Lemon Herb Marinade For Meat Seafood Or Vegetables Recipes

Steps:

• Using a pair of kitchen shears or a paring knife, cut through shell along the back of each shrimp. Devein shrimp, leaving shells on.
• In a small bowl, combine lemon juice, oil, garlic, rosemary, thyme, 1 teaspoon salt, and 1/2 teaspoon pepper. Reserve 6 tablespoons lemon mixture for serving. Place shrimp and remaining lemon mixture in a resealable plastic bag; seal bag and shake to coat shrimp. Refrigerate 1 hour.
• Heat grill or grill pan to high. Clean and oil grill. Remove shrimp from marinade, wiping off excess. Grill until opaque throughout, 2 to 3 minutes per side. Serve shrimp drizzled with reserved lemon mixture.

Steps:

• Mix all ingredients in dish or plastic Ziploc bag.
• Add meat of your choice (approximately 1 lb of fish or seafood, 1 lb of boneless chicken or 3 1/2 lbs of bone in chicken, 1 lb pork chops).
• Turn to coast with marinade.
• Cover dish or seal bag and refrigerate at least 30 min for seafood and vegetables and no more than 24 hours for chicken or pork.
• Remove meat from marinade; reverse marinade.
• Grill meat as desired, brushing occasionally with marinade.
• Heat remaining marinade to boiling to serve as sauce with grilled meat (with the exeption of the chicken).
• Important to bring the marinade to a full boil for 1 min to destroy any bacteria that may have been transferred back and forth when the marinade was brush on the uncooked meat.

Steps:

• Roughly chop the rosemary leaves, thyme leaves, and lavender flower/s or leaves (if using).
• Place herbs, salt and pepper into a mortar and pound with a pestle, until herbs are crushed and fragrant.
• Add garlic and lemon zest and pound until garlic makes a paste - add a little of the olive oil if necessary.
• Now stir in the lemon juice and the olive oil and mix together.
• Pour mixture into a small screwtop jar. Fix lid securely and shake vigorously until mixture thickens and emulsifies.
• Pour over meat, cover and marinade in the refrigerator for 1-2 hours before cooking.
• Pour any marinade left in the bowl over the meat while it cooks.

Steps:

• Drop everything into a food processor as is. Rind on lemon and all. The finished product is a thick paste. If you want to thin it out, you can add more olive oil, or omit the rind of the lemons. I prefer the paste and dip each piece of meat in the food processor by hand before transferring to the Ziploc bag to make sure it's well coated. Depending on what I'm marinating, I will let it sit in the mixture for 24-72 hours. I've used it in as few as 6 hours and it's still excellent.
• Because this is more of a paste than a marinade, you can stretch it a long way. While this only yields a few cups, it is more than enough for a pack of boneless skinless breasts and family pack of pork chops.

Steps:

• Mix all ingredieants well.
• Pour over chicken and marinate at lease 2 hours (or overnight).
• If using fish, only marinate 1/2 hour.
• Grill chicken or fish on B-B-Q, or broil in broiler.
• This makes enough for 6 boneless, skinless chicken breasts.