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Best Chicken Marinade

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By: Leigh Anne WilkesPosted: 1/16/18Updated: 1/25/22

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Easy Chicken Marinade

This chicken marinade makes juicy, flavorful and delicious chicken. It will become your go to marinade.

Easy CHicken Marinade

Versatile Marinade

A good chicken marinade is an essential part of any cooking repertoire. It’s a quick and easy way to pull dinner together.  This marinade can be changed up a lot of different ways. 

Easy Chicken Marinade

Marinade Ingredients

Mustard. I usually use Dijon but a stone ground mustard, spicy brown or regular yellow mustard will work too.

Vinegar. I prefer apple cider vinegar but balsamic vinegar would give it a nice flavor and sometimes I use red or white wine vinegar.

Sugar. The recipe calls for brown sugar but honey will also work.  You’ve got lots of flexibility to use what you have on hand or play around with your flavor combinations.

Easy CHicken Marinade

How Long Do I Marinate Chicken?

The ideal marinate time for chicken is 4-5 hours. Any longer and the texture of the chicken is effected and it gets mushy.

What Kind of Chicken Can I Use?

You can use chicken breasts, I prefer boneless and skinless. Chicken tenders or thighs will also work.

What To Serve Marinaded Chicken With

This chicken marinade is the perfect one to use for any dish you want to add a little more flavor to.  I often just marinade my chicken breasts, grill them or bake them and then serve them with some rice pilaf or yummy potato dish.   The chicken is flavorful enough to dice up and add into pasta, onto a taco or anyway you like to eat your chicken.

Easy CHicken Marinade

One of my favorite ways to use this chicken marinade is for chicken tostadas. Marinaded chicken is also delicious in this Spinach Apple Salad. And if you like this marinade, make sure to check out my Garlic Herb Seasoning Recipe.

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Chicken Marinade Recipe

4.88 from 8 votes
Easy CHicken Marinade

Chicken Marinade

Recipe From: Leigh Anne Wilkes
A simple and flavorful chicken marinade that will quickly become a favorite.
This chicken marinade is totally versatile and will become your go to marinade.
serves: 6 servings
Prep:10 minutes
Cook:0 minutes
Marinade at least:1 hour
Total:1 hour 10 minutes
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Ingredients

  • 6 Tbsp olive oil
  • 1/4 cup apple cider vinegar
  • juice of one lemon
  • 3 Tbsp mustard Dijon
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 3 cloves garlic minced
  • 1 1/2 tsp salt

Instructions

  • Mix together all ingredients, add in chicken and allow to marinate for at least one hour.

Tips & Notes:

This is enough marinade for up to six chicken breasts

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Nutrition Facts:

Calories: 203kcal (10%) Carbohydrates: 19g (6%) Protein: 1g (2%) Fat: 14g (22%) Saturated Fat: 2g (13%) Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g Monounsaturated Fat: 10g Trans Fat: 1g Sodium: 673mg (29%) Potassium: 48mg (1%) Fiber: 1g (4%) Sugar: 18g (20%) Vitamin A: 5IU Vitamin C: 1mg (1%) Calcium: 23mg (2%) Iron: 1mg (6%)
* Disclaimer: All nutrition information are estimates only. Read full disclosure here.
Course:Holiday Main Dish
Cuisine:American
Easy CHicken Marinade
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  1. Samantha Hutchinson says

    Posted on 2/27 at 5:38 am

    This is one of my go-to chicken marinades. I do use it to make tostadas as well as put on salads.

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  2. Lou Ann Warren says

    Posted on 1/30 at 7:44 pm

    Can I leave the salt out?? Looking for no salt, low salt recipes for heart patient. Just wondered if it would be okay???

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    • Leigh Anne says

      Posted on 2/3 at 8:32 am

      Lou Ann, You can definitely leave it out but it may effect the flavor.

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