gives that distinctive Jerk flavour. It’s NOT the same as Mixed Spice!
Invest in a fairly good quality one and you’ll notice the difference. When this is used in a spicy chicken marinade, you can vary the amounts of this according to your taste. You could also substitute in chilli powder or even sweet chilli sauce if you don’t have them. It’s just a dried, blended garlic. I like using it for marinades as it’s super quick and easy and also doesn’t leave lumps of garlic at the bottom of the bag. But the pastes or frozen preprepared versions are BRILLIANT. For most of these marinades I used a good Italian dried herb mix.
