It would seem, why make a marinade for chicken, if you just grate it with spices and send it to the oven?
It turns out that marinade is an important process of harvesting meat.
Marinate meat not only to give special taste, but also to reduce cooking time: acid destroys coarse fibers and makes meat more pliable and tender.
Once you try the chicken in a marinade with soy sauce, you will cook it the only way, trying all the new recipes.
The right combination of herbs and spices gives the meat an incredibly juicy, aromatic and rich taste.
Marinade - fertile ground for any experiment! To prepare the marinade, various components are used: 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 a dark color with a specific smell and pleasant taste. By its chemical composition, it contains vitamins, amino acids, and minerals. Its benefits are the fight against harmful infections, slowing the development of heart disease and strengthening blood vessels.
According to the recipes below, marinades take as their basis just soy sauce, which is suitable for both fish and meat dishes. Soy dressing will serve as a great addition to vegetable salads.
General principles for the preparation of chicken marinade with soy sauce
• As a rule, marinade is prepared on the basis of soy sauce with the addition of any spices. Dairy products will not be superfluous: kefir, sour cream, yogurt or whey.
• You can marinate any part of the chicken. Be it wings, hips or breast. It is better to cut the whole chicken into portion pieces for their better impregnation. In addition, the time for pickling small pieces of meat is much less.
• We prepare marinade in any deep dish where liquid ingredients can be easily mixed. A glass or plastic bowl is best.
• The time for pickling depends on the size of the pickled meat. The minimum time is 15 minutes. It’s best to leave the chicken in the marinade overnight. If the marinade will be infused for a long time, be sure to store it in the refrigerator or in a dark, cold room.
• Add sugar? This component misleads many housewives. But, oddly enough, it is sugar that enhances the taste of other products.
Crispy Wings Marinade 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 the chicken wings and make two cuts. Remember that the skin does not miss spices due to its density, so it must be opened.
2. Fill the wings with soy sauce. We clean the ginger root and rub it on a fine grater with the movements “down the grater” and “up the air”. Ginger contains fibers that can not be rubbed, so do not rush to throw away the leftovers, but squeeze the juice into a glass bowl.
3. Rub the garlic using the same technology. Add a little sesame oil.
4. In the resulting marinade with your fingers, mix the wings. We leave the pickled wings for the night in the refrigerator under the cling film so that the product does not dry.
Chicken marinade 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. To obtain the marinade we combine the following components: soy sauce, honey, ketchup, mustard and squeezed garlic. Stir until a liquid mass of uniform color. We divide the marinade into two parts: one part will be used for preparing meat before frying, and the second for stewing it.
2. Pour the chicken with the first part of the marinade and send it to the refrigerator for an hour. The second part of the marinade do not forget to also put it in the refrigerator for storage.
3. After a while, we spread the chicken thighs in a frying pan and pour the remaining marinade. For this recipe, it is advisable to have a non-stick pan so that the dish does not burn in such a sauce.
4. Leave to simmer for 25-30 minutes on moderate heat. Serve with rice, buckwheat porridge or baked potatoes.
Spicy chicken kebab marinade with soy sauce
Ingredients:
• soy sauce - 50 ml;
• half a glass of liquid yogurt;
• Red pepper;
• paprika;
• black pepper;
• dry garlic;
• curry powder;
• a quarter teaspoon of salt.
Cooking method:
1. Pour the yogurt into a bowl. Using a teaspoon, adjust the proportions of spices and seasonings according to your preferences. For moderate severity, 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 chicken pieces in a bowl, pour the marinade so that not a single piece is left without attention. Cover with a plastic bag and wait 3-4 hours.
Chicken marinade with kefir 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 the juice in which we will pickle the chicken. Add onion to the wings. Pour kefir and soy sauce, sprinkle with 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 a plastic wrap.
Chicken marinade 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 saturated with marinade.
2. Grate the garlic, add dry ginger, a little honey and soy sauce. Squeeze the juice of lemon. Mix all the ingredients into a common mass.
3. Pieces of chicken dip in the marinade and leave for several hours in the refrigerator.
Chicken marinade in soy sauce in a jar
Ingredients:
• soy sauce - 60 ml;
• lemon juice - 15 ml;
• olive oil - 45 ml;
• honey;
• cilantro.
Cooking method:
1. Finely chop the cilantro or any other fresh herbs that you like.
2. This marinade recipe is interesting in that for its preparation one glass jar with a lid is enough. Prescription ingredients (soy sauce, lemon juice, olive oil and optionally honey) are poured into a jar, add cilantro, close the lid and shake vigorously as if we were making a cocktail.
3. Dip the chicken in the marinade and store in a cold place for several hours. It is possible at room temperature, but better in the refrigerator.
Chicken marinade 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. In a deep non-metallic bowl, combine soy sauce, dry white wine and balsamic vinegar. Add a teaspoon of powdered sugar. We send the marinade to the pan on a moderate fire. We heat until the powder is completely dissolved.
2. Chicken fillet cut 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. In the marinade, add another spoonful of icing sugar and heat again over low heat until the marinade thickens.
5. Coat the fillet pieces with marinade. To decorate them, you can sprinkle with sesame seeds.
Australian Chicken Marinade with Soy Sauce
Ingredients:
• soy sauce - 50 ml;
• A glass of tomato juice;
• vinegar (3%);
• garlic - 3 cloves;
• a spoon of honey;
• red hot pepper (to taste).
Cooking method:
1. All products from the recipe (soy sauce, tomato juice, vinegar, a spoon of honey, squeezed garlic, spices) are combined in a saucepan. The peculiarity of this marinade is that it must first be cooked on low heat for 10 minutes.
2. To use the marinade as a sauce, let it brew in the refrigerator.
Chicken marinade in soy sauce with tomatoes
Ingredients:
• tomatoes 6-7 pieces;
• a spoon of wine vinegar;
• onion - 2 pieces;
• bell pepper;
• soy sauce;
• honey - 1 tbsp. spoon.
Cooking method:
1. Peel the onion from the husk and finely chop.
2. We release the bell pepper from the seeds and cut into thin slices.
3. Tomatoes, pre-flooded 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 marinate for several hours.
Chicken marinade with mayonnaise and soy sauce
Ingredients:
• soy sauce - 30 ml;
• mayonnaise - 220 g;
• garlic - 1 clove;
• paprika - 1 teaspoon;
• black pepper.
Cooking method:
1. Pour mayonnaise into a deep bowl, intended for further marinating meat.
2. Combine it with soy sauce, add black pepper and paprika.
3. Grease the chicken meat with the prepared marinade and leave it to languish in it for several hours.
Chicken Marinade with Soy Sauce - Tips and Tricks
• Never marinate meat in aluminum dishes, as it is oxidized by salt.
• For a pungent spicy taste, use ginger. He also has an interesting ability to arouse appetite.
• Do not rush to add salt. Spices, spices, garlic will take on this mission.
• Coriander in combination with other spices favorably emphasizes the exquisite taste of the dish.
• If one of the components of your marinade is mustard, remember that it is not advisable to keep such a 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 sending the meat to marinate, close the bowl in which the chicken is located with a plate. Press lightly to form more juice.
• Marinade can also be a sauce! After frying the fillet 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. You can add a little dry red wine or just water to the marinade. So the liquid evaporates even faster.
The pleasure of cooked chicken is doubled if the accompanying cooking was marinating. Thanks to the marinade, the meat becomes incredibly tender, juicy and aromatic, acquiring the smell of spices. Fried or baked chicken is considered a traditional dish with a neutral taste, so the addition of marinade will make it unusual and bright!
Enjoy your meal! Cook with pleasure!
