Yummy Grilled Chicken Marinade

Here is a quick chicken marinade that you can throw together to make your chicken taste fantastic!

What’s a marinade? A marinade is a liquid in which you soak raw meat or vegetables.  Marinades infuse food with flavor, and tenderize meat. Tough meats can be marinated for as long as a whole day and night, but usually you don’t marinate chicken for that long. A few hours will do the trick!

Salt can toughen meat, so we’ll add that after the meat is cooked instead of putting it in the marinade.

After your chicken has taken its flavor bath you can cook it any way you like. We like it grilled, but you can also saute the chicken in a pan on the stove, bake it or even broil it.

Yummy Grilled Chicken Marinade

 

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A quick and flavorful marinade for chicken.

Author: Blossoms and Posies

Serves: 4

You'll need...

• 1 tablespoon garlic
• ¼ tsp smoked paprika
• ¼ tsp black pepper
• ¼ c olive oil
• 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
• 4 uncooked chicken breasts
• ¾ tsp salt

Here's what to do...

1. Combine garlic, smoked paprika and black pepper in a small bowl.
2. Stir together oil and vinegar.
3. Add spices to liquid and whisk.
4. Pour a little marinade in the bottom of a flat baking pan, place chicken breasts in pan, then pour the rest of the marinade over the top of the meat. Use a spoon to spread the marinade around if necessary.
5. Refrigerate the chicken for 15 minutes to 2 hours.
6. Cook chicken by the method you prefer, until the center is no longer pink and the juices run clear (safe internal temperature is 165°F.)
7. Sprinkle salt over the chicken breasts before serving.

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