Make Your Own Marinade – 3 Great Ideas

Fancy: orange-vanilla marinade

The marinade tastes delicious with fish, seafood, and poultry.

• For 4 servings you need ½ vanilla pod, ½ bunch of coriander, 1 orange, 2 tablespoons of rapeseed oil, and pepper (cost: approx. 2.75 euros).
• If you don’t like coriander, you can replace it with parsley or dill.
• Halve the vanilla pod and scrape out the pulp with a knife.
• Wash the coriander and chop it up.
• Squeeze the orange.
• Mix all the ingredients with olive oil.
• Finally, season the marinade with pepper.

Delicious with steaks: beer marinade

This hearty marinade also tastes delicious with pork belly and poultry.

• For 4-6 servings you need 2 tablespoons of mustard, 2 vegetable onions, 1 bay leaf, 200 ml of light beer, 20 peppercorns, 5 tablespoons of oil, and a pinch of chili powder (cost: approx. 1.80 euros).
• Peel the onions and cut them into rings.
• Now mix all the ingredients together well.

Nice and spicy: chili-honey marinade

If you like it hot and spicy, this marinade is perfect for your poultry or pork.

• For 6-8 servings you need 200 ml soy sauce, 100 ml honey, 200 ml olive oil, and 1-2 chili peppers (cost approx. 4 euros)
• Halve the chilies and remove the seeds.
• Then chop the pods into small pieces.
• Mix chili with soy sauce and honey.
• Finally, add the oil and mix well again.

How to properly marinate meat

Marinating is very easy. If you pay attention to a few points, your result will be particularly tasty.

• You can marinate all kinds of meat imaginable.
• The longer the meat is in the marinade, the more tender and juicy it becomes.
• It tastes particularly good if you marinate the meat the day before and then leave it covered in the fridge.
• Take the meat out of the fridge about an hour before cooking to allow it to come to room temperature.
• Drain the marinade.
• Dab the meat a little before grilling so that the oil doesn’t catch fire right away.