It would seem, why make a marinade for a chicken, if you just grate it with spices and send it to the oven?
It turns out that marinade is an important process of preparing meat.
Marinating meat is not only to give a special taste, but also to shorten the cooking time: acid destroys coarse fibers and makes the meat more supple and tender.
Once you have tasted a chicken in a marinade with soy sauce, you will be cooking it just this way, trying out all the new recipes.
The right combination of greens and spices gives the meat an incredibly juicy, fragrant and rich taste.
Marinade is fertile ground for any experiments! To prepare the marinade use different components: mustard, ginger, lemon juice, soy sauce, kiwi and even honey. Do not be afraid to combine the most, at first glance, not harmonious ingredients.
Soy sauce, being an integral part of Asian cuisine, is a thick liquid of dark color with a specific smell and pleasant taste. By chemical composition, it contains vitamins, amino acids, and minerals. Its benefits are to combat harmful infections, slow the development of heart disease and strengthen blood vessels.
Marinades according to the recipes given below take just soy sauce, which is suitable for both fish and meat dishes. Soy dressing will be a great addition to vegetable salads.
General principles of cooking marinade for chicken with soy sauce
• As a rule, the marinade is prepared on the basis of soy sauce with the addition of any spices and spices. Not too much will be dairy products: kefir, sour cream, yogurt or whey.
• Marinate any part of the chicken. Be it wings, thighs or breasts. The whole chicken is better to cut into portioned pieces for better impregnation. Besides, the time for marinating small pieces of meat is much less. • Cooking the marinade in any deep dish, where liquid ingredients can be easily mixed. A glass or plastic bowl is best.
• Time for marinating depends on the size of the marinated meat. The minimum time is 15 minutes. Best to leave the chicken in the marinade overnight. If the marinade will infuse for a long time, be sure to store it in the refrigerator or in a dark cold room.
• Do I add sugar? This component misleads many housewives. But, oddly enough, it is sugar that enhances the taste of other products.
Marinade for crispy wings with soy sauce
Ingredients:
• soy sauce;
• three centimeters of ginger;
• two cloves of garlic;
• sugar;
• Red pepper;
• Sesame oil.
Cooking Method:
1. Open the skin of chicken wings and make two cuts. Remember that the skin does not skip spices because of its density, so it must be opened.
2. Fill the wings with soy sauce. Clean the ginger root and rub it on a fine grater with “down the grater” and “upward in the air” movements. Ginger contains fibers that can not be rubbed, so do not rush to throw away the remnants, and squeeze the juice into a glass bowl.
3. Rub garlic using the same technology. Add a little sesame oil.
4. In the resulting marinade fingers mix the wings. We leave the marinated wings overnight in the refrigerator under the cling film so that the product does not dry out.
Marinade for chicken with soy sauce and honey
Ingredients:
• soy sauce - 105 ml;
• honey - 30 ml;
• tomato ketchup - 3 tbsp. spoons;
• mustard - 2 tsp;
• three cloves of garlic;
• a pinch of salt.
Cooking Method:
1. For the marinade, we combine the following components: soy sauce, honey, ketchup, mustard and squeezed garlic. Stir to obtain a liquid mass of uniform color. We divide the marinade into two parts: one part will go to preparing the meat before frying, and the second to quench it. 2. Fill the chicken with the first part of the marinade and send it in the fridge for an hour. The second part of the marinade also remember to put in the refrigerator for storage.
3. After a while, we lay the chicken thighs on the pan and pour the remaining marinade. For this recipe, it is desirable to have a pan with a non-stick coating so that the dish does not burn in this sauce.
4. Leave to stew for 25-30 minutes over moderate heat. Served with rice, buckwheat porridge or baked potatoes.
Spicy marinade for chicken kebab with soy sauce
Ingredients:
• soy sauce - 50 ml;
• half a cup of liquid yogurt;
• Red pepper;
• paprika;
• black pepper;
• dry garlic;
• curry powder;
• a quarter of a teaspoon of salt.
Cooking Method:
1. Pour the yogurt into the bowl. Using a teaspoon, the proportions of spices and seasonings are adjusted to suit your preferences. For moderate sharpness, add no more than half a teaspoon of each of the spices. Mix yogurt, soy sauce and spices with a spoon until the additives are completely dissolved.
2. Put the pieces of chicken in a bowl, pour the marinade so that not a single piece is left unattended. Cover with plastic bag and wait for 3-4 hours.
Marinade for chicken with kefir-based soy sauce
Ingredients:
• kefir 220 ml;
• four onions;
• 100 ml of soy sauce;
• ketchup;
• salt - half a teaspoon;
• pepper;
• spices and spices (any).
Cooking Method:
1. Cut the onion as small as possible so that it gives juice in which we will marinate the chicken. Onions add to the wings. Fill with kefir and soy sauce, pour in spices and spices. Actively mix the wings with your hands to evenly distribute the marinade.
