Citrus Marinade Recipe

I like to collect the recipes for marinades and sometime, try my own formula for marinating my favorite meat. There are many recipes I can try but on basic rule, I understand is the acid and flavor that will affect the meat. Some recipes that I will remove the ingredient that I think it is not needed to be added since other ingredients will give me more flavors.

In my own words, the recipe is an instruction to show you how to do, make, cook your food and translate food into the result that you want how it tasted or not. With the recipe, you can change few ingredients that you don't like to have or not have one, replace with something good to flavor your food.

I had seen some recipes that required some exotic stuff that you might not find one in store--I don't feel like going fifty miles to that specialty store to find a ingredient. I had been introduced to many new food and new ingredients--for example, I don't know about the kaffir lime leaf until year ago, I found one in my Thai soup at a restaurant--very lime but it turned my soup into very delicious with shrimp, coconut, and curry. For this example, do you really want to go fifty miles to find the kaffir lime for your good Thai soup recipe? You can replace it with good lime juice to enhance the flavor in your soup.

Citrus Marinade

Juice of 2 limes
Juice of 1 lemon
Juice of 2 small oranges
Water
2 large garlic cloves, crushed
1 tsp. annatto seeds, crushed
1/2 tsp. oregano, crushed
1/2 tsp. ground cumin seeds
1/4 tsp. ground cloves
1/4 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp. Tabasco sauce
1 tsp. salt or to taste

Mix citrus juices together and add enough water, if needed, to
make 1 cup. Mix in remaining ingredients.

The recipe suggested using a 3.5 to 4 pound chicken, but feel free to use chicken breasts or any other chicken parts, boneless or not. Marinate for 4 to 24 hours in the refrigerator.

In my opinion, I think I don't need any annatto seeds to add to this recipe. I like very citrusy flavor in chicken and I like them grilled. There are many good recipes for citrus marinade with the variations of ingredients. That s up to your preference. I like little spicy citrus flavor marinade with chicken and pork by adding cayenne in place of Tabasco sauce.