This is one of our favorite marinades for grilled chicken. My Ranch Yogurt Marinade has only 5 ingredients (plus salt, but if you've bought a 5 ingredient cookbook you'll see that they never count salt in the 5) and gives the chicken a ton of flavor.
I buy fresh chicken tenders and freeze them in a gallon ziploc bag with this marinade. When we are ready to have them for dinner I defrost and grill. They are moist, tender, and flavorful.
I love having a few easy meals in the freezer for nights I don't feel like cooking. And on days I've spent hours in the kitchen developing a new recipe I'm generally kitchened out when dinner rolls around. My freezer staples are cooked taco meat, cooked meatballs, and raw chicken tenders frozen in a marinade. I can get any of those from freezer to table in 30 minutes.
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1/3 cup plain yogurt
1 tbsp dill
t tbsp parsley
1 tbsp onion powder
1 tbsp garlic powder
1 tsp salt
Directions:
Mix all ingredients in a bowl or gallon size ziploc bag. Add 2.5 lbs of chicken tenders. Marinade in the refrigerator for at least 4 hours. You can also freeze the chicken in this marinade. Just thaw before grilling.
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Ingredients
- 1/3 cup plain yogurt
- 1 tbsp dill
- 1 tbsp parsley
- 1 tbsp onion powder
- 1 tbsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp salt
Instructions
- Mix all ingredients in a bowl or gallon size ziploc bag. Add 2.5 lbs of chicken tenders. Marinade in the refrigerator for at least 4 hours. You can also freeze the chicken in this marinade. Just thaw before grilling.
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Yay! A recipe that doesn’t use obscene amount of cheese and cream etc!!! I am pretty stoked, thank you. Will definitely try this:)
I do love cream. And cheese. And butter too. But I have several other ‘lighter’ recipes if you want suggestions 😉
I’m looking forward to trying this, but I mixed it up and although it tastes great, it’s so thick! Not like a traditional”marinade” at all. It’s hard to imagine it really being able to infuse the chicken with flavor because it’s so thick (the consistency of greek yogurt but with added “dryness” from the seasonings…) I’m trusting you that this will work, but am also wondering if anyone’s ever added any extra liquid— water? cream?
Thanks for so many tasty recipes 🙂
-Theresa
As long as all the chicken gets coated it will be flavorful. Just toss it until it’s coated evenly.
is this plain greek yogurt?
Yes
Mine was also very thick and holy moly was the flavour strong!!! I added some milk to thin it out a bit and to tone down the overpowering garlic flavour. Are the measurements correct? A tablespoon of garlic and onion powder? Also for the dill and parsley, you don’t specify fresh or dried.
This isn’t meant to be tasted on its own. The measurements are correct. This covers a lot of chicken tenders. I think my 2.5 lb package had about twenty. It is thick. I just toss the chicken in it but you could brush it on. I used dried herbs. You could use fresh if you have them.