Herby Chicken Thighs & Sugar Snap Pea Spring Salad

High Protein and a fabulous lunch or dinner!

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Recipe Highlights:

• A quick 15-30 minute marinade is all you need to get your chicken thighs ready for cooking while a longer marinade gives you more tenderization and flavor distribution.

• Blanching your Sugar Snap Peas followed by an ice bath locks in their color and texture, keeping them vibrant and crispy.

• Seasoning your cucumbers with salt and soaking your red onions in warm water are great tricks for each ingredient when making salads like this one!

• Adding a base of Labneh or Greek Yogurt to your plate adds a creaminess and tang that helps to tie everything together while adding protein.

• Toasting some nuts and seeds is a great way to add texture and flavor to your salad.

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Table of Contents:

• Minimum Marinade Time?
• Browning Your Chicken
• All about Spring Produce
• All about Sugar Snap Peas
• Blanche like a Devereaux
• Soaking Your Red Onions
• Salting your cucumbers
• The Best and Easiest Dressing
• Toasted Nuts & Seed Toppings
• Greek Yogurt or Labneh Base
• How to Modify
• Youtube Video
• Recipe Mods and Notes
• Full Recipe
• Macros
• Comments

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Minimum Marinade Time?

Now, I love a good marinade and marinade often. It’s a great way to tenderize and impart flavor for a large volume of food or even just a smaller family dinner sized portion.

And while I love marinading for hours or even overnight, sometimes that is just not possible between work, family and life in general. So then what do you do?

Below is a quick guide to my 3 base marinade times, from super quick to overnight that you can use to get a better idea of what’s the diff!

The Marinade Time Scale: