Tips on how to marinate chicken for barbecue will be useful to anyone who likes to cook tender meat in the open air. Today, several successful recipes for chicken marinade are known at once, which can improve the quality and nutritional value of dishes. The best of them are collected in our selection.

Classic marinade for chicken kebab

The classic recipe includes a minimum of products. Ingredients: 2 chicken carcasses, 6-7 onions, a mixture of black and red pepper, salt to taste.

  1. Chickens are chopped in medium pieces. Each of them is smeared with salt and peppers.
  2. Onions are cut in half rings, after which they knead well with their fingers to let the juice flow.
  3. Meat is laid out on a thick pillow of vegetables. Further prepared products alternate in layers.
  4. The “tower” always ends with a bow.

Under the lid in the cold, the mass will marinate for 3-5 hours.

With vinegar

This option can be called the second classic recipe. Most often, chicken kebab is soaked with the addition of vinegar. Ingredients per 1.5 kg of poultry: 8 large tablespoons of purified water, salt, 2-3 onions, a large spoon of sugar, 4 large tablespoons of vinegar.

  1. The chicken is washed, dried and cut large.
  2. Each individual piece of meat is salted and laid in a deep bowl.
  3. Onion rubs on a coarse grater, and then mixes with chilled water. Sugar and vinegar are added to the resulting marinade. He poured chicken.

It is advisable that the bird stay in the resulting mixture all night.

With onion

Onions are used to soften chicken fibers, make the bird softer, softer, and of course saturate it with a unique aroma. You need to take a vegetable in large quantities. Ingredients per 1 kg of chicken: 600 g of white onion, special seasonings for barbecue, salt.

  1. Chicken is cut into large pieces.
  2. All onions are peeled, washed and rubbed on a coarse grater. The vegetable mass is sprinkled with seasonings and salted, after which it needs to completely cover the meat slices.
  3. It is enough that the chicken lay in the marinade for an hour.

So that the onion does not burn during the preparation of the kebab, it is brushed off the meat pieces with a brush immediately before frying.

Chicken Tomato Marinade

Such a marinade will give the dish a special oriental touch. Ingredients for 6 chicken drumsticks: a large spoonful of mustard, 130 ml of tomato juice, 2 large spoons of spicy dried herbs, salt and a mixture of peppers.

  1. The chicken folds into a wide roomy dish. From above it is sprinkled with dry herbs, salt and pepper. It should immediately grease the pieces with mustard. It also helps soften meat.
  2. It remains to fill the kebab with tomato juice and leave for at least 4 hours.

If possible, leave the chicken in the marinade for 8-9 hours.

With mayonnaise

The fatter the mayonnaise, the tastier the marinade. Ingredients for 6 chicken legs: 8 large tablespoons of soy sauce, 220 g of mayonnaise, a large spoon of apple cider vinegar, 2 small. spoons of any seasoning, salt.

  1. Hips are cut in half. The drumstick is separated from them. It is also worth removing excess skin, which can burn very much on charcoal.
  2. Prepared pieces are stacked in a pan.
  3. For marinade, vinegar, sauce, seasonings and mayonnaise are mixed. With salt you need to be careful. Soy sauce mass is very easy to salt.
  4. The resulting mixture is poured onto chicken.
  5. Ideally, you should leave the bird in it all night. The minimum period is 3 hours.

This marinade recipe can be improved by adding mashed tomatoes without skin to it.

With lemon and garlic

Piquant marinade will surely especially appeal to men. Ingredients for 700 g of chicken: 4-5 garlic cloves, 3 large tablespoons of lemon juice, red onion, salt, a pinch of sweet paprika, cinnamon and cumin.

  1. All seasonings are mixed and poured with lemon juice. Crushed garlic goes there.
  2. Chicken pieces are placed in a deep bowl and sprinkled with thin onion rings.
  3. The meat is poured with marinade and infused for a couple of hours in the cold.

Pieces of red pickled onions are deliciously fried with chicken.

Original marinade on wine

For barbecue marinades, red wine is usually taken. It is best to choose a dry drink. Ingredients for 2 kg of chicken: 350-370 ml of wine, 2 lemons, 4 onions, rosemary, salt, ground black pepper.

