Buttermilk Chicken Marinade Recipe

This buttermilk chicken marinade recipe is easy, quick, and ready in 5 minutes. The buttermilk marinated chicken is moist, tender, juicy, and delicious when grilled, baked, air fried, or roasted and can be served with fried potatoes, baked vegetables, or any side dishes of your choice. Let me show you how to marinate chicken in buttermilk.

Buttermilk Chicken Marinade Recipe

This buttermilk chicken marinade recipe is simple and straightforward and anyone can make it.

Whether you are looking for buttermilk marinade for chicken to grill, fried chicken, or baked, this is the one that can be used for all that and more. It tenderizes, infuses flavor, and makes the meat moist and juicy.

This is buttermilk marinade for boneless skinless chicken breasts, chicken thighs, legs, wings, or the whole chicken but you can also use it on other poultry. It's that versatile.

Chicken marinated in buttermilk comes out moist, tender, and delicious. It is packed full of flavor and juicy. No tough rubbery chicken when you use this marinade and cook the chicken right!

This recipe is quick and can be made in under 5 minutes. Use it on chicken for as little as 30 minutes and for 4 hours up to 24 hours for best results.

Marinating chicken in buttermilk, the acidic content of the buttermilk plus the combination of spices and herbs makes the chicken tender and packed full of flavor.

This simple buttermilk marinade uses a few simple ingredients. In fact, 6 ingredients are all you need for it.

What's more? It is healthy and made with natural ingredients. No coloring, or excess salt. It's guilt-free.

Soak chicken in buttermilk for 30 minutes up to 24 hours in the fridge and you can then grill, bake, or air fry. You get flavor-packed, moist, and juicy chicken that will get people asking for more.

Related: Lemon chicken marinade, chicken wings marinade

Ingredients

The detailed ingredient list, measurements, and directions are in the recipe card at the bottom of this post.

Buttermilk

Garlic powder

Onion granules

Italian seasoning

Hot sauce or Cayenne pepper

Honey

Salt

Olive oil

How To Make Buttermilk Chicken Marinade

Measure the buttermilk into a bowl.

Add the garlic granules, onion granules, cayenne pepper, Italian seasoning, honey, oil, and salt.

Mix till all are well combined.

It is ready to use.

How To Marinate Chicken With Buttermilk

Clean chicken and pat dry.

Transfer the chicken to a Ziploc or a bowl

Pour the buttermilk marinade over the chicken in the Ziploc

Gently use your hand to massage the air out of the bag then rub so the chicken are all covered in the marinade.

Put the Ziploc in the fridge and let the chicken marinate in buttermilk for at least 30 minutes up to 24 hours.

How Long To Marinate Chicken In Buttermilk

How long can you marinate chicken in buttermilk is 30 minutes up to 24 hours. If you don't have much time you can do a quick 30 minutes however when you are not in a hurry, let it marinate for at least 4 hours.

Put it in the fridge to marinate and when ready to cook, bring it out of the fridge and let it come to room temperature before cooking.

Discard leftover buttermilk that has been in contact with the chicken.

Chicken can be grilled, air fried, pan fried, or baked.

Buttermilk Marinated Chicken

To cook marinated buttermilk chicken on the grill- Remove the chicken from the buttermilk. Place on the grill on medium heat, baste with olive and cook each side until it is cooked through.

In the oven- Remove the chicken from the marinade and arrange them on a baking paper-lined tray. Set the oven to 400F/200C  and cook buttermilk marinated chicken for 25-30 minutes or until cooked.

In the Air Fryer- Arrange the chicken breast in the air fryer in a single layer without overlapping them. Leave space between them. Set the air fryer to 400F and air fry at 400F/200C for 8 minutes. Flip the chicken with a tong and continue to air fry for 7 minutes or till cooked.

Pan fry-

What To Serve With

Buttermilk marinated chicken can be served with various side dishes some of which are suggested below:

Potatoes- Parmentier potatoes, pan fried sweet potatoes, boiled sweet potatoes, baked potato slices
Rice- Jollof rice, long grain rice, Jamaican rice and peas, spicy rice
Vegetables- Pan fried carrots, baked veggies, sauteed vegetables
Pasta- Spinach pasta, spicy pasta, lemon pasta

How To Store

To store the marinade- Put the marinade in an airtight container and store it in the fridge for up to 48 hours.

To store the buttermilk marinated chicken- Transfer the chicken to a Ziploc, or an airtight container, and store it in the fridge for up to 3 days or in the freezer for up to 3 months. It can be reheated in the oven, grill, microwave, or in air fryer.

Tips

• Adjust the pepper quantity to your taste.
• You can add any other of your favorite herbs and spices.
• Discard leftover marinade that has come into contact with the chicken.
• For fried chicken, dredge the chicken in seasoned flour for chicken after marinating in buttermilk before frying.

FAQS

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