Ginger Lime Marinade for Chicken
1/4 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup vegetable oil (I use olive oil)
2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
2 tablespoons grated fresh ginger (I will just slice thinly as the blender/processor takes care of it. Have also used the grated ginger available in a tube at Aldi depending on my laziness and its availability)
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1 garlic clove, minced
1 lime zest
Mix all ingredients together with hand held blender or food processor. Marinate the chicken for at least 2 hours then grill or bake.
Used this recipe for my night of dinner on a family trip to Michigan and have repeated it many times. Also have done this as the first meal on mission trips - taking the marinating chicken in the cooler. Got great reactions - especially from adults that were on a trip where we prepared all the meals for the first time. They said it upped the quality of food. It is now a go to recipe for me. I've done the chicken on the grill and baked - prefer grilled but both are good.
Excellent, thanks! I have some chicken breasts at home and was not sure what to do with them besides the usual handful of tricks. Will pick up some limes and a ginger root tonight, and then let it marinate until tomorrow's dinner. (Can it marinate for a day? Should not be enough citrus to "cook" the meat like a ceviche but perhaps I'm wrong).
I bet that would work well on shrimp too.
I made the crew chocolate chip pancakes this morning as a Snow Day Surprise!
We didn't get all that much snow. Boston pretty much completely dodged the big storm. I'm just west of Boston and we got 6-8 inches but it was interspersed with some freezing rain, so, icy but not too much accumulation on the roads.
Boston Globe says Newton got 7.5 inches. I have learned to eyeball snow amounts fairly well after a few dozen New England winters.