Chicken Marinade

JasonX said:

Hi,

Does anyone have a simple but nice chicken breast marinade recipe that a
student could whack together easily? Im not to keen on using oil in the
marinade due to calorie watching, maybe wine would be nice?

The chicken will be grilled.

What's wrong with oil? It is an essential part of our nutritional
requirements. If you are concerned about weight, get out and get some
exercise.

Use olive oil. My basic marinade is oe part lemon juice to 2 parts olive
oil with some salt, pepper, finely chopped garlic and a herb or three,
usually oregano, or tarragon and hot sauce.

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Quoted message said:

Hi,

Does anyone have a simple but nice chicken breast marinade recipe that a
student could whack together easily? Im not to keen on using oil in the
marinade due to calorie watching, maybe wine would be nice?

The chicken will be grilled.

Thanks for any tips,

Jason

Here you go Jason...... knock yourself out :-)

http://www.cooks.com/rec/search/0,1-0,chicken_breast_marinade,FF.html

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Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia

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the night to do violence to those who would do them harm"
-- George Orwell

JasonX said:

Hi,

Does anyone have a simple but nice chicken breast marinade recipe that a
student could whack together easily? Im not to keen on using oil in the
marinade due to calorie watching, maybe wine would be nice?

The chicken will be grilled.

Thanks for any tips,

Jason

I prefer to cook the chicken, either poach or bake and then slice into
bite size pieces and marinate for 1/2 hour in an Italian vinaigrette.

Be careful of using too much wine or vinegar or for too long as it can
turn the meat to mush, same with lemon juice which makes a nice marinade
with some chopped garlic and green onion.

I use canola oil but a dark sesame oil is nice with ginger, garlic,
green onion, red pepper flakes, and a bit of sake & soy sauce, marinate
and then grill (watch out for the salt content in the soy sauce - a
little goes a long way).
--
JL

JasonX said:

Hi,

Does anyone have a simple but nice chicken breast marinade recipe >that a student could whack together easily? Im not to keen on using oil >in the marinade due to calorie watching, maybe wine would be nice?

The chicken will be grilled.

Thanks for any tips,

Jason

Jason,

I'm going to focus on the "college student" and "whack together". I
use to make a quick marinade using pineapple juice as the base.
Pineapple juice, some soy sauce, some wine or sherry, garlic, ginger,
pepper, and I think that was about it. (The soy sauce has salt, so
don't over-salt it.) It's been a while since I threw it together, and
I'm probably forgetting something until I do it again, but it was
simple. You can use it for chicken or pork. The acid in the
pineapple juice will break down things to tenderize cheap pork.
There's that student thing again.

You could do basically the same thing by starting with beer, and just
add stuff that will work. I'd use onion and garlic for some basic
herbs/spices, throw in some vinegar if you like, tomato sauce or
paste, etc. If you want to use the "Italian spices", that would work
too. (Please remember, you'll never get good marinade by using that
watered-down, light beer stuff. It's the Cheeze Whiz (sp?) of beer.)

If you don't know too much about cooking, I'd go to the web and look
up some recipes, then mix and match to what you have in the pantry.
Most marinades aren't very delicate, you can't break them. And I'd
write down what you did so you can repeat it if you like it.

If you didn't notice, I often don't measure things. It's kind of the
way people use to cook. Usually things are good, and every once in a
long while, they're not so good. But that comes with the territory.

HTH,

Ken

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Quoted message said:

Hi,

Does anyone have a simple but nice chicken breast marinade recipe that a
student could whack together easily? Im not to keen on using oil in the
marinade due to calorie watching, maybe wine would be nice?

The chicken will be grilled.

Thanks for any tips,

My wife often uses just Kraft House Italian dressing.
Makes them very taasty, leaves them in overnight andthem
I grill them.