How to marinate your MEAT!

Lumberg

Buy some chicken/lean beef/etc., a garlic press, some garlic(whole), some ginger(Root), and some soy sauce (Tamari for the advanced chefs).

Trim that fat.

Put the trimmed meat in a large Ziploc bag.

Peel some garlic cloves (about 2 cloves per serving)

Smush the garlic over the meat in the open bag--watch that juice drizzle all over the luscious meat

Chop up the ginger (no need to peel it) into garlic-press-sized pieces. Smush IT in the garlic press, over the meat. You will have to clear out the press with a knife between pressings. Throw everything in the bag.

Dash some soy sauce into the bag.

Stick the bag in your fridge and pan-fry that MEAT as needed.

YUM!

JC

Bicho

BUMP

Lord_Suston

1) one tablespoon of vinegar for pork or beef this breaks down the fiber and will make the meat easier to cook.
2) crush 2-4 cloves of garlic depending on tast
3) 2-3 tablespoons of soy sauce per lbs
4) some black pepper
5) some hot sause if you like no more than one tablespoon before meat is cooked.

Let the meat sit in your frig for at least half and hour. Make sure the meat is cut small enough to be easily cook. put into a pan for about 5-10- minutes on high and mix with other vegetables and serve on rice.

Intramuscular

Mushed up Onion is nice to add on the meat.

gymrat

The key to red meat is adding something acidic, like lemon juice....just a tiny bit though.

Lumberg

Why's that? Does acid have a certain effect on the proteins in red meat?

JC

Lord_Suston

it tenderizes the meat for some reason i don't know but all the places i have worked have taught me to either use lemon juice or vinegar

Lumberg

So you're talking more from a culinary standpoint than a scientific one, right? But it's not hard to imagine that
tenderer meat==some of the protein bonds are broken down.

Ginger I know has a similar effect. I might try marinating in vinegar-ginger sauce for a combo. Kind of like the gari ginger they give you with sushi--that's picked in vinegar, right?

JC

Spectre

My marinade is so similar its not worth posting. In a quick pinch try out the Yoshida's marinade found at most large bulk stores like Sam's club. This works good with chicken as well..

Peace

Spectre