What’s the best marinade?

[silentstriker]

Well?

For steak - salt and pepper. That’s it. Maybe a little olive oil and garlic. Anything more and you need better steak, or learn to cook it better.

For lamb or beef in curries - overnight marinade with yogurt (full fat not the deranged fat free Greek shite), lemon juice, black pepper, salt, nutmeg, cumin, coriander, ginger, garlic, and Kashmiri red chili powder to taste. A little cinnamon maybe. Bring it to room temperature the next day, and REMOVE excess marinade off meat.

For chicken - nothing. Chicken sucks. Don’t eat it. Unless it’s gizzards, in which case, treat it like proper meat (see above).

 

[GIMH]

Tandoori for chicken

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Salt, vinegar, and tomato sauce with everything.

 

[fredfertang]

What sort of vinegar?

Am keen on Balsamic

 

[silentstriker]

Tandoori for chicken

That’s an oven not a marinade.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

What sort of vinegar?

Am keen on Balsamic

Table.

 

[smalishah84]

Shan tikka masala mixed with a bit of lemon juice and letting it sit in the fridge, exceptional for any grilled, roasted, or baked stuff.

 

[trundler]

Shan tikka masala mixed with a bit of lemon juice and letting it sit in the fridge, exceptional for any grilled, roasted, or baked stuff.

National works better for biryani tho

 

[GIMH]

That’s an oven not a marinade.

Whatever dude you thought curry was gravy

 

[trundler]

He's wrong anyway. Tandoor is the oven. Tandoori would be anything related to the oven so tandoori very much works..

 

[silentstriker]

Whatever dude you thought curry was gravy

I stand by my statement.

Better make a ****ton of it when I come over to your place too. I’m fat and I’m going to drink that **** off the plate.

 

[silentstriker]

He's wrong anyway. Tandoor is the oven. Tandoori would be anything related to the oven so tandoori very much works..

That’s fair.

 

[zorax]

Can't go wrong with soya sauce, garlic, ginger, and a bit of chili. My dad would toss in some whiskey into the marinade too from time to time.

Marinate fish in ginger, scallion, sesame oil and a bit of salt or soya before steaming. Works great.

 

[Athlai]

I was skeptical about this thread as marinade for the most part just makes everything worse. But when the first one mentioned was "salt and pepper" I knew you were a man of culture and taste.

 

[Line and Length]

A satay marinade for chicken.

 

[zorax]

So many people don't remove the excess marinade either

What I like to do sometimes is cook off the excess marinade into a separate sauce that can be served on the side later. Add a few more things to it, try to make it a nice companion to the dish.

 

[GIMH]

He's wrong anyway. Tandoor is the oven. Tandoori would be anything related to the oven so tandoori very much works..

Thank you trundler.