When I came home from work on Monday, I opened my cabinet and pulled some of my favorite ingredients out - soy sauce, rice wine vinegar, sesame seed oil, and honey. With an Asian-inspired marinade in mind, I pulled fresh ginger root from the freezer. I always keep fresh ginger in the freezer to grate into dishes. This is a trick I learned from my mom. From the fridge, I took out a bulb of garlic and a hot pepper from my mom's garden.
To make the marinade, I mixed all of these ingredients together:
- 1/4 cup soy sauce
- 1/4 cup rice wine vinegar
- 1/4 cup sesame seed oil
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1 tablespoon grated ginger
- 3 small cloves of garlic, minced
- 1 roughly chopped hot pepper with the seeds
Bret took care of the grilling while I boiled up some ears of corn.
This was another fabulous meal from the grill! The marinade gave the chicken breast a lot of flavor. Grilling the chicken helped give the chicken a nice crust while keeping the meat really moist.
Bret and I had one chicken breast each. The extra chicken breast was made for lunch the next day. I put together a salad with romaine, carrots, cucumber from my mom's garden and local radishes. The chicken breast was cut into large chunks and this made a fantastic leftover lunch!
Tell me, how do you creatively use your leftovers for lunch?
16 comments:
I love these flavors! Salads and stir fries are great leftover options.
never knew the trick about keeping ginger in the freezer! I'm doing that from now on!!
Love this recipe...sounds perfect for the grill~
You are a total grilling convert - love it! Your Asian-inspired recipes are always great!
I definitley end up incorporating leftovers into salads or pastas.
Grilling is one of my favorite summertime activities! And I love making extra of all my dinners to utilize in lunches during the week - I used some leftover tempeh a while back to make tempeh "chicken" salad for sandwiches. It was delicious!
This marinade looks great! I'm a big "throw it on salad" kind of person with the leftovers, or I'll make wraps/sandwiches. My most recent masterpiece was refried beans, sausage, and mexican cheese. Sounds weird but it was delicious!
Oh this chicken looks fantastic!! Love the marinade, yummy! :)
I totally wish that I had a grill! That's the best part of the summer for me. :-)
wow, this looks totally delicious! thanks for reminding me i'm out of ginger in the freezer :)
I just had my first good corn of the season. I ate half raw and half boiled. SO good.
Awesome marinade! Delicious! I never knew about keeping ginger in the freezer....
Dontcha just LOVE grills? It's my all time favorite way to cook meat!
Ginger in the freezer? I'm gonna have to remember this! Great looking marinade for this chicken :)
OK, I haven't STARED at your grill in the pictures, but are you charcoal folks or gas folks? And keep the grilling coming, I'm loving the inspiration!!
What a tasty marinade! And I like your trick about keeping ginger in the freezer :)
Love the tip about freezing ginger! This marinade sounds delicious :)
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