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World’s Best Steak Marinade adds so much flavor to your juicy steak. It helps to tenderize and infuse the steak with flavor and creates the best steak ever!
Steak isn’t just for fancy meals, you can have it any time of the week. Pair it with a Salad, Potatoes, and Asparagus for a meal that is restaurant-worthy, but better!
Steak Marinade Recipe
Today I am sharing with you the BEST steak marinade! My mouth is watering just thinking about it! Steak can be a little intimidating to cook, it used to be for me. I think it was because steak is usually so spendy and I never wanted to mess it up. We all know that when steak is done right, it is insanely delicious. With this marinade, I have created a foolproof way of guaranteeing your steak will taste heavenly. It is the perfect blend of spices and herbs that enhances the natural flavor of steak without being overpowering.
If you do not have an air fryer to cook your steak then cooking steak in the skillet is the way to go! It puts that perfect sear on the outside and then you can watch it carefully and let it cook to your desired doneness. Adding butter at the end just adds that extra touch that is crazy luscious. This marinade is perfect for grilled steaks too, and I love grilling as much as the next person, but this way I can cook it all year long, even when it is too cold outside to grill. You have to try this marinade and cooking it in a skillet too!
What Do you Use to Marinate a Steak?
This steak marinade is packed with dried herbs, soy sauce, Worcestershire sauce, olive oil, lemon juice, and garlic. These ingredients all come together to give you such amazing flavor and the perfectly cooked juicy steak!
- Soy sauce: Adds a bit of salty and tons of flavor.
- Lemon juice: Adds acidity to tenderize and flavor.
- Olive oil: Help seal in juiciness.
- Worcestershire sauce: One of the best umami flavors for beef.
- Minced garlic: Use fresh for the best tasting.
- Italian seasoning: A go-to combination of outstanding herbs.
- Pepper and Salt: To taste, but do not leave it out.
- Red pepper: Adds a bit of spice.
- Steaks: I used rib eye, New York is also great
- Butter: Butter is truly the best thing to cook steak in! Hands down!
- Chopped Parsley: Adds a pop of color.
Let’s Marinate Some Steak!
The aroma this mix gives off before you add the meat is insane. You know it’s going to be incredible just from by the smell of it. Mix in a small bowl, whisk together soy sauce, lemon juice, olive oil, Worcestershire sauce, minced garlic, Italian seasoning, pepper, salt, and a pinch of red pepper. Add steaks to a resealable zip lock bag or large bowl and pour the marinade on top. Marinate for 2 hours or overnight.
To Make the Steaks in a Skillet
- Cook it: Turn the skillet to high heat. Add the steaks. Cook on each side for 3 minutes or until outside is browned. Reduce heat to medium-high. Cook the steaks to the desired doneness. Mine took about 10 minutes flipping 3 times to get a medium-well.
- Top it: Top with butter and garnish with fresh parsley if desired.
How Do you Make a Steak Tender?
There are two ways that I use to make a steak tender. Acidic tenderizers are a great way to get a tender steak. I include lemon juice in my marinade to help to soften the steak. it breaks down the tough fibers in the meat. If you are starting out with an already tough cut of meat, I will also break down the fibers by pounding the meat before I cook it.
Why is my Steak Tough and Chewy?
The muscle fibers in meat have to be broken down and the proteins turned into gelatin in order to make meat tender. This happens very quickly over high heat with tender cuts of steak like filet mignon, but tougher cuts of meat require slow cooking, usually in some sort of liquid to keep them from drying out.
How Long do you Marinate Steak?
As soon as your marinade is ready to go you add your steaks and let them soak up all of that delicious flavor. It also tenderizes as it marinates. The minimum to let these steaks marinate is 2 hours, but can also be marinated overnight. The flavor is seriously out of this world!
How Do you Know your Steak is Done?
Everyone loves their steak done to different degrees and using a thermometer is the way to go to make sure you cook it just right. Remember too, when your steak is taken off the heat it will continue to cook for a minute or two, raising the temperature about 2-4 degrees more. I often remove my meat right before it reaches that perfect temp.
| Steak Doneness | Internal Temperature | Center Color |
|---|---|---|
| Medium Rare | 130-135 °F | Pink |
| Medium | 135-145 °F | Some Pink |
| Well | 145-155 °F | Sliver of Light Pink |
| Well Done | 155-165 °F | Mostly Brown |
Cooking Steak in a Skillet Tips
I love to cook my steaks in a skillet. It only takes minutes to get that crispy brown edge and medium cooked inside. But you can also use this recipe to grill. It is perfect for both. It is going to give your steaks the very best flavor!
- Cast Iron: The best skillet to use is a cast-iron skillet. It distributes the heat evenly and browns steak beautifully.
- Heat it up: Use the largest burner on your stove and heat up the cast iron before placing the steaks in. This will ensure I good crusty sear. The oil in the pan should be shimmering almost to the smoking point.
