Posted on 01/16/2021 9:12:55 AM PST by PJ-Comix
In this video I demonstrate how to make marinade out of Achiote paste that will drastically improve the quality of your barbecue food, especially chicken. In fact, I have never been satisfied with the quality of barbecue chicken...until I barbecued chicken using Achiote.
It is very easy to prepare the Achiote marinade as I demonstrate in this video. It will greatly improve both the taste and texture of your food.
Brining:
1 tbsp kosher salt
1 tsp crushed thyme
Marinade:
3 oranges squeezed
2 limes squeezed
1 tsp kosher salt
1 tsp cummin
1 tsp crushed peppercorns
3 cloves crushed garlic
1.75 oz Achiote Paste
I’m ashamed to say I’ve never used achiote paste….. and I consider myself something of a “foodie.”
PING!
I’ve always called it annatto, and would never use it in BBQ.
You definitely will want to try it. I recommend you first try it on chicken leg quarters because that is maybe the least favored part of the chicken yet the achiote has a transformative effect on it to the extent of making it better (taste and texture) than chicken breasts or thighs barbecued via other methods.
Why? I've used it for oven cooked food but it works best on barbecue food.
Sounds great!
Paste on chicken?
No thanks.
Had a girl in my class in grade school who ate paste.
Glued her innards together.
I guess you missed the part where you DISSOLVE the Achiote paste in orange and lime juices.
Her problem was she ate it raw. She needed to BBQ it first….
Glued her innards together.
LOL! This is hardly superglue or anything close to it. This is FOOD paste which CRUMBLES when you squeeze it into the fruit juices where it DISSOLVES.
I did something like this with a pork roast. Slow roasted it until it was falling apart, then shredded it and then finished it off in a cast iron skillet. Then put it in flour tortillas with frijoles and fried onions and peppers.
Carnitas!
There was thyme enough at last!
So if you eat this pasty chicken you should wash it down with Screwdrivers and Margaritas?
Works for me.
I’ll have my paste extra crispy, please.
She needed to CRUMBLE it first into fruit juices where it DISSOLVES. BTW, I've been using this Achiote paste (which, again, is DISSOLVED) with absolutely NO side effects. Oh, and I have not read of anybody who suffered from it either. The idea of this paste which CRUMBLES and then DISSOLVES as somehow harmful is laughable.
Oh.....like that Simon and Garfield song.
“Are you going to Joey Scarborough’s fair?
Parsnips, sage something and time
Push over some girls
And get a job at nbc.”
Many moons ago, when I was in the Meat Dept at walmart, we sold more bags of chicken leg quarters than anything else.
I make a Yucatán pork dish called cochinita pibil using achiote paste. Great tacos. I’ll have to try it on some smoked meats.
I suppose you grew up in some fancy schmancy school that had barbecues in every classroom.
Well, we didn’t.
We were lucky to have one hot plate and only one side worked.
Price is probably the reason. I get 10 lb bags of them at Aldi's for $5.89. The great thing about using Achiote marinade on them is that it is a SIGNIFICANT upgrade to the chicken leg quarters.
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