Marinating is a very scrupulous and creative process. The sauce, in which the meat is soaked, not only gives a certain taste, but also breaks down protein fibers, due to which the product is softened. This is especially true for chicken breastsbecause this part is relatively dry.

   It is best to pickle products suitable for pickling, since it is it that eats away meat. Usually for these purposes use ingredients such as lemon and pomegranate juice, vinegar, kefir, dry wine and even some exotic fruits. The easiest and not original way to pickle chicken is to buy purchased mayonnaise, ketchup, horseradish or mustard (everything can be together) and mix with garlic, olive oil, salt, pepper and spices. Spices suit any, according to your taste. Spicy herbs, curry, paprika, oregano - the best way to set off the taste of game.


The softness of the meat is inexpressible! By the way, this marinating is particularly suitable for chicken breast, duck and turkey. What you need? 1 kg of selected breast, 7 tbsp. š. soy sauce, 70 g of vodka. Cut the chest along the thin strips. Mix vodka with soy sauce  and pour the meat. Cover the bird and hold it for 1-1,5 hours.

As time passes, remove the poultry strips, drain them with a paper towel, and cook or fry. He always softens meat perfectly. And do not be afraid because of the effects of alcohol: its degree, fussing about meat, evaporate, and it does little to harm human health.

   Instead of mayonnaise and ketchup, you can take soy sauce. In this case, salt should be put less. The original sweet and sour taste will be in the chicken, if you mix the soy sauce with honey. Or honey with the juice of one lemon. The crust of this dish will be ruddy and crispy, and the meat is soft and soft.


   Chicken can be pickled in kefir. Do not forget about seasonings, they can give an unforgettable flavor tasty meat. Exotic lovers will love the marinade recipe with orange juice, pineapple or kiwi slices. These fruits have sufficient acidity to soften the meat and quite bright taste and aroma, which will make the finished dish unusual and juicy. Soy sauce, pepper and spices should be added to the juice.

Acid marinas soften meat tissue, and it becomes softer, it acquires an additional, interesting taste and smell. The problem with hard meat will disappear if you remove it, one hour before cooking. When finished baking, remove the banana benches with special properties that soften the meat and enjoy a chewy, juicy meat dish. Put the meat on them and often cook it with the juice of the same meat. If the meat you bought is too hard for you, wipe it a few hours before cooking, powdered mustard and rinse it cold water  before cooking. You will see that the meat is instantly tender.

  • Pork will be very soft if you pickled it with kefir.
  • Do you dream of soft and juicy beef, sheep meat?
  • Grill the meat in front of the grill, cover the peppers, garlic and turn the banana bark.
  • To avoid falling, wrap them with thread.
  • The enemy of hard meat is bacon and onion slices.
Beef is not only one of the most expensive, but also the hardest.

   Some chefs advise marinating chicken fillet  in the egg. You should beat a couple of eggs, add salt and pepper to them to taste and coat the chicken with this mixture. After waiting for 2-3 hours, roll the pieces in breadcrumbs and send to the pan or grill. The result is a very delicious tender meat in crispy batter.


   For an unusual and even unexpected marinades for poultry can be attributed mixture coconut milk, curry and chili sauce. If coconut milk could not be found, the usual medium-fat cream will do. A few minutes before being ready, sprinkle the meat with sesame - this will give a special piquancy and beauty.


   Alcoholic beverages can serve not only as an aperitif or as an accompaniment to a ready dish. Pleasant taste and aroma gets chicken meat soaked in beer or dry wine. Wine can be taken both white and red, and beer is more suitable light varieties.


   Chicken is a very versatile meat. It can be cooked in the oven, in the sleeve, on the grill, on the fire. It is worth noting that chicken shashlik is not loved by everyone, considering it dry. But this only means that they do not know how to marinate him properly. For the oven, chicken carcass can not be butchered, but pickled the bird as a whole.


The chicken does not require a long stay in the marinade, so it is enough to leave the meat for a while from 1 to 4 hours. Depending on the circumstances and the size of the pieces. Red meat - legs - is considered more juicy, but also more high-calorie. White meat - breast - diet and has a coarser texture.

Ask a professional chef how he cooks any meat. Believe me, he will definitely say that myasko should be marinated. This is necessary to get a more pronounced, bright and original taste. In addition, after marinating, the fibers become softer, the dish is softer and juicier.

There are several rules for chicken marinating in the oven. By observing them, you will always get a wonderful meal as a result.

