Lemon Chicken Marinade

This Lemon Chicken Marinade is here to make your grilled chicken extra awesome. Whether you marinate for 15 minutes or 24 hours, you'll get a big boost of vibrant flavor. It's gonna be awesome.

When you study witchcraft, you learn that your perception is your reality. And once you learn to influence your perception, your reality becomes totally different. Your power is in what you choose to believe in, what you tell yourself is real. Facts and external circumstance may remain the same, but when you change the way you think, feel, and perceive things, your experience of them is transmuted. That's magick.

So when I tell you that science shows that marinating your meat doesn't really make a difference, you know that if you believe that your chicken will taste better if it's been soaked in flavorful oil and acid, then your experience of the chicken will be improved. The good news is that you don't need to marinate your chicken for hours and hours. If you forget to do this the night before, you can still have delicious food with only a short soak. Technically, it's just flavoring the outside of the meat, but that can still have a big impact on the final result.

What makes this Lemon Chicken Marinade so awesome?

This Lemon Chicken Marinade only has a few ingredients, but each one is deeply flavorful, so they're going to wake up your chicken and make it taste bright and beautiful. With sunny lemon and oregano along with bold garlic and deeply savoury soy sauce, you're hitting all the crucial flavor notes.

Use this on any part of your chicken. You can even chop up some chicken breast and thread them on skewers before grilling. The possibilities are endless. My preference is to grill the chicken, but you could bake it as well. Make a big batch and use leftovers in salads, wraps, or sandwiches for lunch throughout the week. It's so versatile and good with everything.

Magical Properties of Lemon

I always think of lemons as having a bright and sunny flavor, but they're actually tied to the Moon and the element of water. Like all citrus fruits, it carries the energy of cleansing and purification, but you can also use it for love and protection. Add lemon juice to your moon water to help you connect to your intuition. (Source: The Hearth Witch's Compendium by Anna Franklin)

For more on the magical properties of the ingredients in this recipe, check the Kitchen Magick page.

Ingredients

Here's everything you'll need to make this recipe.

• Olive oil - You might be tempted to use extra virgin for added flavor, but if you're going to grill your chicken, be aware that it can burn. I use regular olive oil.
• Lemon juice - bottled is fine if you don't want to squeeze lemons
• Soy sauce - Worcestershire sauce would also work
• Garlic - fresh or paste
• Salt
• Pepper
• Chicken - whatever you feel like cooking

Tips for making Lemon Chicken Marinade

The easiest way to make this is to shake all the ingredients together in a jar, but you can also whisk them together in a bowl. If you still use zip top bags, this is a great vessel for marinating your chicken because there's great surface area contact for the meat. You can also go into your fridge and give it a bit of a squish from time to time. Not sure if it technically does anything, but it feels like you're really working the flavor in. But if you don't have a bag, just use a bowl and turn your chicken over or give it a stir every so often.

As I said earlier, marinating doesn't technically do anything to tenderize the chicken, but it does add flavor to the outer layer of the meat, so even if you can only marinate your chicken for 15 minutes, it's better than nothing. I think a few hours is great, but if you want to start marinating the night before, that's also awesome.

When you're ready to cook your chicken, you can just transfer it right to the grill or pan from the marinade. Discard any leftover marinade, though, as it will be contaminated by raw chicken. Grill or otherwise cook your chicken to succulent perfection and commence to feasting.

Magic is in the mind, and sometimes flavor is just about expectation. Expect this Lemon Chicken Marinade to be absolutely awesome. You won't be disappointed.

Looking for more awesome chicken recipes? Try this Crispy Honey Chicken or some easy Garlic & Herb Baked Chicken.

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Recipe slightly adapted from Bake Eat Repeat.