Worcestershire Chicken Marinade with Bay Leaves
This yummy chicken marinade recipe combines two strong-tasting ingredients – soy sauce and Worcestershire sauce – with vinegar, bay leaves and garlic. The chicken is marinated whole and then some of the marinade ingredients are reused to serve as a stuffing for the chicken, giving it lots of flavor. If you want to cook a whole chicken then this Worcestershire chicken marinade is sure to keep it juicy and succulent, and tasty at the same time. A good chicken marinade can help keep chicken moist but it can still dry out if overcooked. Using butter helps crisp up the skin.
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Marinating: 3 hours
- Cook Time: 90 minutes
- Total Time: 5 hours
- Yield: 6 1x
- Method: Oven
Ingredients
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- 1/3 cup (80 ml) vinegar
- 3 bay leaves
- 3/4 cup (180ml) soy sauce
- 2 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 4 crushed garlic cloves
- 1 teaspoon white sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
To serve:
- 1 whole chicken
- 1 chopped onion
- 2 tablespoons butter
Instructions
- Rinse the chicken inside and outside and pat it dry.
- Combine the soy sauce, vinegar, bay leaves, black pepper, garlic, Worcestershire sauce, salt and sugar in a bowl.
- Add in the chicken and marinate in the refrigerator for 3 hours minimum, turning it once halfway through the time.
- Drain the chicken. Take the garlic and bay leaves out of the marinade and discard the rest.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C).
- Stuff the chicken with the bay leaves, garlic and onion.
- Bake for 1½ hours.
- Brush the butter over the chicken and give it 5 more minutes.
Notes
- The chicken will take around 90 minutes to completely cook but this depends on the size of the bird as well as your oven so keep an eye on it.
- This is one of the nicest chicken marinade recipes – I’ve made it a lot.