The duration of marinating depends on the weight of the carcass.  If you are planning to bake the whole carcass, do not be too lazy to pickle it in the evening. If you have wings or breast for dinner, you can leave them in the sauce for an hour. It takes more time for thighs - from 2 to 4 hours.

Stop marinating the chicken for the oven in mayonnaise!  With this simple and so successful, at first glance, ingredient, you completely kill its individual taste, which is the same every time. Moreover, mayonnaise contains acetic acid, which, when baked, gives the fibers rigidity, and they begin to taste bitter.

  • Keep the meat in the fridge if the time of marinating is more than 2 hours.  At room temperature, the bird marinates faster, but this only applies to the breast or the wings.
  • The easiest way to pickle chicken for the oven is to mix 1 or more kinds of spices with vegetable oil, bathe the meat in this composition and leave for a couple of hours.Depending on the seasonings chosen, choose the oil. For example, olive goes well with basil and paprika, sunflower - with hot spices, and corn is universal, suitable for all types of pickling.

  • Discard the salt!  Each chicken marinade recipe in the oven suggests salt. That's just to add it right. Do not salt the meat before a long marinating, it is better to add salt for 10 minutes before you plan to send the carcass in the oven. Otherwise, the dish will be hard and dry.

Choosing spices

What spices for chicken in the oven should be used, and which will give us a wealth of tastes? Remember!

Black and chili peppers.  The first one is universal, we put it in every dish, but chilli makes the dish sharp, so it is used "metered" and often in dishes with Mexican accent.

Herbs - for chicken in the marinade oven may contain marjoram, basil, mint, thyme, rosemary, sage.  Only one can be used. bright taste, but you can their original mix. By the way, all these herbs are perfectly combined with ginger and coriander, which will also enrich the taste of your dish.

  • Curry - the perfect solution for pickled chicken in the oven, especially if you plan to bake it on the grill.  Curry is not a simple herb, but a rich combination of spices: cumin, nutmeg, mustard, hot pepper, coriander.
  • Nutmeg - stop your choice on it if you plan to cook chicken with cheese and mushrooms.  This spice brightly saturates the taste of dishes with dairy ingredients, without it not a single gourmet dish can do if it contains cream and potatoes.
  • Turmeric - this spice has a special taste that is highly valued in India.  For us, it is more than unusual, so putting turmeric in a marinade is in a small amount. But for the chicken in the oven, it will be the perfect solution, as it will give the dish not only an interesting taste, but also a bright golden crust.

Marinade recipes for cooking chicken in the oven

The recipes that we offer are used to prepare individual pieces of chicken and are designed for 500 grams of chicken.

Soy Honey

Ingredients:

  • Two tablespoons of classic soy sauce and liquid honey;
  • Three tablespoons of refined vegetable oil;
  • One pinch of basil with coriander;
  • Slightly ground black pepper.

Mix all ingredients and marinate the chicken in the resulting sauce for 4-5 hours.

During marinating, the meat acquires a rich honey flavor and a noble brownish tint.

We take out pieces of chicken from the marinade and bake them in the oven for 30 minutes. Great meal ready!

Spicy sweet asian

Preparing a marinade for roasting chicken in the oven according to this recipe, you can appreciate the magical taste, based on the contrast of sweetness and sharpness!

Ingredients:

  • 3 tablespoons sesame oil and honey; Marinade with sesame, soy sauce and garlic
  • Five spoons of classic soy sauce;
  • A few cloves of garlic, crushed through a press;
  • Salt with black pepper to taste.
  • To the resulting mixture is added a root of ginger about 4 cm long, grated on a fine grater.

That ginger will give the finished dish a unique Asian flavor.

The prepared marinade is coated with prepared pieces of chicken and left for about one and a half to two hours, and then sent to bake in the oven. Thirty minutes later the dish is ready.

Universal (fast)

A great way for those who do not want to spend a lot of time cooking. With this recipe you will cook delicious chicken  very quickly, marinating it at room temperature for 15-20 minutes.

The composition of the quick marinade for chicken in the oven:

  • Three tablespoons of lemon juice;
  • 40 g non-acute mustard;
  • Four tablespoons olive oil;
  • Pinch of Provencal herbs of your choice;
  • Ground black pepper on the tip of a knife.

Slices of chicken should be mixed with the sauce in a plastic bag and leave to marinate.

After that, you will need another 15 to 20 minutes to bake the marinated pieces on the grill or in the oven.

Kefir

Dishes from chicken in kefir marinade in the oven are deliciously juicy. You will certainly appreciate how the notes of basil will sound in a new way against the background of delicate kefir!

