My husband is a retired butcher and I am certified in Culinary Arts. Marinades are expensive. Try soaking your beef steak or roast in Cola or Dr. Thunder from Walmart. Cover for 24 hrs. Then season and cook.
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This recipe is excellent to use to marinate beef, chicken, fish and pork.
This is super easy. A friend told me that if you marinate your poultry/pork/beef etc in ginger ale, not only will you have a tasty result but it also tenderizes even the most tough bargain cuts of meat.
I am on a cilantro kick this summer and just tried this. I love it as a marinade for grilling kabobs, but it doesn't need to be used only for kabobs!
I love making marinades! Not only do they give meat flavor but also tenderizes meat. You can do this on shopping day before you freeze all your meat, using heavy duty freezer bags. Meat preparation on food shopping day!
Whisk all ingredients together. Taste for seasoning. I use this for a light salad dressing and a meat marinade. It is quite versatile. It doubles easily.
I used to make a wonderful marinade for steak with a couple of ingredients including Vegemite and Sherry. It was on a Vegemite label but I lost this recipe years ago.
My Papa (Grampa) came here from Niceon, Greece. Lots of foods he taught my Grama to cook had a citrus flavor. I can't afford lamb like they used but this marinade is also excellent with beef, fish, poultry or shrimp.
What are the proportions of acid to oil, etc, in making your own marinade?
Try this super easy marinade. It can be used for chicken, beef, or pork.
Mix all ingredients except the salt and pepper in a bowl, then pour into either a container with a lid that seals, or into a zip-lock bag.
Mix together and add meat desired. Marinate in the fridge for 24 hours (turning meat often). Excellent for pork chops...
Even the most "not so tender" cut of meat, such as beef chuck blade can cook so tender you would not know it's chuck. The secret is to marinate the beef chuck over night.
Even the most "not so tender" cut of meat, such as beef chuck blade can cook so tender you would not know it's chuck.
Recipe for Soy Sauce Marinade - Combine ingredients. Use to marinate beef, pork, or chicken before grilling or broiling. Makes 1 1/4 cups.
This is better the second day than the first. Makes the meat so tender, great flavor!
Combine all ingredients, mix thoroughly. Pour over vegetables to marinate.
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I haven't bought any stir-fry or marinades for ages and don't intend to... as I am trying to cook from sratch as much as possible but the only one I have that I can make from scratch is a soy/garlic/sweet stir-fry sauce which I double as a marinade. To be honest, I'm rather tired of using the same one each time I cook marinated steak or stir-fries.
Have you ever tried a dry rub on roast chicken or beef??? Just rub the meat with olive oil and then a mixture of equal parts salt, pepper, paprika, and brown sugar and broil over a grill. I can't tell you how wonderful that is!! Also, lemon or lime juice, garlic and parmesan cheese is very good on chicken. Don't use acids too long on chicken before cooking or it will go to mush. I found out the hard way. I wouldn't marinade poultry in acids (sours) any longer than a half an hour before cooking.
This is the recipe that I use a lot.
Korean Marinade
1/2 cup soy sauce
4 green onions, finely chopped
4 cloves garlic, minced
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup dark sesame oil
1/4 cup dry sherry
1 tablespoon grated ginger root
&frac; teaspoon pepper
Mix all together.
I have used this on beef, chicken, pork and shrimp.
BEEF OR PORK MARINADE
&frac; c. soy sauce
2 tbsp. brown sugar
&frac; tsp. ginger
2 tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
1 tbsp. lemon juice
Whisk all together and pour over meat. Let sit in fridge, turning occasionally, for a couple of hours.
CURRIED YOGURT MARINADE
&frac; c. plain yogurt (minus 1 tbsp.)
1 tbsp. honey
1 tbsp. curry powder
1 tbsp. olive oil or cooking oil
&frac; tsp. salt
In a small bowl, combine all ingredients. Makes enough for 1-1&frac; lbs. of meat. Marinate meats for 2-4 hours. Can be used to marinade pork, chicken, lamb, or beef for grilling. Long cooking meats should be cooked on indirect heat so that honey doesn't burn. Makes about 1/3 cup marinade.
SUMMER CITRUS MARINADE
4 cloves minced garlic
&frac; c. lime juice
&frac; c. olive oil
2 tbsp. lemon juice
2 tbsp. honey
Salt and pepper to taste
Whisk together all ingredients, reserving one tablespoon for basting. Marinade chicken for 1 hour. As chicken is being grilled, use reserved sauce for a baste.
