All Around Marinade

Matts Lotus's Note:

This is an excellent marinade that Matt taught me, and I modified (as I do with most of my recipes) I have used it on ribs, pork chops, steaks, and chicken. It always leaves the meat very tender... enough so that we were able to cut it with a plastic knife at a camp out with my family. This recipe can make anywhere from 2 to 6 depending on the size of the cuts of meat you are marinading!

• Total Time: 5 mins
• Prep Time: 5 mins
• Cook Time: 0 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 2

• 1 (18 ounce) bottle Italian dressing
• ½ cup rice vinegar (I like to use the flavored rice vinegar or a can of beer. I have used Guinness, Miller high life, an)
• 1 tablespoon Mrs. Dash seasoning mix , blend (you can use any of the flavors I have used most of them, whichever your prefer)
• ¼-½ cup brown sugar (alter to your taste less is bitter more is sweeter )
• 1 -2 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
• 1 -2 tablespoon soy sauce
• 1 tablespoon fresh ground pepper (optional)
• 2 tablespoons jalapeno juice (optional, Matt and I like spicy food)

Directions:

1. Mix all of the ingredients together and marinade meat in it for a few hours
2. I use a 1 gallon ziplock bag but you can use a bowl or a pan or whatever you like -- I personally like to make the marinade in the morning and let it marinade all day long -- the longer it marinades the more tender and flavorful the meat is --
3. Cook meat as desired:.
4. Bake - I suggest baking it for the majority of the time to keep the meat from drying out, and putting it on a different pan for the last few minutes without the juices to sear it and get a glazed effect.
5. Grill - I would suggest brushing the marinade onto the meat while grilling to keep the meat from drying out to much.

Reviews

[FloridaNative]

I used this to marinate skirt steak for stir fry and it came out very nicely. DD didn't like the tanginess from the rice vinegar, but DH and I liked it just fine. Served the steak with brown rice andd slices of yellow squash, zucchini, and onions. Thanks for posting - made for Spring PAC 2011!

[Catnip46]

I used a ranch steak which is kinda tough so I didn't really have any great expectations that anything could make this tender. Besides being tough I'm not fond of the taste of ranch steak either but I went shopping when I was hungry and this meat was on sale. I marinaded the meat for 6 hrs. and to my surprise the meat got more tender then I expected and the taste was really good except next time I'll use this marinade on a different cut of meat and not use as much brown sugar as it was just a wee to sweet for me but not bad.

[Nif]

I liked this marinade a lot. It is easy and has a nice 'punch' to it. I used the jalapeno juice and I liked that too - I didn't find it to be too hot. I only had 2 hours to marinate, so I scored the sirloin steaks and they absorbed the marinade nicely. I also used the full amount of brown sugar and it wasn't too sweet. Very nice! Made for TYM tag game. Thanks Matts Lotus! :)