Ingredients:

  • Half a liter of 1% kefir
  • 2 tablespoons of unsharp mustard;
  • 4 tablespoons of any refined oil;
  • 3-4 garlic cloves;
  • A pinch of basil and a little black pepper.

Mix all these ingredients, pour the marinade on the pieces of poultry and send them in the refrigerator for about 8-10 hours.

Time for baking will be about 30-40 minutes, while you need to ensure that the marinade completely covered the pieces of meat.

With honey and mustard

Ingredients:

  • 1 tbsp. a spoon of unsharp mustard;
  • 5 tbsp. spoons of honey, melted in a bath;
  • Two cloves of minced garlic;
  • Juice squeezed from half a lemon;
  • A little salt with black pepper to your taste.

The mixture should be coated with portions of the bird and marinated for about 2 hours at room temperature.

After that, the chicken is baked in the oven for about 30 minutes.

Put all the ingredients in a bowl and mix well. Wash the chicken thoroughly, dry it with a paper towel, and heartily massage the marinade from the inside and outside.

Interesting, but for the first time the marinade was used by the ancient Romans. Like today, the marinade allowed to soften the meat and give it a more subtle taste. In ancient times, ordinary sea water was used as a marinade. It marinated meat for several hours. Apparently, the effect justified itself, since meat dishes  those times are still described in cook books.

Today, in an arrangement of lovers of tasty and juicy meat more extensive list of ingredients, and the recipes for the preparation of marinade are much more. This allows you to cook the marinade based on the characteristics of the meat. For example, for hard meat you need to use ingredients that can soften its structure a little. Perfect mustard, which penetrates deep into the fiber, improves the absorption of herbs and spices that make up the marinade.

For chicken meatwhich is a priori tender, it is not worthwhile to include such heavy “softening” artillery as mustard in the marinade. Stronger ingredients can have a negative effect, the meat will become too tough.

Many believe that only meat from which it is planned to cook shish kebab needs is in marinade. However, it is possible to enrich the taste of meat not only in cases of a hike in nature, but also on everyday days, when you also want to enjoy fragrant and rich in taste meat. An important fact is that it takes much less time to prepare the marinated meat. The combination of spices and herbs allows each time to give the meat a unique and unique taste.

Product Preparation

As mentioned above, not every ingredient that is customarily used for marinating meat is suitable in the case of preparing marinade for tender chicken. Too hard components can "kill" the natural taste of the bird. Perfect action is tomato juice, adjika. The components can be ginger, soy sauce, lemon juice, and even exotic fruits - kiwi, orange.

Chicken Marinade Recipes:

Recipe 1. Marinade for grilled chicken

Many may wonder why it is necessary to marinate a grilled chicken. It is enough to rub it with garlic, salt, black pepper and send it in the oven until a golden crust is formed. The result will shake, however, if you do not overdo the chicken on the fire, that will dry out the meat. However, this opinion is wrong. Why to enjoy one taste every time, if you have the opportunity to experiment and each time prepare a new grill chicken with an unsurpassed taste?

Ingredients Required:

Fresh ginger - 4 cm;

Apple cider vinegar - 2 tbsp.

Honey - 3 tbsp .;

Sesame oil - 1 tbsp. L .;

Lemon juice - st. L .;

Garlic - 4 tooth .;

Sesame seeds - 1 tbsp.

Cooking method:

Cooking marinade is not difficult. It is enough to mix all the ingredients in the jar.

Garlic pushes garlic. Peeled ginger rubbed on a fine grater. On the water bath, heat the honey, add all the ingredients here. Often, when marinade meat used special packages with a lock that allows you to thoroughly mix the components of the marinade with meat. We use such a package in this case. Marinade put in the package, here we put the chicken for the grill. Carefully we coat the chicken, leaving it in the package, send it in the fridge for about 2 hours. Before you put the meat in the oven, you need to salt it, and in the end sprinkle with sesame seeds.

Recipe 2. Marinade on grape juice for chicken in the oven

Enough interesting recipe  cooking marinade, giving the meat an unimaginable flavor.

Ingredients Required:

Water - 2 cups;

Citric acid ½ tsp;

Carnation - 4 pcs .;

Grape juice - 2 glasses;

Pepper peas - 5 pcs .;

Sugar - 1 tbsp. L .;

Salt.

Cooking method:

The advantage of this marinade - cooking speed. In a deep vessel, mix all the ingredients and immerse the chicken here, you can kiss it, or you can cut it. Keep the meat in the marinade is better for several hours. The more, the richer the flavor and the softer the meat. If it takes 1.5 - 2 hours to cook an ordinary chicken in the oven, then a pickled chicken in the oven will need a maximum of 1 - 1.5 hours.

