Simple Red Wine Marinade for Chicken

I am all for quick and easy marinade for meat.  I often do not decide what I am cooking for dinner until a hour or more before I need to cook it. This is where the Simple Red Wine Marinade comes in.  With only two ingredients plus the chicken, so actually three ingredients you will feel like you have slow cooked the chicken for hours.  Optimally you will marinate the chicken for about 1 hour.  You can do more or less.  You can just put the chicken in the marinade and cook it with out even letting it sit. 


Simple Red Wine Marinade for Chicken

1 package of chicken thighs about 4-6, skinless
1-2 cups of red wine, enough that all the thighs are at least half way immersed in the wine.  You can also use white wine for this recipe.
1/4 cup cow butter, or an equivalent

To marinate the chicken place it in a bowl, preferably the same one you will bake it in, and pour in enough red wine that the down side of the chicken thighs are in the wine.  You will add the butter when you are ready to cook the chicken.  Marinate for up to an hour.  Add butter to chicken marinade and cover with a lid.  Place in 350 Bake oven and bake until it is cooked to your liking.  It will likely take 30 to 45 minutes.

Great served on rice, with polenta triangles, and with a fresh springtime green salad.