WASABE MAPLE MARINADE
2 tbsp. wasabi powder (if unable to find wasabi powder, replace with 2 tbsps. Horseradish)
&frac; c. real maple syrup
&frac; c. extra virgin olive oil
&frac; c. red wine vinegar
1 clove of garlic, minced fine
1 tbsp. minced shallot or red onion
&frac; tsp. coarsely ground black pepper
&frac; c. cold water
In a medium sized mixing bowl, mix all ingredients thoroughly and store in an airtight container. When you are ready to use this marinade, bring it up to room temperature to allow the olive oil to liquefy. Thoroughly coat your meat or vegetable and allow to soak for 1-2 hours in the refrigerator before grilling.
SESAME SEED MARINADE
1 tbsp. brown sugar
3 tbsp. soy sauce
1 tbsp. sesame seeds
2 cloves garlic; chopped
1/8 tsp. fresh black pepper
4 boneless or bone-in chicken breast halves
Combine all ingredients except chicken in a shallow dish. Mix well. Add chicken, turning to coat. Cover and marinate in the refrigerator at least 2 hours. Remove chicken from marinade. Place the marinade in a small saucepan and heat to a boil, then cool. Place the chicken on the grill over medium-hot coals until chicken is done, and juices run clear. Turn and baste frequently with reserved marinade. Serves 4.
Hmmm... not sure why the fractions didn't come through on the posts. They looked fine when I previewed them! Anyway, here's the fractions for the recipes I just posted:
BEEF/PORK MARINADE
1/2 c. soy sauce
1/2 tsp. ginger
CURRIED YOGURT MARINADE
1/4 c. yogurt
1/2 tsp. salt
CITRUS MARINADE
1/2 c. lime juice
1/2 c. olive oil
WASABE MARINADE
1/4 c. maple syrup
1/2 c. olive oil
3/4 c. red wine vinegar
1/2 tsp. pepper
1/4 c. water
Try a dry rub. Rub roast meat with oil. Mix ground oregano and paprika and garlic salt. Rub on top of oil. I use cooking wine to bake it in. Drench it with the wine after rub. It smells like lasagna but its best beef or pork ever. The amounts of spices is up to you. I use more garlic salt then the other two. Experiment with it.
I learned this in the military, experimenting with meat.
Take a cheapo beer(amount depends on amount of meat) Pop the top and let it sit in the fridge over night.
Get some steak rub, garlic powder, black pepper, XX virgin olive oil, cayenne pepper, salt, dash of cinnamon. Mix in bowl. Heat up oil/spices before introducing to meat(microwave is just fine)
Once beer is flat, poor in bag with meat. Add oil/spices. Let sit for close to 12 hours or so. Squeezing and shaking bag every now and then.
Grill... Enjoy.
More of a "throw together" for a cook out. But I always get lots of compliments.
For even more flavor. I usually do 2-4lbs steaks, so yes, you'll almost have grill marks yourself by the time you are finished cooking. I go medium rare, slow cook the entire time. Once cook to desired temp, throw some(very little) lemon squirts on it. Serve, enjoy!
I'm looking for a recipe my mom had found in the late 60s or early 70s that was a marinade for a chuck roast to be grilled. What I remember about it is that I think it uses an orange colored bottled sauce as a base, (Heinz steak sauce?), and the chuck roast was put with the marinade in a container and left over night. The next day it was take out and put on the grill.
Whatever was in it tenderized the chuck and gave it a wonderful flavor, and the grill glazed it nicely. It was a family favorite for a number of years while we were still at home. I had asked mom about it before she passed a couple of years ago, she remembered it, but didn't remember the recipe. We lived in southern Ohio at the time.
Thank you for any help you can give.
Maybe she marinated it in Catalina salad dressing?
Pittsburgher here! Heinz 57 sauce I bet! Yum!!!
Back then Heinz was very popular and people were using this for almost everything they cook. I bet you that she just used this sauce right out of the bottle and put it in the meat overnight. If you are interested in some good marinade sauces they have so many delicious ones online these days. I love the ones that use a lot of garlic and ginger in them. They sure make the food taste wonderful.
Add a delicious oriental flavor to your meat or veggies before putting them on the grill. This page contains teriyaki marinade recipes.
You can use a less expensive cut of meat with a tenderizing marinade, to create a delicious main dish. This is a page about tough meat marinade.
Boil 8-10 large spears asparagus until crisp-tender. Cool. Peel and slice four large avocados. Arrange in 8x8 inch shallow dish. Cover with marinade and refrigerate 3-4 hours.
