Tigsnona wrote in message . ..
I am looking for something that will smarten up chicken thigh or
breast meat. This meat is totally bland and uninteresting and requires
marinade or savoury basting liquid.

It is left overnight and then removed and drained off (keeping the
marinade to use as a sauce later) and cooked quickly in a very hot

You can't use the marinade from raw chicken unless you thoroughly simmer it first.
(Actually, marinade from raw meat doesn't appeal to me at all as a sauce base.)

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