Ideas for leftover feta brine?

I'm making this tomorrow or Monday, so I'll report back.

Oh great, please do!

OMG..this is my favorite chicken ever!! I eat a lot of chicken. Sometimes I brine. Sometimes I don't. Brining it in feta brine changes everything. There is a wonderful umami to the chicken. Be sure to blend the two ounces of feta into the brine. It would be weak without it. I changed it a little to accommodate what I had already. I used chicken drumsticks and preserved lemons that I keep ignoring. I used a little chicken stock to deglaze the pan. Seriously delicious chicken.

Ooh yay I'm going to try it to -- I still have that jar of brine sitting in the fridge!

Made this recipe last week and it was a keeper

That's awesome to hear Paseo. I'm a little obsessed after reading the recipe.

I'd brine pork rather than chicken. Brine changes the texture of poultry to something that I'm not particularly keen on.

Trust me (or not) cv, I had this chicken last night and it's absolutely fabulous.

Susan W,

Oh, I do believe the taste would be fabulous.

Again, I don't like the *texture* of brined poultry. That includes both chicken and turkey. I dutifully brined Thanksgiving turkeys for a couple of years until I gave up and switched back to salting the bird. I've even tried a couple of side-by-side experiments (brine vs. salt) with chicken pieces and my texture preference is for the unbrined poultry.

This is also why I do not eat commercially prepared turkey (like deli cold cuts).

Brine doesn't affect pork the same way as poultry which is why I'm down with brining pork.

It's very interesting to note that my dislike of brined poultry has been a lifelong aversion. I had very little interest in commercially produced chicken and turkey as a kid, even though I loved freshly prepared poultry.

That second brined Thanksgiving turkey that was a revelation (I used a stronger brine than the first year and also left the bird in the brine a longer). I said, "Hey, the texture of this brined bird is just like the stuff from the deli." I now had an answer to why I generally didn't like commercially prepared poultry.

Of course, lots of people seem not to mind that brined poultry texture, but it is something that I have disliked even as a little kid.

cv, I get it. I have brined many a turkey, but found while I liked the seasoning, the texture did change and I prefer my turkey dry brined or just straight up seasoned. I also never buy deli meats with the exception of a deli in town that roasts their own turkey breasts and beef no brine, nothing except salt and pepper.

Chicken is different for my taste unless it's one of the pastured chickens I get from a farmer when in season (now). I enjoy a brine on a run of the mill chicken. I won't try to talk you into trying it with the feta brine because I HATE it when people pull that on me. "Oh, but you'll surely like the way I make brussel sprouts". No, I won't.