How to marinate a chicken for an oven or pork for a grill.

I am a mistress with experience, and I cooked meat more than once. However, progress does not stand still, and creative chefs are constantly inventing something new. Perhaps, there are still people who remember that earlier the question of how to marinate a chicken for an oven or pork for a shish kebab was not standing. Vinegar served as a marinade, as the product is the most affordable and inexpensive. Today, on culinary sites, you can find a lot of tips for preparing a marinade, the components of which are the most unexpected ingredients. I must say that the options are very, very interesting. It was them that I selected for my small article about how to marinate the chicken for the oven. But first I want to bring a few professional cooking tips.

Any meat will become juicy and soft, if before pickling place it for 5 to 6 hours in mineral water or kefir and then marinate.
The longest in the marinade is pork neck. The process can take from two to four hours.

Beef brisket marinated for about two hours. It will be enough for an fillet for one hour. Lamb ribs are ready for frying in half an hour. Turkey, duck and chicken legs are marinated for a long time - about two hours. But for chicken wings and breasts twenty minutes are enough.

For each meat choose your kind of marinade, which does not spoil the taste of the product, but on the contrary, it will successfully complement it. If you are interested in the question of how to marinate pork for frying, pay attention to the original recipe marinade with Coca-Cola. Beef or wine marinade is more suitable for beef. The juicy and fragrant bird will make mustard or tomato marinade.

Meat plus marinade. The perfect combination. Beer marinade is best suited to beef. It will take 250 ml. Beer, 2 tbsp. L. Oil, cinnamon (ground), cloves (several heads), bay leaf and onion.

Gentle and fragrant it turns out and beef in wine marinade. It will take a red onion, fresh crushed garlic, bell pepper, carrots, chopped in slices, 250 ml. Wine red dry, 2 tbsp. L oil.

The original marinade with lemonade is perfect for pork. It will require coca-cola (300 ml.), Olive oil (mustard, corn) - 2 tbsp. L., Soy sauce (2 tbsp.), Orange, cut into half rings with zest, leaves of fresh mint and a few asterisks.

For those who are fond of ostrenkogo, you can recommend another recipe for marinade for pork. To make it, you will need ready marinated ginger (50 g.), White wine (300 ml.), Butter (2 tbsp.), A stalk of leek (2 pcs.), A few peas of black pepper.

And now a little about how to marinate a chicken for grilling.
The original marinade for poultry meat can be prepared from 125 ml. Balsamic vinegar, apple, thyme and basil. Do not forget to add a couple of spoons of sunflower oil and a spoonful of "Tabasco" sauce for an acute taste.

You can try and this recipe. Sharp ketchup mixed with vegetable oil, chopped onions, crushed garlic and olives (suitable as capers). For this recipe you can use tomato paste, but do not forget to lightly salt and add pepper for a more acute taste.

And this universal marinade is suitable for any kind of meat or poultry. For him you need white wine dry (250 ml.) And olive oil (125 ml.), Lime and lemon, onion white and red, pepper in grains. Oil, wine and juice of one lemon are mixed, add citrus slices, pepper and onion rings.

Tip how to marinate a chicken for an oven, it will be useful to any mistress. In the cookbook this dish is called "Italian Chicken". I will say right away that this is one of my favorite recipes. The hen turns out so tasty, that to me not laziness preliminary to go for a walk on shops to find all necessary components.

For cooking, you need a chicken. Chicken thighs or wings are best suited. Breast can also be marinated in this way. But the meat is somewhat dry. A small bulb is required for 4 pieces of chicken legs, any vegetable oil (3 tablespoons), orange and lemon for 1 piece, tomato juice 0.5 cups, honey 2 tbsp. L., Ground pepper, salt, Tabasco sauce.

First, prepare the marinade. Chopped onion lightly fry in oil, add lemon and orange juice, honey, tomato juice and cook on low heat for 7-8 minutes, so that the taste of marinade becomes more saturated. Season with sauce, pepper and salt. Make small incisions on the sticks and fill them with marinade. Leave for a couple of hours, then bake in the oven.

I must say that all the tips, like marinating a chicken for an oven or grilling meat, are also great for a shish kebab.

If you cook meat for a country picnic, but you do not have a special refrigerator for its transportation, it's best to postpone culinary experiments for later. The best kind of marinade for this case will be vinegar, as in any other environment harmful bacteria in the heat will multiply with increased speed.