  1. Chicken pieces are stacked in an enamel bowl. It is better to rub them with salt and pepper.
  2. For the marinade, the onion is rubbed on a coarse grater. The juice of both lemons, wine is poured to it, chopped greens of rosemary are poured.
  3. The bird is poured with marinade and mixes well.
  4. Barbecue should be infused for at least 2-3 hours.

Instead of red, rose wine is also allowed.

Soy Sauce Recipe

Any additives in the sauce will be redundant. Therefore, it is better to use the classic version. Ingredients per 2 kg of chicken: 680 ml of water, 2 large spoons of soy sauce, 80 ml of lemon juice, 3 small. tablespoons of salt, 35 g of black ground pepper, 4-5 garlic cloves.

  1. To prepare such a marinade is very simple. To do this, simply add all of these ingredients to the water.
  2. Garlic is previously passed through a press.
  3. Barbecue will marinate for at least 3 hours.

The dish will turn out to be especially tasty if the chicken is not just poured with the mixture from above, but also a small amount is injected into each piece with a syringe.

On mineral water

Mineral is taken carbonated. A salty drink will do. Products for 2 kg of chicken: 970 ml of mineral water, 3 white onions, a large spoon of refined oil, salt, black ground pepper.

  1. Mineral is mixed with oil.
  2. Pieces of meat are poured with liquid.
  3. Salt, pepper and onion rings pour on top of the ingredients.
  4. After thorough mixing, the kebab is put under oppression in the cold.

The minimum pickling time is 3 hours.

On kefir

Fatty kefir makes chicken most tender. Products per 1.5 kg of poultry: half a liter of kefir, a pair of garlic cloves, 2-3 onions, salt, a special mixture of seasonings for barbecue.

  1. Chicken is washed, dried and divided into portions.
  2. Each slice is salted, rubbed well with seasonings and crushed garlic.
  3. Pieces of chicken are sprinkled with onions, chopped into rings.
  4. It remains to fill the components with kefir and mix. The barbecue container is covered with plastic wrap.

In kefir marinade, chicken should stand for at least 3-4 hours. Ideally, the whole night.

Quick Chicken Kebab Marinade

If you need to prepare chicken for frying very quickly, then you should use this "accelerated" recipe. Ingredients for 3 legs: 3 large onions, salt, 2 large spoons of wine vinegar.

  1. Portioned pieces of chicken are salted.
  2. Onions are cut into thin rings and spilled out to the bird.
  3. All ingredients are poured with vinegar and well mixed. By the way, instead of the wine it is allowed to use the apple component.

It is enough to pickle the mass for no more than 1.5 hours.

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For beer chicken wings

Ready kebab will be a great snack to the "foamy". Products per 1 kg of wings: 1 tbsp. high-quality light beer, a large spoon of chopped coriander, red hot pepper on the tip of a knife, a large spoon of Adyghe salt.

  1. The wings washed and dried with paper napkins are poured with cold beer.
  2. The mass is slightly salted, coriander and red pepper are added to it.
  3. After mixing, the chicken is left in the liquid for a couple of hours.

A bird according to this recipe can be cooked even in the oven, laying on an oiled baking sheet.

Mustard Lemon Marinade

Another good marinade for chicken kebab is also prepared on the basis of freshly squeezed lemon juice. Ingredients per 2 kg of chicken: a large spoonful of soy sauce, the same amount of mustard and natural bee honey (liquid), 2 garlic wedges, 2 large tablespoons of vegetable oil, universal seasoning for meat, salt.

  1. In a deep bowl, soy sauce and oil are mixed.
  2. Mustard, honey, crushed garlic, salt, seasoning are added to the future marinade.
  3. Chicken is cut into large slices, washed and dried with a paper towel.
  4. Pieces of chicken are poured with the resulting piquant mixture. Pickled bird for at least 8 hours.

 

It is tasty to cook such chicken as on skewers, so on the grill or in the oven. In any case, a very successful tender meal will turn out.

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