The marinade for meat makes it extremely tender and juicy. You can prepare tender beef, delicious pork shank or aromatic chicken steaks. There are a number of marinade recipes that are very quick and easy to prepare. Very common products such as lemon, vinegar, oil, garlic and spices are usually needed. Always mix the products for the desired marinade into a bowl and then add the meat.
The rule is that the longer the meat is marinated for, the more tender it becomes after roasting. If you are going to cook the meat immediately after marinating, you can keep it in the bowl, but if you are going to cook it later, it is best to cover it with foil and leave it in the fridge. The rest of the marinade can also be used as a sauce to spread on the meat during cooking.
If you forgot to marinate the meat, you can do it just before cooking. To do this, just smear it with olive oil and lemon juice. In addition to liquid marinades, you can smear the meat with a spicy pepper paste just before roasting.
To make a meat marinade truly successful, you need to know that every good marinade has three main components - spices, fat and acid. Acid is important in order to make the meat tender. It can be vinegar, pineapple, beer, cream, wine, tomatoes, milk, lemon juice. The options for the spices are many - herbs, garlic, curry, black pepper, onion and various sauces - tabasco, mustard, ketchup, honey and others. The fat is most often oil.
Check out some great marinade recipes: Chicken Marinade, Pork Marinade and Steak Marinade.
