Grapefruit Experiment - Garlic & Onions

I’ve already done the more exotic spices, so I have moved on to the more basic.  Last night I cooked up the batch of chicken I had marinating in grapefruit juice, garlic and onions.  I followed my standard baking practice (500 for 15 minutes, 350 for 30 minutes), and diced up some potatoes to roast in the pan with the chicken.

The chicken turned out good!  It was well flavored and moist.  The skin could have crisped up a bit more, but it was still tasty.  I reduced the marinade to make another sauce, and towards the end strained out the garlic and onions and finished reducing.  The sauce was very good, but the grapefruit tended to overpower both the garlic and the onion.  They got lost in the sweet/tangy grapefruit.  I hadn’t added sugar, but it was still sweeter than I would like.  I may experiment a little more with that and maybe throw in some vinegar to tone down the sweet.

I’ll definitely try this combo again, as it really did pair up well with the chicken.