The Best Marinade Ever
- Ready In:
- 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 7
- Serves:
-
4
ingredients
- 1 1⁄2 cups orange juice
- 1⁄2 cup pure olive oil
- 2 tablespoons fresh ginger, grated
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 cup fresh basil leaf, roughly chopped
- 2 tablespoons of fresh mint, chopped
- fresh ground pepper
directions
- Mix all ingredients together.
- Place the fish or meat in the marinade.
- Turn the pieces over several times.
- Keep refrigerated.
- Fish should be marinated for 45 minutes, chicken for at least an hour, and red meats like lamb for several hours.
- When the fish or meat has marinated long enough, heat up your grill, pull the pieces out of the marinade, and season them well with salt and pepper.
- Immediately place on the grill.
- Baste occasionally with the leftover marinade.
- Discard marinade when grilling is complete.
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I'm a meat-and-potatoes kind of girl at heart, and I've only recently started forcing myself to eat vegetables -- I suppose that's what happens when you are raised to believe that a meal isn't really a meal unless you're eating meat! My passion for food started with my parents -- since food is such a focus of Filipino culture, anything was an excuse for cooking a large meal and inviting friends or family over. Cooking, on the other hand, is something I've only recently started enjoying -- I love having adventures in different parts of the world, and when I can't do that, I love having adventures in the kitchen. So I experiment a lot with new recipes and I'm always in search of the perfect version of something.
I moved up to NYC a couple of years ago for work, and it's been heaven. The food in this city is fantastic, and I especially enjoy going out into Queens for ethnic dining. I work at a union full of burly guys who love to eat, so it's nice to be in like-minded company -- the granola vegans at my last non-profit job just didn't understand.
I'm taking ceramics classes and I travel widely -- my next trip is to Egypt, Jordan and Jerusalem in the fall.