A Chicken Marinade to Remember

[cherydactyl]

I made a chicken marinade to die for tonight. Really, our grilled chicken was that good.

A big blob of TJ's sweet hot mustard
Some orange blossom honey
A whole lot of Penzey's Herbes de Provence
some olive oil
some white vinegar and some water
A little salt
a few drops of Louisiana hot sauce

When I do it again (there is no 'if' about it), I will add more mustard or stronger mustard or maybe try ground mustard instead of prepared, slightly less Herbes de Provence, and/or sub lemon juice for the vinegar, which I would have used tonight if I had had it on hand. The lavender was definitely the most front-and-center flavor.

The (non-dairy) creamed spinach I made and the leftover curried chickpeas were wonderful accompaniments, even if having hot Indian with mild French seems culinarily odd.

I almost cannot wait to make chicken salad out of the leftovers.

Comments

[yogaswirl.livejournal.com]

OK, I am so totally trying that this week... I even have the Trader Joe's mustard in my fridge and Penzey's spices already :D

[cherydactyl.livejournal.com]

Raspberry vinegar would have been good too, I think.

Let me know what you think when you make it.

[yogaswirl.livejournal.com]

OK, I tried this tonight -- on cut-up chicken breast pieces, which I then just baked in the oven with the extra marinade for moisture. I upped the mustard like you recommended, and used a decent amount of the Herbs. I used the juice from a lemon instead of the vinegar and a 5 drops of Cholula hot sauce. I only had clover honey, but still, this was wayyyy good! Husband is happy :) More recipes, please!

[cherydactyl.livejournal.com]

Cool. I'm glad it translated.

I make these marinades out of whatever seems like a good idea at the time sometimes. About 90% of the time they are reasonably good, but occasionally, like this time, We Have a Winnah!

It makes we want to try to create a lemon-honey-mustard-Herbes de Provence salad dressing.
*thoughtful*

[yogaswirl.livejournal.com]

Mmm, that would be good. Add sesame seeds to it!

[cherydactyl.livejournal.com]

The chicken salad was good too, once it had a little time to meld. It was a little bland upon first making it, but awesome incarnate the next day.

Chop up any leftover chicken, add some minced onion (I used a white one, but a red would go well, and green might work too), some mayo, some dried fruit (I used TJ dried blueberries), and a bunch of fresh ground black pepper. You could add a bit more herbes de provence if you felt like it, too.

I left out the sunflower seeds that I wanted to add for illyaa's sake. He doesn't like nuts or anything remotely like them much. But I sprinkled them on my own sandwiches when I assembled them.

[tammylc.livejournal.com]

The (non-dairy) creamed spinach I made and the leftover curried chickpeas were wonderful accompaniments, even if having hot Indian with mild French seems culinarily odd.

Fusion, just call it fusion...

[cherydactyl.livejournal.com]

Right. Whatever it was, it was really good. :)