- Dab the Steak: With a paper towel, gently dab the steaks dry. Do not worry you will not take off marinade that is already saturated into the meat. When the meat is dry it will make sure there is a good sear, creating that incredible flavorful crust. When they are moist, they tend to steam instead of sear, which will cause them to be soft.
- Add The Butter Last: Place the butter in the pan right before you are ready to take them out. You do not want your butter to burn, which it can easily with the high heat.
- Let it rest: However you cook your steak be sure to let it rest 5-15 minutes for the juices to redistribute throughout the steak. This way you won’t end up with all the good flavor on your plate instead of inside the meat.
More Delicious Steak Recipes
Steak is juicy, tender and so good! If you love steak, you know that you do not need much to make it taste good. A good piece of meat will be naturally full of flavor. There are so many ways though to add flavor, texture and create fabulous meals with steak. It is important to compliment steak and not drown it in too much. These recipes are tried and true and taste divine. These are ways to have your steak and enjoy it in different ways too!
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World’s Best Steak Marinade
Ingredients
- 1/3 cup soy sauce
- 1/3 cup lemon juice
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- 1/4 cup Worcestershire sauce
- 1 Tablespoon minced garlic
- 2 Tablespoons Italian seasoning
- 1 teaspoon pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- pinch of red pepper
- 1 1/2 pound steaks I used rib eye, New York is also great
- 2 tablespoons butter
- fresh chopped parsley
Instructions
- In a small bowl, whisk together soy sauce, lemon juice, olive oil, Worcestershire sauce, minced garlic, Italian seasoning, pepper, salt, and a pinch of red pepper.
- Add steaks to a resealable zip lock bag or large bowl and pour the marinade on top. Marinate for 2 hours or overnight.
To make the steaks in a skillet:
- Turn the skillet to high heat. Add the steaks. Cook on each side for 3 minutes or until outside is browned. Reduce heat to medium-high. Cook the steaks to the desired doneness. Mine took about 10 minutes flipping 3 times to get a medium well.
- Top with butter and garnish with fresh parsley if desired.
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Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Great marinade! Only note I have is to not add salt as the soy sauce has enough salt. Tastes best on bbq grill.
Delish! Delish! Delish! I have never made a steak before, but decided to buy one and try. Found this marinade and had my 17yo son put it all together while I was at work and put the steak in it. Then when I got home from work I cooked our steak in a pan, WOW!!! Everyone in the house raived about how great the steak & marinade was. Told me to keep this recipe and make it again. Thank you for sharing your recipe for everyone to enjoy.
KG
Loved this recipe, right up until you ruined the steak with “Mine took about 10 minutes flipping 3 times to get a medium-well” 🙁
-While it’s only a matter of opinion that a steak shouldn’t be cooked beyond medium, it’s certainly a matter of fact that you should flip only once, or you toughen the meat.
Lots of great info in this though, thanks for sharing.
Everyone loved this marinade on some very nice ribeyes, medium/well. Cooked in the airfryer 400degrees for 15 minutes, flipping once in-between. Turned out perfect. Had everything on hand, you don’t need A1 for more flavor. Will keep this recipe close by. Thank-you,
JW
My new favorite steak marinade. The whole family loves it. I top it was Kerrygold Herb and Garlic butter and it’s perfection. Don’t cook your steak to medium well though 😉
Delicious! Better than a steakhouse and much cheaper!!! I added the lemon zest to the marinade as well. Definitely making this again!
Just put this together…the marinade tastes delicious…I’ll let you know.
I would like to know if you could refridgerate the marinade and how long it will keep there .
Yes, you can marinate your steak for about 24 hours long.
I love it. Followed the recipe exactly, and got rave reviews. Marinaded for about 6 hours. Delightful. Will definitely be doing this one again.
Amazing recipe, used this so many times now and leave any steak so tender and perfect. Thanks for sharing!
This is hands down my husband’s favorite marinade and his favorite way I cook steak. He requests it for ALL special occasions when I ask him what he wants! I’ve been a vegetarian most of my life and this recipe is super easy to follow and get right every time (as a vegetarian I don’t taste the meat as I cook along the way as I would vegetables so that is very important!). Thank you so much for sharing it!!!
Can I sub the soy sauce for something else?
You can use teriyaki sauce or hoisin sauce.
Wonderfuly tender steak. Not just tasty but eye appealing
I have used this recipe more times than I can count! At first I just did the two hours but then I started doing it overnight and letting them marinate for around 24 hours and OH MY GOSH it’s the most amazing thing I’ve ever cooked myself! My boyfriend now begs me to cook him this every time he comes over and I can proudly tell anyone I know how to make an amazing steak! I add way more garlic than needed because I personally have an addiction to garlic but other than that the recipe is absolutely perfect
Wow… it’s looks absolutely delicious!!!! This is brilliant. Thank you for your post.
Soooo the flavor was amazing!!!!! I usually marinate my steaks in a marinade bag and grill them and they are incredible. My son has never really liked steak so I figured I would try something different. I followed directions perfectly and had an incredibly savory but very chewy and dry in the middle steak. I would use the marinade again but grill them. In defense to this recipe maybe I got a bad cut of meat.