Recipe 3. Lemon marinade for chicken

Sour cream and mayonnaise are also widely used in the preparation of chicken marinade.

Ingredients Required:

Sour cream - 3 tbsp. L .;

Garlic - 5 tooth .;

Vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. L .;

Lemon juice - 4 tbsp. L .;

Turmeric - ½ tsp;

Nutmeg - ½ tsp;

Paprika - ½ tsp;

Salt.

Cooking method:

We put garlic through a press, mix the spices in the listed dosages. All components are added to the sour cream, mix. The resulting sauce is processed every piece of meat. Close the vessel tightly cling film  and put in the fridge for the night.

Recipe 4. Cheese marinade for chicken

The combination of mayonnaise and processed cheese in this recipe gives the meat a rather interesting taste. The recipe does not include any exotic seasonings, all ingredients are available.

Ingredients Required:

Mayonnaise - 2 tbsp.

Garlic - 4 tooth .;

Cream Cheese  - 150 g;

Honey - 1 tsp;

Soy sauce - 2 tbsp. L .;

Nutmeg ½ tsp

Cooking method:

It is necessary to melt the processed cheese. It is possible in a water bath, but it is better to put it in a microwave for a couple of minutes. In the cheese, melted to a thick consistency, add honey and chopped garlic. Stir, honey should also melt a little. Next, add mayonnaise, seasonings and soy sauce to the same vessel. Marinated meat for 2 hours. By the way, in such a marinade wings get especially good taste.

Recipe 5. Pineapple Pickle for Chicken

Prepare such a marinade can be for meat intended for holiday table. The intoxicating scent will exactly correspond to the solemn event.

Ingredients:

Chopped pineapple - 100 g;

Ground ginger ½ tsp;

Apple cider vinegar - 3 tbsp.

Honey-3 tbsp .;

Soy sauce - 3 tbsp. L .;

Garlic - 2 tooth.

Cooking:

Like many other marinades, this recipe is characterized by ease of preparation. In a vessel where you plan to marinate the meat, mix all the ingredients and put in the fridge for 5 hours. Pineapple gives the meat an exotic flavor. Believe me, this food certainly will not remain on the table!

The use of greens in chicken marinade can significantly enrich the taste of meat. However, do not chop the greens, while cooking it is quite difficult to clean the meat from small sticky leaves. And when cooking fresh greens turn black and spoil the look of the dish.

  1. Soy-honey.
  2. Mix a spoonful of soy sauce with two spoons of melted honey and three spoons of vegetable oil. Add to the marinade half a teaspoon of coriander and basil, a little black pepper, mix. Marinate in the meat, and if you bake it in the form and with potatoes, fill it with it before sending it to the oven. Thanks to honey, the chicken will acquire a golden color and a sweetish aftertaste.
  3. Asian spicy.
  4. Mix a spoonful of olive oil and salt, add 2 tablespoons of sugar and the juice of half a lemon. Pass through the press 5 cloves of garlic, add to marinade. Peel the ginger root 4 cm long, cut and send into the sauce. Pour in 2 spoons of soy sauce and lime juice, add half a spoonful of black pepper. The dish will turn out elegantly spicy!
  5. Wine mustard.
  6. Mix by spoon apple cider vinegar  and mustard, dilute with a glass of dry white wine. Add a spoonful of salt, a spoonful of olive oil, half a spoonful of black pepper. Wine and vinegar will make the meat incredibly tender and soft, and mustard will give the original taste.
  7. Lemon spicy.
  8. For this simple marinade use the juice of one lemon and a tablespoon of olive oil. Then add to it half a spoonful of ground pepper and dried rosemary, a pinch of salt. Lemon and rosemary will create a stunning aroma of the finished dish.
  9. Original kefir.
  10. Use 2 glasses of kefir of minimum fat content, 4 cloves of garlic, juice of half a lemon. Add spoon hot sauce  Tabasco, half a spoonful of thyme and black pepper, chop up half the onion. Put 2 tablespoons of salt in the end.
  11. Marinade "Tasty"
    • Ginger root - 1 tablespoon already in a grated form
    • Garlic - 4-5 teeth
    • Curry - 1 teaspoon
    • Turmeric - 0.5 tsp
    • Nutmeg - 0.5 tsp
    • Ground white pepper - 0.5 tsp
    • Salt - 1 tsp
    • Vegetable oil - 5 tablespoons
    • Sour cream - a quarter glass
    • Juice of half lemon (small)