Hi guys, I'm Laura Vitale and on this episode of Laura in the Kitchen, I want to share with
you a delicious recipe for my Mojo Roasted Chicken.
The Mojo Roasted Chicken or Grilled Chicken in just a marinade is sort of like a traditional
Cuban dish, this is by no means traditional, this is my take on it, but it is so delicious,
it is so flavorful and it is just magnificent, and you can do this in the oven like I'm going
to do today, because it's pouring rain outside or you can do this on your outdoor grill.
Either way it would be delicious.
Let me run you through the list of ingredients you'll need for the marinade for the chicken
which is everything you'll need really.
What I've got in here are some bone-in skin-on chicken thighs and some chicken drumsticks,
I prefer the skin-on bone-in for this but you can do like a boneless skinless thighs
or you can do chicken breast if you want to.
If you're going to put it on the grill.
You need oranges, lime, lots of cilantro, fresh oregano, lots of garlic, salt, pepper
and olive oil and that's pretty much it.
It's really easy and simple, but it is phenomenal.
The combination of the orange and the oregano and the lime and everything together is just
absolutely insanely good, so what we are going to work on next now that that's in there.
I'm going to zest and juice the lime and the orange right in here because I'm going to
have to add this to my little mini chopper so might as well do all of that here in this
one bowl and then we'll add it all together.
Beautiful.
Do not throw these away because those I'm going to chop up and put right in a roasting
pan later to roast alongside.
Alright, now you're going to add all of this to your mini food chopper.
Look how much juice came out, that lime was so small, but so mighty.
There was so much juice in there I couldn't believe it.
Get that all in there.
Let's put the lid on and let's puree.
Going to add some olive oil, about a quarter cup here.
A good healthy pinch of salt, this is the only time that you're using to actually salt
your meat so make sure it's well salted.
And then just get it going.
You can keep going until it's completely smooth and pureed, but I kind of quite like it chunky,
so some of the herbs pop out, and plus this is going to marinate for a long time so it's
going to absorb all of that amazing flavor so just make sure that you coat the chicken
in all of it's marinade.
And then you're going to cover this with some plastic wrap and pop it into the fridge I'd
say for about a minimum of 6 hours, but really overnight, this would be wonderful, just make
sure it's all coated.
I'm actually going to move this to a large resealable bag because I just want to make
sure that every part of the chicken is well covered in the marinade, and I don't like
that some pieces stick up from the marinade in the bowl.
So i'm going to go ahead and do that and I'm going to seal it really tightly once you add
all the marinade in.
And pop it into - where's my spatula?
There we go.
And just pop it into the fridge for a while.
Alright so I just popped my chicken in a large roasting pan, remember the orange that I juiced
earlier?
I told you I was going to cut it into quarters, what I'm going to do now is just sort of tuck
this all around and whatever leftover marinade was in the bag, I just threw that right in
there as well.
Because it's all going to bubble up and be absolutely delicious.
I've got a few cloves of garlic.
I didn't even bother peeling them, just going to throw them in there like so.
425F for 40 to 45 minutes or so I'll show you what it looks like when it is done and
it is going to be so good, just be prepared for your house to smell heavenly.
You know we are coming a long way with YouTube, the Internet, lost of things, how have we
not come up with Smellavision yet?
Look at this, look at the delicious gorgeous, I mean I just took a piece of that awesome.
And it smells insane in here.
Insane.
I'm just doing it.
Just doing it.
Piece of my chicken.
In the pan, I'm sorry, I'm one of those people you know, especially when there's nobody else
for dinner I have nobody to impress.
Mmm!
That is the best marinade ever in the whole entire world and it would be good on my feet.
I don't know that my feet would be good but it would be good on anything and everything.
I think it does work best, absolutely it works best with dark meat chicken, but if you're
going to do this on chicken breast, make sure that you marinate this for a really long time
so that that citrus can really tenderize that white meat.
And you put it on the grill and you just grill it long enough so that the juices run clear
and it's juicy perfection because it's way too good to be ruined by dry chicken.
Do you know what I'm trying to say?
It's phenomenal.
It's easy.
Serve this with some black beans, a little rice, an avocado salad, and you, my friend,
are in business.
It would be the best weekend entertaining meal or a really cozy, more of like a spruced
up cozy weeknight meal.
Go to LauraintheKitchen.com and get the written recipe, I hope you have enjoyed spending time
with me and I will see you next time.
Bye.