Regardless of how you decided to cook chicken, it is preliminarily desirable to marinate meat. Thanks to the marinade, the tender chicken drumsticks, thighs, wings or fillets will become even more tender, and will also be soaked with the flavors of those additives that you decide to use as a base mixture. In the recipes below we will figure out how to marinate the chicken specifically for baking in the oven, but that does not mean that you can not use these marinades to cook the chicken on charcoal or frying pan.
How to pickle the chicken for the oven?
The first marinade from this material can not be standardized: mustard, honey, fragrant herbs - a win-win combination that will suit both meat fillets, and for pulp thighs and shins.
Ingredients:
- butter - 45 g;
- Dijon mustard - 10 g;
- honey - 25 ml;
- Worcestershire sauce - 15 ml;
- dried herbs, olive - 1 teaspoon.
Preparation
After melting butter, combine it with mustard and honey until the latter dissolves. Add a bit of Worcestershire sauce and dried herb olive for flavor. Check the pickle for salt and sprinkle it if necessary. Leave the bird in such marinade for a couple of hours.
Chicken marinated in soy sauce in the oven
Eastern sour-acute-salt combinations have become favorites of many since the beginning of the popularization of Asian cuisine. Now it is hard for anyone to resist the chicken in sticky glaze, and what is the need to do it, because you can cook a bird in this way with your own hands.
Ingredients:
- honey - 35 ml;
- soy sauce - 35 ml;
- tomato puree - 15 g;
- grain mustard - 15 g;
- vinegar - 15 ml;
- ground chili - to taste.
Preparation
Before you properly pickle the chicken for the oven, it must be prepared. This is done simply simple: the wings, thighs or shins of the birds are rinsed and thoroughly dried. Then combine honey with soy sauce, tomato puree and other ingredients from the list of ingredients, and carefully distribute the marinade in chicken pieces. You can start baking right away.
The recipe for pickled chicken in the oven
This recipe is suitable for fans of piquant Indian cuisine. The abundance of spices softens the taste of Greek yogurt, which is able not only to smooth out intense tastes, but also to soften the meat itself.
Ingredients:
- sweet onion - 45 g;
- 1/2 lemon juice;
- garlic - 2-3 teeth;
- olive oil - 35 ml;
- paprika - 1 1/2 tsp.
- turmeric - 1 teaspoon;
- garam masala - 1 teaspoon;
- by a pinch of ground coriander, cayenne pepper;
- yogurt - 115 ml.
Preparation
Using a blender, whisk together all the ingredients from the ingredients list. Mix chicken with a homogeneous sauce and leave for half an hour. The recipe is designed for 1 kilogram of poultry.
Chicken marinated in mayonnaise in the oven
The Internet has long been popularized by the myth that with the help of mayonnaise you can make chicken juicier and fatter. We do not undertake to confirm or deny this myth, but we will still share the recipe. Such a marinated chicken can be baked in the oven with potatoes and root vegetables.
Ingredients:
- mayonnaise - 65 ml;
- garlic - 3 teeth;
- sprigs of rosemary and thyme - 2 pcs .;
- juice of 1 lemon.
Preparation
Purish garlic teeth together with a pinch of salt. Add the herbs to the garlic paste and lightly beat them with a pestle to release the fragrance. Combine the fragrant mixture with lemon juice and mayonnaise, and then apply everything to the chicken and leave the bird for a period of up to 8 hours. The resulting volume of marinade is enough for the preparation of a kilogram of chicken.