This basic brine can be used for any kind of chicken, really in any application. The point of brining chicken – with buttermilk, vinegar, pickle juice, shrub – is to both tenderize and inject extra flavor. We did a combination of buttermilk and shrub for our experiment, but you could go all shrub or all buttermilk if you felt like it.
Ingredients:
🐓 2 cups buttermilk
🐓 1 cup Apple, Rosemary and Flowers Shrub
🐓 3 ish lbs bone in chicken, 2 ish lbs boneless chicken
🐓 1 tbsp Salt
🐓 Black Pepper
🐓 3-4 cloves garlic and/or ½ yellow onion and/or 1 shallot–any and all chopped, sliced etc.
Directions:
🐓 Put all ingredients into a bowl or ziplock bag.
🐓 Stir, massage, shake everything together making sure chicken is covered generously in shrubrine.
🐓 Refrigerate for 1 hr and up to 24 hrs.
🐓 Proceed with whatever chicken recipe you’ve got on your mind, knowing your foundational ingredient is already upleveled and sure to be delicious.