Brilliant Basil Chicken Marinade for Grill

If you are looking for the best chicken marinade for grill recipe, the following might appeal to you. Combining garlic, basil, red onion and more, to make a full-flavored marinade, this can be used to marinate chicken for up to twelve hours. Cooking the chicken over a charcoal grill finishes it off to perfection, adding a smoky flavor too.

You can of course use a gas or electric grill if that is all you have but you will not get the same smoky flavor from one of those. If the weather is poor though, an indoor electric grill is better than nothing at all, and it means you will get to experience the wonderful taste of this basil chicken marinade recipe.

Garnish the chicken with extra basil sprigs if you choose, and perhaps serve it on a bed of boiled white rice or mashed potatoes. This is a fairly simple chicken marinade recipe and if you are having friends over for a cookout it is a nice one to make. There are lots of different recipes to choose from when marinating chicken, and this is one of the tastiest despite it being so easy to put together.

Chicken Marinade for Grill with Garlic

Summary: Red onion, basil and garlic are among the ingredients in this flavorful grilled chicken marinade recipe. This will give your poultry a mouthwatering flavor and help keep it moist too.

Ingredients

1 tablespoon olive oil
4 whole boneless, skinless chicken breast halves, ½ lb each
1 whole chopped garlic clove
2 teaspoons salt
1 tablespoon red wine vinegar
1 teaspoon whole black peppercorns
1 tablespoon chopped basil leaves
1 tablespoon finely chopped red onion

Instructions

Whisk the vinegar, oil, onion, basil, garlic, salt and peppercorns together.

Transfer the marinade into a gallon Ziploc bag and seal it.

Add the chicken, shake to combine, then refrigerate for at least 3 hours (or up to 12 hours).

Preheat the grill.

Take the chicken out of the marinade and grill it, turning once, for 4 minutes per side or until it is cooked through.

Further details

Enough for (Serves 4).

Preparation time is approximately 15 min

Grilling chicken on a grate will give it attractive grill-marks, and that is part of the appeal, as well as the wonderful smoky flavor it takes on. Using this basil marinade infuses your chicken with flavor and transforms it from a basic ingredient into something tasty and special. Serve the chicken with colorful ingredients like the carrot, broccoli and tomato you see in this picture, or take your pick from lots of different side dish options to personalize the dish and make it unique. A sprig of rosemary, basil or parsley finishes off the presentation perfectly.

El Pollo Loco Style Chicken Marinade

A typical El Pollo chicken breast is tender, tasty and succulent, and those are the results you will get if you make this recipe. This unique flavor is down to the exciting chicken marinade recipe used at El Pollo and, using the following recipe for El Pollo Loco chicken marinade, you can make your own version of this popular delicacy. Everyone is sure to be very impressed with it.

If you have the following ingredients, plus some macaroni and cheese and warm tortillas to serve on the side, you can make this wonderful treat. Give everybody in your family a fantastic dinner by preparing this flavorful meal and they are sure to request it time and time again because this makes an unforgettable dinner, even if you are a newbie in the kitchen or at the grill.

El Pollo Loco uses a few drops of yellow food coloring in the marinade to make sure the chicken looks appetizing when it is served. This is not necessary if you are making this chicken dish for your family but if you want to use food coloring, you will need about 8 drops of it for this recipe, to get the correct color.

Chicken Marinade from El Pollo Loco

Summary: El Pollo Loco chicken is special, and everyone will enjoy the fantastic flavor of this dish. You will find the chicken marinade easy to prepare and the results truly mouthwatering.

Contributed by Christine Szalay-Kudra

Ingredients

½ teaspoon crumbled dried oregano
½ teaspoon salt
⅛ teaspoon black pepper
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
¼ teaspoon finely minced chilies
1 tablespoon white vinegar
6 oz pineapple juice
2 tablespoons lime juice
2 whole minced garlic cloves
4 lbs chicken pieces

Instructions

Combine the oregano, salt, pepper, vegetable oil, chilies, vinegar, pineapple juice, lime juice, and garlic.

Reserve ¼ of this mixture for basting.

Use the rest to marinate the chicken pieces, ensuring they are completely covered in the mixture.

Let the chicken marinate overnight, turning it over once.

Grill the chicken on a moderately hot grill, basting it with the reserved marinade a couple of times during cooking.

Further details

Enough for (Serves 6).

Preparation time is approximately 15 min

El Pollo Loco Style Chicken

Serve this El Pollo Loco chicken with a fresh salad to make the meal healthy and fresh-tasting. Chicken served with salad on the side is always nice in the warmer months, and you can get away with serving this in the fall or winter if you serve perhaps a hot soup as an appetizer and grill the chicken indoors on an electric grill. You could even use a griddle pan on the stove, since that will char the chicken and give you grill-marks just like if you were to use an outdoor grill. This recipe is brilliantly easy and anyone can make it.