2. Leave the meat in the marinade for 2-3 hours under the cling film.
Marinade for chicken with soy sauce and ground ginger
Ingredients:
• ground ginger;
• honey - 25 ml;
• soy sauce - 35 ml;
• garlic; • salt pepper;
• lemon.
Cooking Method:
1. To make the fillet juicy, be sure to make cuts in the form of a “lattice” on each piece. So they are better soaked in marinade.
2. Grate the garlic, add dry ginger, a little honey and soy sauce. Squeeze lemon juice. Mix all the ingredients in the total mass.
3. Pieces of chicken dipped in marinade and leave for several hours in the refrigerator.
Marinade for chicken in soy sauce in a can
Ingredients:
• soy sauce - 60 ml;
• lemon juice - 15 ml;
• olive oil - 45 ml;
• honey;
• cilantro.
Cooking Method:
1. Cut finely cilantro or any other fresh greens that you like.
2. This marinade recipe is interesting in that one glass jar with a lid is enough to make it. Prescription ingredients (soy sauce, lemon juice, olive oil and honey if desired) are poured into a jar, we add cilantro, close with a lid and actively shake as if we were preparing a cocktail.
3. Dip the chicken in the marinade and store it in a cold place for several hours. It is possible at room temperature, but better in the refrigerator.
Marinade for chicken with soy sauce and powdered sugar
Ingredients:
• soy sauce - 100 ml;
• powdered sugar - 3 teaspoons;
• dry white wine - 50 ml;
• parsley;
• garlic;
• allspice;
• Balsamic vinegar - half a teaspoon.
Cooking Method:
1. Combine soy sauce, dry white wine and balsamic vinegar in a deep non-metallic bowl. Add a teaspoon of powdered sugar. We send the marinade in a saucepan over moderate heat. We heat until the powder dissolves completely.
2. Cut the chicken fillet into pieces and pour the resulting sauce. Leave to marinate for at least an hour. The longer the better.
3. After marinating, fry the fillet on both sides until golden brown.
4. Add another spoonful of powdered sugar to the marinade and heat it over low heat until the marinade thickens. 5. We coat the fillet marinade pieces. For decoration, you can sprinkle them with sesame seeds.
Australian chicken marinade with soy sauce
Ingredients:
• soy sauce - 50 ml;
• A glass of tomato juice;
• vinegar (3%);
• garlic - 3 cloves;
• spoon of honey;
• red hot pepper (to taste).
Cooking Method:
1. All products from the recipe (soy sauce, tomato juice, vinegar, honey spoon, squeezed garlic, spices) are combined in a saucepan. The peculiarity of this marinade is that it must be pre-cooked on low heat for 10 minutes.
2. To use the marinade as a sauce, let it stand in the refrigerator.
Marinade for chicken in soy sauce with tomatoes
Ingredients:
• tomatoes 6-7 pieces;
• spoon of wine vinegar;
• onions - 2 pieces;
• Bulgarian pepper;
• soy sauce;
• honey - 1 tbsp. spoon.
Cooking Method:
1. Peel the onions from the husk and chop finely.
2. Release the Bulgarian pepper from the seeds and cut into thin slices.
3. Tomatoes, pre-filled with boiling water, peel and survive in a bowl.
4. Garlic must be crushed and added to the total mass of the marinade. For a better uniformity effect, you can mix the ingredients with a mixer.
5. Leave to pickle for a few hours.
Marinade for chicken with mayonnaise and soy sauce
Ingredients:
• soy sauce - 30 ml;
• mayonnaise - 220 g;
• garlic - 1 clove;
• paprika - 1 tsp;
• black pepper.
Cooking Method:
1. Pour the mayonnaise into a deep dish designed for further marinating the meat.
2. Combine it with soy sauce, add black pepper and paprika.
3. Lubricate the finished marinade chicken and leave it to languish in it for several hours.
Marinade for Chicken with Soy Sauce - Tricks and Tips
• Never marinate meat in an aluminum dish, as it is oxidized under the influence of salts. • To get a piquant spicy taste, use ginger. He also has an interesting property to arouse appetite.
• Do not rush to add salt. Spices, spices, garlic will take on this mission.
• Coriander in combination with other spices will emphasize the exquisite taste of the dish.
• If mustard is one of the ingredients of your marinade, remember that it is not advisable to keep such marinade for more than one hour.
• Remember that soy sauce is quite salty and, most likely, you should not add salt to the marinade separately.
• Before you send the meat to marinate, close the bowl, which contains the chicken, with a plate. Press down lightly to form more juice.
• Marinade can be a sauce! After frying the fillets on both sides, add the marinade to the pan, bring the dish to a boil and simmer for a while until the marinade juice begins to decrease. In the marinade, you can add a little dry red wine or just water. So the liquid evaporate even faster.
The pleasure of cooked chicken meat doubles if the accompanying cooking step was pickling. Thanks to the marinade, the meat becomes incredibly tender, juicy and fragrant, acquiring the smell of spices. Fried or baked chicken is considered a traditional dish with a neutral taste, so adding the marinade will make it unusual and bright!
Bon appetit! Cook with pleasure!
