Meals Made Ahead: Italian Citrus Marinade

Monday, January 18, 2010

Italian Citrus Marinade

2 cups pineapple juice
1/3 cup bottled Italian dressing (diet is fine)
1/2 cup soy sauce (low sodium is fine)
1 tsp. ground ginger
2 cloves garlic, minced

Dump all ingredients in a freezer bag and squish to mix. Add fresh meat (see below for quantity), label and freeze.

Thaw before preparing. Grill, broil, or pan-fry pork chops or chicken breasts. Marinade must be boiled for two minutes before eating or discarded.

Makes approximately 3 cups of marinade- enough for 6-8 pork chops or 4-6 chicken breasts.

1 comment:

TristyMarch 4, 2010 at 2:18 PM
I really, really liked this marinade. It was very light, so the girls ate it really well, but it was something different than plain chicken. (I baked it in the oven with the marinade.--In the future, I may make it like the lemonade chicken & thicken the sauce. Also, if you like a little spice, some hot red pepper flakes would do the trick!)
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We are a group of moms who get together about once a month or so to cook Meals Made Ahead.

Meals Made Ahead are great because it's nice to always have something in the freezer for those nights that are busy, those nights when you can't think of anything to make, those nights when you have nothing to cook with because you didn't feel like dragging two screaming kids through the grocery store, those nights when you just don't feel like cooking.

Sure, we could do this on our own. But it's much more fun to cook with friends (and share the clean up!)

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