This is the perfect lemon rooster marinade we’ve tried. Use our simple marinade for tremendous tender, juicy, and flavorful rooster. You should utilize it on quite a lot of rooster cuts and cooking strategies, together with baking, grilling, or cooking in a skillet.
This tremendous versatile lemon garlic rooster marinade is ideal for all cuts of rooster. We’ve been utilizing this marinade for a very long time (initially impressed by these scrumptious lemon rooster thighs). Whereas it’s excellent for rooster, it’s additionally scrumptious with pork, fish, and greens.
We’ve used it in a lot of our rooster recipes, together with these lemon garlic rooster breasts, juicy grilled rooster, and garlic parmesan wings. For extra inspiration, strive our Greek rooster marinade, which provides plain Greek yogurt to make the rooster further tender and juicy.
Key Elements
- Lemon: I exploit recent lemon juice and zest. Lemon juice makes the bottom of the marinade, whereas the zest offers it an additional lemony punch. I like utilizing a vegetable peeler to make strips of the zest.
- Olive oil: I really like the flavour of olive oil on this marinade. It makes the rooster extra scrumptious. If you happen to plan to prepare dinner your rooster over excessive warmth, contemplate substituting it with avocado oil.
- Dijon mustard: Mustard and lemon work fantastically collectively, so I at all times add a bit of Dijon to this marinade.
- Garlic: Smashed complete garlic cloves add the correct amount of recent garlic taste and stability the acidity of the lemon. Preserving them complete additionally prevents any garlic from burning in a while.
- Contemporary herbs: These are optionally available, however I really like including recent herbs to this rooster marinade. I exploit recent parsley within the video, however dill, cilantro, and basil are wonderful selections.
How Lengthy to Marinate Rooster
Making your marinade is straightforward! Merely stir all of the elements in a bowl, season with salt and pepper, and use it inside 2 hours.
Since this marinade comprises lemon juice, don’t marinate your rooster for longer than 6 hours. The acidity of the lemon juice can break down the rooster’s proteins, leading to a mushy texture if left within the marinade for too lengthy. All the time marinate your rooster within the fridge and discard any leftover marinade to make sure meals security.
- Boneless rooster breasts: I normally marinate rooster breasts between half-hour and a couple of hours.
- Bone-in rooster: Rooster thighs, bone-in rooster breasts, and drumsticks can deal with a bit extra time. Marinate for as much as 6 hours.
For extra marinade recipes, see our Greek rooster marinade, simple shrimp marinade, or this unbelievable steak marinade!
Simple Lemon Rooster Marinade
We love this lemon garlic rooster marinade! This recipe makes sufficient marinade for two to three kilos of rooster. It really works nice for rooster, however you may as well use it for turkey, pork, fish, shrimp, tofu, and greens.
Be at liberty to make use of the marinade for basting whereas cooking or grilling. Simply keep in mind to put aside a portion of the marinade earlier than including your elements for those who plan to baste.
Makes 1/2 cup
Watch Us Make the Recipe
You Will Want
2 lemons
2 tablespoons (30ml) olive oil
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
1/4 teaspoon pink pepper flakes, or extra to style
1/2 teaspoon recent floor pepper
1/2 teaspoon nice sea salt
3 cloves garlic, smashed
1/4 cup chopped recent parsley, optionally available
Instructions
1Use a vegetable peeler to peel the zest of 1 lemon, then juice the lemons so you will have 1/4 cup (60ml) of juice.
2Whisk the lemon juice, olive oil, mustard, pink pepper flakes, salt, and black pepper collectively in a small bowl till the salt has dissolved.
3Stir within the garlic, lemon zest, and parsley (if utilizing).
4Place the rooster within the marinade, after which transfer it round a couple of occasions to make sure it’s effectively coated. Refrigerate for as much as 6 hours or 2 hours for boneless rooster breasts.
Adam and Joanne’s Ideas
- Contemporary herbs: I really like parsley, however dill, cilantro, and basil are additionally pretty.
- Marinating time: Because of the acidic nature of the lemon juice, we advocate marinating rooster for not than 6 hours. If you happen to’re marinating fish, half-hour or much less is satisfactory.
- To show right into a salad dressing: Improve the olive oil to 1/4 cup and whisk till blended. Refrigerate for 1 hour, then discard the garlic and lemon zest. Style for seasoning and modify with salt. Add a sprinkle of sugar or a bit of honey to stability the acidity and the mustard.
- The diet info offered beneath are estimates.
Vitamin Per Serving
Serving Dimension
1/4 cup
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Energy
138
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Protein
1 g
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Carbohydrate
4 g
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Dietary Fiber
0 g
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Complete Sugars
1 g
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Complete Fats
14 g
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Saturated Fats
2 g
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Ldl cholesterol
0 mg
