What Is Marinade and How Can I Use It?

Wondering what to do with marinade? This guide covers how to pick it, cook it, store it, and swap it, plus 12 recipes to put it to work.

Recipes using marinade

There are 12 recipes that contain this ingredient.

6 Minute Veggie Salad

Feel too lazy to cook? Try a quick delicious and refreshing salad, serve it with a few slices of crusty bread. A quick simple and tasty yet light meal within about 6 minutes.

Mesquite Grilled Chicken with Pineapple Salsa

Mesquite grilled chicken with pineapple salsa: smoky grilled chicken breasts topped with a bright salsa of crushed pineapple, red pepper, scallion, lime, and soy. Tropical, fast, and full of flavor.

Noisettes D'Agneau

Noisettes d'agneau with marinated rack of lamb medallions cooked in a reduced wine-rosemary sauce, topped with blanched and butter-sauteed garlic cloves. A New Orleans masterchef-level dish.

Vegetable Kabobs

Grilled vegetable kabobs: pre-cooked eggplant, carrots, and potatoes plus raw zucchini, peppers, onions, and mushrooms threaded onto skewers, herb-marinated and grilled low and slow. Vegetarian BBQ win.

Penne Alla Malefemmina

Penne alla malefemmina, a no-cook Southern Italian pasta sauce of raw tomatoes, kalamata olives, capers, and garlic marinated in olive oil. Tossed with hot pasta or served cold as pasta salad.

Honey Soy Baked Salmon

Honey soy baked salmon is a 2-ingredient weeknight dinner, flaky fillets glazed with sweet-salty marinade and baked hot for caramelized edges. On the table in under 30 minutes.

Mooney's Sticky Monster Bones

Sticky monster beef ribs marinated overnight, hickory-smoked low over a beef broth drip pan, then basted with mesquite BBQ sauce until the bark turns glossy black. Backyard beef ribs done right.

Kentucky Turkey & Bacon Brochettes

Kentucky turkey and bacon brochettes marinated in a bourbon, Dijon mustard, brown sugar, and scallion blend, wrapped in bacon, and grilled until crispy. Smoky, sweet, and sharp with a Southern bourbon kick.

Ozark-Style Venison Stroganoff

Ozark venison stroganoff marinates deer cubes, browns them in shortening, then simmers with mushrooms in cream of tomato soup before finishing with sour cream. Hunter's-style game stew over rice or potatoes.

Cauliflower with Beef Szechwan Style

Sherry-marinated beef stir-fried with cauliflower, roll-cut carrots, and black mushrooms in a Szechuan peppercorn sauce with black bean paste and Chinkiang vinegar. Authentic wok cooking with serious depth of flavor.

Sesame Chicken (Chinese New Year)

Crispy sesame chicken just like takeout: chicken cubes in a light, crackly batter deep-fried golden, then coated in a glossy sweet-and-tangy sesame sauce and showered with toasted sesame seeds. Serve over rice.

Sauerfleisch (Boeuf a la Mode)

Sauerfleisch, a German sauerbraten-style pot roast where beef marinates two days in a tangy brine, then braises tender in a dark, sweet-sour roux gravy. Serve with potato or bread dumplings.

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