Let’s get marinading.
BBQ season is upon us again and the hunt for great dishes to either add onto the BBQ or to accompany a BBQ’d meal is on. I particularly love BBQing chicken. Even with a good marinade, the slightly smoky charred flavour adds an extra dimension, not to mention food always tastes better when you cooked it outside.
While buying meats from the supermarket already coated in marinade and seasonings is convenient, I don’t always like what they use and often their coatings used is high in salt, sugar and non-descript flavour enhancers. So making sure I have a few marinades I can tap into is essential. This means I can control all the ingredients added, especially when my kids are eating it.
This marinade is fantastic. It’s quick to make and really adds a wonderful flavour into the chicken. One of the ingredients is Sumac. You can find this spice in the supermarket. It’s a dark red spice made from the fruit of a shrub that grows throughout the Middle East and the Mediterranean. These berries vary in colour from brick red to dark purple, depending on where the shrub is grown and the spice adds a wonderful tangy lemon flavour in dishes. I like to make this chicken and serve it with tabouli and hummus but it’s great with just about anything you choose to serve it with. It’s your choice if you cook this in your oven or on the BBQ but either way, this marinade won’t fail expectations.
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Mediterranean Marinade
Ingredients
- 2 chicken breasts (or 4-6 thigh fillets)
- 4 -5 cloves garlic, crushed
- 2-3 tablespoons lemon juice
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 1 teaspoon sumac
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 large ziploc bag
Instructions
- Mix all ingredients together.
- Place chicken inside ziploc bag and add the marinade.
- Seal shut and refrigerate for at least 2 hours but the longer the better to let the flavour infuse.