Achiote Marinade

Submitted by susie cooks

"Achiote paste can be found in the spice section, or meat section, in Mexican markets. I also saw a recipe on Zaar foor it. This is a great marinade for skirt steak, but is also good with pork and chicken."

 

• Ready In: 15mins
• Ingredients: 8
• Yields: 2 cups

ingredients

• 3⁄4 cup achiote paste
• 1 cup orange juice
• 1 cup grapefruit juice
• 1 habanero pepper, seeded, deveined and minced
• 1 teaspoon garlic, minced
• 1 teaspoon toasted cumin seed, ground in a spice grinder
• 1 teaspoon dry Mexican oregano
• 1⁄2 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper

directions

1. Combine all ingredients in a blender. process until thoroughly pureed.

Reviews

[Feej3940]

I used this to marinade some chicken breasts tonight, which I later grilled. Very nice. I used recipe #102398. for the achiote paste. Annatto seeds are new to me, so we are trying some of the different recipes here to see what we think of them . So far, looks like we like them! Thanks for sharing this recipe. Sorry I didn't take a picture - I don't know where my head was. Hopefully others will catch on to this very nice spice.