10 Best Steak Marinade Recipes
We love steaks here and make them often, especially in warm weather on the grill! Sometimes we use a great steak marinade and sometimes we use a simple dry rub.
Our favorite steaks to use a marinade on are the slightly tougher cuts of meat like flank, brisket, London broil and skirt steak. The marinade really adds an amazing flavor and helps to create a more tender steak!
You can also use a marinade on the tender cuts of steak as well like the T-bone steaks, ribeye, filet mignon and NY strip steaks. We often use a dry rub for these, but they are delicious with a great marinade too.
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The marinades
Chimichurri is a classic sauce that can be used on every from steak to vegetables. This recipe from The Forked Spoon is delicious and easy to make. We love it as a marinade but also sometimes serve it as a topping or dipping sauce to go with steak and chicken.) You will love it either way!
Haute and Healthy Living has a delicious marinade for any steak, but especially great for the tougher steaks. It has lemon in it which helps to tenderize the steak but you can use lime instead of lemon. This is a simple one to make and adds an amazing flavor to the meat without overpowering it.
Have you ever tried Jamaican jerk sauce? The first time we tried this one from Recipes From a Pantry we knew that this was going to be one of our favorites! It is a delicious marinade for steaks, chicken and so much more.
Spend With Pennies has a delicious and simple steak marinade that adds a great flavor to your steak. You can use this on any cut of beef, even a roast. It is perfect for any of your tougher cuts as this one will tenderize while it adds flavor.
Gimme Some Grilling has an amazing marinade for steak with red wine. Red wine really helps to tenderize the steak when you marinate it for up to 2 hours. It’s easy to make, adds a great flavor and the alcohol cooks out leaving a perfectly tender steak.
Low Carb Yum has a simple yet delicious keto steak marinade that uses lemon as the tenderizer. It has only a few simple ingredients and is quick to put together. It creates a great flavor without being overpowering and can be used on chicken or pork as well.
Another great keto steak marinade is by The Short Order Cook. She uses red wine vinegar to tenderize the meat along with some delicious spices to add an amazing flavor! I love this one on a flatiron steak, but it is delicious on any cut.
We have a delicious marinade that we originally wrote for chicken, but we started to use it for steak as well. It is simple yet tasty and perfect for the tougher cuts of meats. We use lime to tenderize the meat and it is a gluten free steak marinade! It will not overpower your meat but add a great flavor while tenderizing it.
Aubrey’s Kitchen has an amazing Asian marinade that uses pineapple juice and rice vinegar to tenderize the meat! Pineapple adds a great flavor while creating a tender cut of meat. It breaks down the fibers making it melt in your mouth.
Looking for a great Mexican marinade for steaks? Hilda’s Kitchen Blog has an amazing one that has orange and lime juice to tenderize while adding different spices for a great flavor. We have used this on skirt steaks when making fajitas and it is delicious.
Conclusion
We have tried to add a delicious variety for you to choose, they are our favorites! Some are perfect for a keto diet and one is gluten free.
We included some with and without citrus. They all have either vinegar or a citrus (lime, lemon or orange) to tenderize, and one even has pineapple – yum!
I hope you love them as much as we do and that you find your new favorite.
