The World's Best All-Purpose Meat Marinade

Two steaks on Grill after being marinated.

5 from 16 votes

The World's Best All-Purpose Meat Marinade

This versatile meat marinade adds so much flavor to your meat. It helps to tenderize and infuse your steak, pork chops, or chicken with taste plus making it tender.

Prep Time5

Total Time10

Course: Main Course Meat

Cuisine: American

Servings: servings

Calories: 179kcal

Author: Marisa Franca @ All Our Way

Equipment

Ingredients

⅔ cup olive oil
⅔ cup soy sauce
10 garlic cloves minced
6 tablespoon light brown sugar
4 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
4 tablespoon hot sauce
2 tablespoon dijon mustard
2 tablespoon apple cider vinegar *** see notes
2 teaspoon red pepper flakes
1 teaspoon black pepper

Instructions

Add all of the ingredients to a medium size glass bowl.
Using an immersion blender, blend all of the ingredients together.
Pour the marinade into a glass jar and screw on the lid. Let the flavors meld in refrigerator overnight.
When ready to use, place the meat in a zip lock bag. Pour enough of the marinade over the meat so that it is covered with the seasoning.
Marinate for at least 1 hour or up to 24 hours. The longer it marinates, the better the seasoning penetration.
If you're marinating chicken, marinate under 2 hours. The texture of the meat does not do well with long marinates in acidic liquids such as vinegars or citrus.

Notes

The main ingredients in a marinade is the oil and acid. But if you wish to experiment there are many variations you can try.

Instead of the olive oil base, try truffle, peanut, sesame, walnut, grape, or chile oil. You can also use milk, coconut milk, buttermilk, or yogurt. Buttermilk and yogurt is excellent to use with chicken.

Instead of apple cider vinegar, try wines, beers, balsamic and flavored vinegars, lemon or lime juice, yogurt.

The seasonings are wide open going from Asian flavored to Italian and Mexican. Use fresh or dried herbs, spices, and chile peppers. Also onions, shallots, garlic, ginger, and citrus zest. Experiment with prepared condiments such as mustard, ketchup, chili sauce.

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