Marinades to Spice Up Your Favourite Foods

 

Who doesn't wish to enhance the flavour of their meat? Perhaps one of the easiest ways to spice up and add more flavour to your meat is through adding Marinades spice to the food.

 The marinade is a quick and easy process and helps in bringing out the taste and improving the overall texture of the meat across a varied range of dishes. Also, the process of marinating is very simple and takes hardly a few minutes to execute. To marinate the meat, you need to begin with soaking the meat for several hours.

 What is generally used to marinate the meat?

 The usual elements of a meat marinade are as the ones listed below:

 ● a suitable acid that helps tenderize the meat.

● spices or seasoning as per the flavour that's needed in marinades.

● Oil as a base that glues in all the ingredients together and adds an unparalleled amount of moisture.

The best thing about all these is there are a variety of range Marinades foods. Also, the process of marinating doesn't require anything out of the blue. Marinade mostly uses normal ingredients which are readily available in the kitchen. Some of the most common methods of adding marination are:

 ● Coconut milk

● Galangal

● Lemongrass

● Purple basil

● Chill, if you prefer something hot

 For an added Indian flavoured marinade, you need a variety of spice for food. Being with the experimentation with yoghurt, coriander, lime juice, turmeric,

or mustard seeds. For an added oriental twist, you can also top up the marinade with shiso, mirin, ginger.

 The best part of marinades is that you can add almost any flavour to them. For instance, Mexican flavours are a combination of lime, cumin, garlic of achiote paste, whereas the taste of North Africa can be an amalgamation of honey, lemon juice, cardamom, onion and cinnamon.

 Your choice of ingredients will depend on how you want to marinate the meat to enhance the overall flavour. Also, it should be relevant to the dish that you wish to cook.

 Though mostly unsaid, there are certain tricks to alleviate the overall quality and spicing ability of the marinade. It is generally advised to marinade the meat an evening before and soak the meat overnight for a few hours before cooking. The whole process of marinading adds an unmatched flavour and also helps seal in the moisture all the while rendering it for tasty dishes.