Easy Chicken Marinade

Simple and Delicious:

My husband, the gadget lover, decided to purchase a NuWave oven…hm, never used one and really didn’t have much faith that it would do what was advertised, but okaaay. It uses convection, conduction, and infrared to cook the food and it does it all on 110-volts, not bad. The electric company is going to be disappointed over this one.

I avoid using our microwave because it cooks the life out of things, not that food is alive when you put it in the thing just that micro-waves seem to alter the natural state of foods, while the NuWave maintains the flavor, the juices, and the shape of foods without making edges hard. It turned out to be a very good purchase and I love it, however, it required me to think of dishes in a different way.

You don’t have to own a NuWave to cook the chicken but I thought you might like to hear a real person guarantee the usefulness of the little alien-looking appliance.

The marinade takes 4-ingredients and 30-minutes in the refrigerator to create the appropriate taste. 

Spices:

1 to ½ tbsp of garlic

2 tbsp of brisket rub

Liquids:

½ c Woody’s Cooking sauce (Hunts or any brand bar-b-q sauce can be substituted)

3 tbsp Worcestershire sauce

In a plastic Ziploc bag, add the spices to the sauces. Close bag and squeeze gently to mix. Add 4-boneless, skinless chicken breast to bag, knead the bag gently to coat pieces thoroughly, store in the refrigerator for 30-minutes.

Cooking:

In conventional oven, preheated to 350-degrees, place chicken on foil-covered baking pan and cook 12 to 15-minutes per side. In NuWave oven, spray rack with non-stick cooking spray and cook (setting 10—the preferred setting on the oven) 8-minutes per side. It’s a simple and fairly quick way to make a great bar-b-q in a short time with few spices.

Woody’s Cooking Sauce is a fairly savory sauce while other bar-b-q sauces tend to be sweet. Adding a small amount of onion salt, regular salt, or vinegar, will take some of the sweetness out. If you prefer your bar-b-q sauce to be sweet, then adding 2-tbsp of brown sugar, molasses (makes the marinade stick), or honey in equal proportions, will make Woody’s sauce less savory. With Worcestershire, you always want to watch the amount of salt you add because it has a salty flavor.

If you want it feisty and savory, adding 1 to 2 tsp of paprika and/or cumin (for braver heat-loving souls, cayenne is good) will give it extra flavor. Spices truly are the best way to dress up any bland or tired ingredient.

Side dishes for the chicken in our home are corn-on-the-cob and baked potatoes. Unfortunately, the only way to quickly cook a baked potato is in the microwave. Our NuWave can manage it in 47-minutes depending on the size of the potato. We start the potatoes when we put the chicken in the marinade, so that the meal gets done, all in the same time frame. I still use my stove top and my deep fryer for most vegetables, even old cooks have a new trick or two to learn with new-fangled gadgets.

Note: Due to the garlic and the brisket rub, this is not a good recipe for date nights unless your man/woman turns out to be Dracula.

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