Traditional Chicken Marinade Moroccan Style

Perhaps you are thinking about making a different marinade for chicken than the one you usually use, in which case this chicken marinade Moroccan style might tempt you. A lot of Moroccan dishes are simple yet fragrant and tasty. This cuisine is incredibly diverse, mainly because of Morocco’s interaction with other nations and cultures. The cuisine has been subject to Arab, Berber and Moorish influences, and the dishes have been refined over the years, giving us the modern Moroccan cuisine what we know today.

Mediterranean vegetables and fruits are popular there, as well as a few tropical varieties. Beef, lamb, mutton, camel, seafood, rabbit and chicken are all enjoyed, and typical Moroccan flavors include dried fruits, lemon pickle, olive oil and spices. Moroccan food is more heavily spiced than Middle Eastern food. Spices have been imported into Morocco for thousands of years, and some of the most common ones include cumin, cinnamon, ginger, turmeric, paprika, coriander, mint, parsley, and saffron.

This chicken marinade Moroccan recipe features aromatic flavors such as cumin, cilantro, cayenne, coriander, turmeric, and cinnamon, all of which combine perfectly to make a fragrant and very flavorful marinade for the chicken. Let the chicken soak in the Moroccan marinade for at least an hour, or overnight for a richer flavor.

Authentic Chicken Marinade Moroccan Recipe

Summary: The mouthwatering Moroccan menu idea is sure to tantalize your taste buds and it is easy to make and enjoy this amazing-flavored marinated chicken recipe.

Ingredients

1 whole chicken, in 8 pieces
⅛ teaspoon cayenne
2 tablespoons chopped cilantro
1 ½ teaspoons coriander seeds
¼ teaspoon turmeric
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 ½ teaspoons cumin seeds
½ cup olive oil
2 teaspoons paprika
2 whole minced garlic cloves
¼ teaspoon cinnamon
Salt and black pepper, to taste

Instructions

Toast the coriander and cumin seeds in a skillet over a high heat for half a minute, and then grind them in a spice grinder or mortar.

Transfer them to a bowl.

Stir in the olive oil, paprika, lemon juice, cayenne, salt, black pepper, turmeric, cinnamon, and garlic.

Arrange the chicken pieces in a glass dish and pour the marinade over, turning to coat.

Cover and chill for at least an hour.

Preheat the grill to medium and, when it is ready, cook the chicken pieces for about 20 minutes or until they are done.

Use the remaining marinade to baste the chicken halfway through the cooking time.

Sprinkle the chopped cilantro over the cooked chicken before serving.

Further details

Enough for (Serves 4).

Preparation time is approximately 15 min

Serve this Moroccan chicken with any side dishes you like, or take inspiration from the photo and make a Moroccan sweet potato salad, combining sweet potatoes with raisins, onion, parsley, lemon juice, ginger and more, to give it an authentic flavor. Serve this salad warm or chilled (allow it to marinade for an hour first so the flavors can blend) alongside the hot chicken breast. Moroccan cuisine is delicious and making a side dish like this means you can provide flavors which are sure to complement the chicken. Alternatively this chicken goes great with fries or mashed potatoes if you want something simpler.

Greek Yogurt Chicken Marinade with Ginger and Lemon

This mouthwatering dish is made by soaking your chicken overnight in a tasty Greek yogurt marinade. The marinade features onion, lemon juice, garlic, ginger, and garam masala, so you can imagine how flavorful it is. Allowing the chicken to marinate for such a long time really infuses it with the aromatic flavors and gives it a truly special taste.

The recipe also includes directions for making a cucumber salad to serve on the side. Although you can omit that if you want, it is included here because it goes so amazingly well with the chicken. Also, you might wish to serve pita or naan bread with this, to make it a full meal. The cucumber salad is cooling and refreshing, which is the perfect contrast with the spiced chicken drumsticks. Without marinating, this meal simply would not be the same. The drumsticks would seem bland when served with the creamy cucumber salad, whereas using the marinade really livens them up and gives incredible results.

Use this marinade if you like Indian spices and if you want to make your chicken super-delicious. This is a nice marinade to use if you have friends coming over for a barbecue and you want to make something slightly different for them. They are sure to adore the flavors in this marinade because they permeate right through the meat.

Indian Chicken Marinade with Greek Yogurt

Summary: This fusion marinade combines Greek yogurt with Indian spices, to bring you a truly mouthwatering flavor experience. Chicken drumsticks have never been so easy to prepare or exciting to eat.

Contributed by Christine Szalay-Kudra

Published Friday, June 08, 2012

Ingredients

8 whole skinless chicken drumsticks
3 whole minced garlic cloves
1 cup full-fat Greek yogurt
3 tablespoons lemon juice
1 teaspoon garam masala
3 tablespoons chopped peeled fresh ginger

For the Cucumber Salad:

1 whole peeled, seeded, sliced cucumber
1 whole white onion
¼ cup cilantro
2 tablespoons lemon juice
2 teaspoons olive oil
Salt and black pepper, to taste
Pita or naan bread, to serve (optional)

Instructions

Chop half the onion and thinly slice the other half.

Add the chopped half to a blender, along with 3 tablespoons of the lemon juice, the garlic, and ginger.

Puree until smooth, and then transfer to a bowl and stir in the garam masala, Greek yogurt, 2 teaspoons of salt and a teaspoon of pepper.

Add the chicken and toss to coat, then cover and refrigerate for at least 8 hours, or up to 24 hours.

Preheat the grill to medium.

Remove the chicken from the marinade, wiping off any excess.

Grill it for about 12 minutes or until cooked through, turning occasionally.

Combine the cucumber, cilantro, sliced onion, oil, and remaining 2 tablespoons lemon juice in a bowl and season with salt and pepper.

Serve the chicken with this cucumber salad, and also some pita or naan bread if liked.

Further details

Enough for (Serves 4).

Preparation time is approximately 15 min

This is what chicken drumsticks look like after you have marinated them or applied a rub. In the picture they are still raw but they will gradually cook to golden brown perfection, and the flavors from the marinade will stay clear and strong. Feel free to adapt any chicken marinade recipe. You can see the garam masala on the chicken, but also some finely chopped herbs which do not feature in the recipe. This could be mint, since that would be beautiful with the Greek yogurt, so add some mint to your marinade too if you want.

Marinade for Chicken Kabobs with Herbs

This delicious marinade contains thyme, parsley, oregano, and rosemary for an herby flavor. It also contains garlic, lemon juice, and mustard. The chicken is threaded on to skewers with sweet onion and bell pepper, to add color and crunch, and these ingredients are also soaked in the marinade, so everything has the same delicious taste. Making kabobs is really easy and if you want to grill some chicken you might like to consider these.

You can marinate the poultry in this marinade for chicken kabobs for four to twenty four hours, depending how much time you have and how strong you want the marinade flavor to be. Perhaps you are not a beginner to kabobs, since this is quite a basic thing to make, and most people who are experienced with the grill have made kabobs at one time or another. But have you ever marinated the chicken first?

It actually makes quite a lot of difference to the finished dish, since the kabobs will boast the subtle, aromatic flavors of everything in the marinade, and the herbs, lemon, mustard and other ingredients complement the natural mildness of the chicken beautifully, and turn a simple dish into a gourmet delight without adding a whole lot of work for the cook.

Chicken Kabob Marinade with Garlic and Herbs

Summary: In this recipe, chicken is marinated in a tasty herb mixture and then threaded on to skewers with onion and bell pepper, to make colorful and mouthwatering kabobs.

Contributed by Christine Szalay-Kudra

Published Monday, October 07, 2011

Ingredients

2 lbs skinless, boneless chicken breast halves, cubed
2 whole minced garlic cloves
½ cup olive oil
1 tablespoon chopped fresh thyme or 1 teaspoon dried thyme
1 teaspoon black pepper
2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
¼ cup lemon juice
2 tablespoons dried oregano
2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
1 whole red bell pepper, in 2 inch strips
1 whole green bell pepper, in 2 inch strips
1 whole Vidalia onion, in wedges
1 tablespoon chopped fresh rosemary or 1 teaspoon dried rosemary

Instructions

Combine the garlic, olive oil, thyme, pepper, parsley, lemon juice, oregano, mustard, and rosemary to make the marinade.

Add the marinade to a big Ziploc bag, along with the chicken, onion, and bell pepper.

Seal and squish the bag so everything is well coated.

Refrigerate overnight.

Preheat the grill to moderately high.

Discard the marinade and thread the chicken and veggies on to skewers, leaving a small space between each piece of chicken or vegetable.

Oil the grill grate lightly.

Grill the chicken kabobs for 10 minutes, turning them when necessary, or until the chicken is cooked.

Further details

Enough for (Makes 5 Kabobs).

Preparation time is approximately 15 min

Marinade for Chicken Kabobs

Adding bell pepper adds plenty of color to these tasty marinated kabobs, as you can see from the picture, and the bell pepper and onion also add plenty of flavor and nutrients. Choose from sweet onion, red onion or just regular onion, depending what is available and which you prefer. You can see how the light charring on the kabobs makes them look even more appealing, and these are sure to be received with glee when you serve them to your family or dinner guests. Everyone loves juicy kabobs with herb-marinated chicken!